From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261680AbUKSXbc (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:31:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261637AbUKSXaj (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:30:39 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:15598 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261606AbUKSX0s (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:26:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:30:52 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Akinobu Mita Cc: hari@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pbadari@us.ibm.com, varap@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdump: Fix for boot problems on SMP Message-Id: <20041119153052.21b387ca.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200411200256.36218.amgta@yacht.ocn.ne.jp> References: <419CACE2.7060408@in.ibm.com> <200411200256.36218.amgta@yacht.ocn.ne.jp> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Akinobu Mita wrote: > > On Thursday 18 November 2004 23:08, Hariprasad Nellitheertha wrote: > > > There was a buggy (and unnecessary) reserve_bootmem call in the kdump > > call which was causing hangs during early on some SMP machines. The > > attached patch removes that. > > Thanks! I also had the same problem. So.. How is the crashdump code working now? I haven't heard from anyone who is using it and I haven't gotten onto testing it myself. Do we have any feeling for its success rate on various machines, and on its ease of use?