On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Keith Owens wrote:
> I am back from vacation and am now working on a common 'crash stop'
> synchronization interface that can be used by all the debug[*] tools,
> instead of everybody inventing their own and tripping over each other.
> Obviously it is based on the KDB patch, but it will be generic enough
> that anybody can use it.
> 
> [*] Using the term 'debug' generically here.  It can be a debugger like
>     kdb, kgdb, nlkd or a crash dump tool like lkcd, crash or kexec.
>     They all have the same synchronization requirements, stop all cpus
>     using NMI/INIT where necessary and save the state of all the cpus
>     for later diagnosis.

Will this allow to have LKCD and kexec/kdump enabled in the same kernel,
selectable by the user at boot time (via a kernel command-line option,
for example)?

That would be nice to have for a transition period from LKCD towards
kexec/kdump while the later matures.

Gerald
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