Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:20:41 +0530
From: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
To: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fastboot@osdl.org
Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>, mbligh@aracnet.com,
       ebiederm@xmission.com, litke@us.ibm.com
Subject: kexec based crash dumping
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Hi Andrew,

The patches that follow contain the kexec based crash dumping implementation.
Based on feedback received last time, we have made several changes. Some of
them are:

- The dumping kernel now boots from a non-default location. This is possible
  due to Eric's patch which allows i386 kernels to boot from a non-default
  location. This change means that we need two different kernels to get this
  setup. The documentation patch has complete details on how to do this.
- We can now choose whether or not to dump from panic. The documentation
  patch has details on this as well.
- The linear view is now called oldmem.
- Changes as per the code review comments from the previous posting.

The patches correspond to 2.6.9-rc1-mm5.

Kindly review these patches and let me know your thoughts.

Regards, Hari
-- 
Hariprasad Nellitheertha
Linux Technology Center
India Software Labs
IBM India, Bangalore
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