RE: [Fastboot] Ia64 kdump patch

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Horms [mailto:horms <at> verge.net.au]
> Sent: 2006年6月26日 16:37
> To: Zou, Nanhai
> Cc: Linux-IA64; khalid_aziz <at> hp.com; fastboot <at> lists.osdl.org
> Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Ia64 kdump patch
> 
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:10:44PM +0800, Zou, Nanhai wrote:
> >   The list is a bit wrong.., I notice that we don't need to dump
> >   unwind segment to core file for stack unwind to work... I am working
> >   on full register dumping and fixing the stack unwind issue.
> 
> Awsome, if you have anything that needs testing I am more than
> happy to help. I am a bit confused about which registers are
> saved and which aren't in the current code, but I figure that mainly
> relates to the code being incomplete.
> 
> >  The PCI device shutdown code was to un-master all the PCI devices so that
> no DMA transaction will be issued by Device. However I think maybe we can remove
> this code because the new kernel memory space is invisible to first kernel.
> 
> Ok, that makes a lot of sense. I was really puzzling over
> why ia64 does this but x86_32 doesn't. I also suspect it
> can be safely removed. Would you like me to test that out
> and send a patch if it works?
> 
  Please.
> > There is another problem that I call irq->end for each devices, it is
> > not safe to touch any pointer belong to previous kernel at the crash
> > time.  But without this code, MPT fusion driver is very likely unable
> > to restart. It sometimes failed to restart even with the irq->end
> > code. This is an open issue need to be fixed.
> 
> Right, that does sound quite nicely, especially as that device is quite
> common, right?
> 
  That is a standard device for some server platforms like Tiger.

Thanks 
Zou Nan hai
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