linux-kernel - Re: Progress on system crash traces with LTTng using DAX and pmem

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Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:54:58 +0200
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
	lttng-dev <lttng-dev@...ts.lttng.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Progress on system crash traces with LTTng using DAX and pmem

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:51:25PM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> FYI, the main reason why my customer wants to go with a
> "trace into memory that survives soft reboot" approach
> rather than to use things like kexec/kdump is that they
> care about the amount of time it takes to reboot their
> machines. They want a solution where they can extract the
> detailed crash data after reboot, after the machine is
> back online, rather than requiring a few minutes of offline
> time to extract the crash details.

IIRC, on x86 there's no guarantee that your memory content will be
preserved over reboot. BIOS is free to mess with it.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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