linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v8 0/3] kernel: add support to collect hardware logs in crash recovery kernel

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Date:   Mon, 07 May 2018 16:03:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     rahul.lakkireddy@...lsio.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
        stephen@...workplumber.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, ganeshgr@...lsio.com,
        nirranjan@...lsio.com, indranil@...lsio.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v8 0/3] kernel: add support to collect
 hardware logs in crash recovery kernel

From: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@...lsio.com>
Date: Wed,  2 May 2018 15:17:16 +0530

> This series of patches add new generic framework that enable device
> drivers to collect device specific snapshot of the hardware/firmware
> state of the underlying device in the crash recovery kernel. In crash
> recovery kernel, the collected logs are added as elf notes to
> /proc/vmcore, which is copied by user space scripts for post-analysis.

Eric B., since you've been giving very useful and active feedback on
this series could you please give it a review?

Thank you.