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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5650904d-b616-5ee7-216a-a0ac28d7426d@suse.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=6000 definitions=9397 signatures=668685 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 mlxscore=0 mlxlogscore=959 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1908290000 definitions=main-1910020136 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=6000 definitions=9397 signatures=668685 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1908290000 definitions=main-1910020136 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/2/19 9:42 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: > > I can only guess that the thinking probably was that e.g. external > dumping (by the tool stack) would be more reliable (including but > not limited to this meaning less change of state from when the > original crash reason was detected) than having the domain dump > itself. We could register an external dumper (controlled by a boot option perhaps, off by default) that will call directly into hypervisor with SHUTDOWN_crash. That will guarantee that we will complete the notifier chain without relying on priorities. (Of course this still won't address a possible new feature in panic() that might be called post-dumping) If you think it's worth doing this can be easily added. -boris > True. I guess more control over the behavior needs to be given to > the admin, as either approach has its up- and downsides >