Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 15:10:07 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@soft.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]Diskdump - yet another crash dump function
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Hi!

> Although I know about LKCD and netdump, I'm developing yet another crash
> dump, which is a polling-based disk dump as netdump do. Because it
> disables any interrupts during doing dump, it can avoid lots of problems
> LKCD has.
> 
> Main Feature
> - Reliability
>    Diskdump disables interrupts, stops other cpus and writes to the 
>    disk with polling mode. Therefore, unnecessary functions(like
>    interrupt handler) don't disturb dumping.

Hmm... with this, better design of swsusp mifht be feasible.

				Pavel
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