Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755027Ab0FDJdA (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2010 05:33:00 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:41720 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754469Ab0FDJc6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2010 05:32:58 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=t25T3t4EC3cpkrPm6H7v2jD+Hi0rU22MkLNWCkXXh1vBzG+uxPbhjzYTUD9FluV25Q qZrbZ/sG7Yn2YtCNRrd8veibKox30Ld860R7VryTZmDtCOr9imi6A6T606Ayi7oLJhgG ONQZIT6/1i9aC+55f+W96Fu/G0/Uk/1OxLVc4= Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:32:52 +0200 Message-ID: <87zkzbjg6z.wl%vmayatsk@redhat.com> From: Vitaly Mayatskikh To: Andi Kleen Cc: Vivek Goyal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] kdump: extract log buffer and registers from vmcore on NMI button pressing In-Reply-To: <20100603151347.GC4166@basil.fritz.box> References: <1275464359-1566-1-git-send-email-v.mayatskih@gmail.com> <20100602151611.GA3174@redhat.com> <87iq60a3rh.wl%vmayatsk@redhat.com> <87d3w8xy3q.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <874ohkuwhs.wl%vmayatsk@redhat.com> <20100603151347.GC4166@basil.fritz.box> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/23.2 Mule/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 743 Lines: 26 At Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:13:47 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > NMI would be only needed if the crash kernel is completely > > > hosed too. > > > > That's the case. > > You're saying it booted but is hosed after boot? > > That seems like a very obscure case. Is that really common? As usual: for engineers, who have to deal with it - yes, it is common. > > True. But as a last hope, when nothing else helps, it still may be > > worth trying :) > > It will simply not work. Why? -- wbr, Vitaly -- 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/