On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 01:02:03PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote: > There are certain types of crashes induced by faulty hardware in which > capturing crashing kernel's memory (through kdump) makes no sense (or > sometimes > dangerous). > > A case in point, is unrecoverable memory errors (resulting in fatal machine > check exceptions) in which reading from the faulty memory location from the > kexec'ed kernel will cause double fault and system reset (leaving no > information for the user).
Prasad, I am just trying to remember what was wrong with Andi's approach of disable MCE while copying the dump? Thanks Vivek _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
