linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] panic: Disable crash_kexec_post

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Message-ID: <20150713202611.GA16525@fifo99.com>
Date:	Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:26:11 +0000
From:	dwalker@...o99.com
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-metag@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] panic: Disable crash_kexec_post_notifiers if kdump
 is not available

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:41:28AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com> writes:
> 
> > You can call panic notifiers and kmsg dumpers before kdump by
> > specifying "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" as a boot parameter.
> > However, it doesn't make sense if kdump is not available.  In that
> > case, disable "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" boot parameter so that
> > you can't change the value of the parameter.
> 
> Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

I think it would make sense if he just replaced "kdump" with "kexec".

Daniel
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