As per your suggestion, I tried this on a kernel not patched by kexec. It works fine on that.
Regards, - Kishore -----Original Message----- From: Eric W. Biederman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 2:42 PM To: Sampathkumar, Kishore (STSD) Cc: Mike Mason; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Needed help to debug this kdump problem on x86_64 systems "Sampathkumar, Kishore (STSD)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried the below suggestion. It doesn't seem to work. > > What I now notice is that, the system reboots immediately on executing > the "memory" in load_segments(). It doesn't ever get to executing > set_idt() and the printk statements I have placed after that. > > Wanted to know: by placing "memory" in load_segments(), you are > essentially inserting a memory barrier, isn't it? So, is this just to > ensure ordered execution of memory store operations involved in code > before and the code after "memory"? Does this work if you try this on a kernel where you don't have to patch kexec in? Eric
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