Re: [PATCH] kdump: Fix for boot problems on SMP

[Andrew Morton]

Akinobu Mita <amgta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

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