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

From: Akinobu Mita
Date: Fri Nov 19 2004 - 22:55:40 EST


On Saturday 20 November 2004 08:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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?

Though I always genarate a panic intentionally on normal UP box,
(enable panic_on_oops, and generate kernel NULL pointer dereference)
It allways boot second-kernel successfully.

# gdb <first-kernel> -c /proc/vmcore
...

"up" or "down", and it displays the correct local/global values with "print"





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