Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754548AbXITKm7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:42:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751456AbXITKmu (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:42:50 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:57772 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750826AbXITKmu (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:42:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:42:49 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "Mukker, Atul" Cc: Linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kdump detection in SCSI drivers Message-ID: <20070920104249.GB12157@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <9738BCBE884FDB42801FAD8A7769C26501B2C44C@NAMAIL1.ad.lsil.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9738BCBE884FDB42801FAD8A7769C26501B2C44C@NAMAIL1.ad.lsil.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 800 Lines: 20 > Hi, > > Is there a standard way for drivers (RAID) to detect if the current > kernel is running in kdump mode? We would like to adjust driver behavior > dynamically when kdump is active by scaling down resources. Perhaps you should be automatically using little resources when little memory is available, or something? With upcomping kjump patches, it is more "interesting" than kdump vs. no kdump. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/