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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705250939210.6292@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 May 2007 09:45:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Chris Newport <crn@...unix.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Cherwin R. Nooitmeer" <cherwin@...il.com>,
	linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org,
	Robert de Rooy <robert.de.rooy@...il.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Kristian H?gsberg <krh@...planet.net>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Marcus Better <marcus@...ter.se>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, jlan@....com
Subject: Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions v2

On Fri, 25 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> the image".  But we're not - kernel developers don't know how to turn the
> thing on in $RANDOM_DISTRO, testers have no experience with the feature
> and kernel developers don't have experience handling the crash images.

Well, we for instance have problems with huge crash dumps. Its even a 
challenge if the machine has only a few gigabytes of main memory.
 
> And I'm not sure that the (required) "don't dump user memory and pagecache"
> feature has been implemented yet?

A colleague of mine is still working to get it to work just right on IA64.
He does it full time. sigh. Jay what is the status on that?

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