Re: [Fastboot] [RFC][PATCH] Add missing notifier before crashing

["Akiyama, Nobuyuki" <akiyama.nobuyuk@jp.fujitsu.com>]

On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:36:13 +0200
Preben Traerup <Preben.Trarup@ericsson.com> wrote:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
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> >Preben Traerup <Preben.Trarup@ericsson.com> writes:
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> >>Since I'm apperantly not the only one left with this choice I rather prefer a
> >>solution
> >>made in public, that is known to be "bad" in some (well known) situations than
> >>each and everybody implements their own solution to the same problem.
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> >It is certainly worth discussing.
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> >Eric
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> To handle the contradiction of adding crash notifier to kexec and 
> maintaining kexec reliability
> I suggest adding a flag to Kconfig
> ENABLE_CRASH_NOTIFIER
> 
> This removes any code in the critical path for people not needing crash 
> notification.

I am just thinking same thing, but one point is different.
To select policy by Kconfig is not flexible. If we want to change policy,
we have to rebuild the kernel. I don't think that distributors release
the kernels for each policy.

Instead of Kconfig, how about using proc filesystem. e.g. kdump_safe.
If kdump_safe is 1, crash notifier will not be called.
If kdump_safe is 0, crash notifier will be called.  

Regards,

Akiyama, Nobuyuki