On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 08:19:45PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx writes: > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:41:28AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> > >> > You can call panic notifiers and kmsg dumpers before kdump by > >> > specifying "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" as a boot parameter. > >> > However, it doesn't make sense if kdump is not available. In that > >> > case, disable "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" boot parameter so that > >> > you can't change the value of the parameter. > >> > >> Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > I think it would make sense if he just replaced "kdump" with "kexec". > > It would be less insane, however it still makes no sense as without > kexec on panic support crash_kexec is a noop. So the value of the > seeting makes no difference. Can you explain more, I don't really understand what you mean. Are you suggesting the whole "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" feature has no value ? Daniel
