From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761008AbYDNOqT (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:46:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757140AbYDNOqK (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:46:10 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:60231 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752330AbYDNOqJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:46:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:46:34 +0200 From: Bernhard Walle To: Neil Horman Cc: Vivek Goyal , Andrew Morton , nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, k-miyoshi@cb.jp.nec.com, greg@kroah.com, kdb@oss.sgi.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, Takenori Nagano , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap , "Eric W. Biederman" , Keith Owens Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] add new notifier function ,take3 Message-ID: <20080414164634.190e3e0e@strauss.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20080414144228.GD1193@hmsendeavour.rdu.redhat.com> References: <47FF190B.6030406@ah.jp.nec.com> <20080411210751.e4a468b2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080414134622.GB6941@redhat.com> <20080414144228.GD1193@hmsendeavour.rdu.redhat.com> Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Neil Horman [2008-04-14 10:42]: > > I know it doesn't particularly relate to this patch, but FWIW, for cases like > failover, I've inserted infrastrucutre in the userspace part of kdump for > Fedora/RHEL to support this sort of thing. We can run arbitrary scripts righte > before and after a capture so that notifications can be sent to remote nodes in > a much safer fashion than using the notifier chain after a panic. But that doesn't help if you want to use a debugger (KDB, KGDB). Bernhard