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Re: how to make kernel do system dump ?

To: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: how to make kernel do system dump ?
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 20:45:37 +0100
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>, Hari Kannan <hkannan@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Tom Morano <tjm@xxxxxxx>, hiren_mehta@xxxxxxxxxxx, lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:36:34AM -0800, Matt D. Robinson wrote:
> 
> Cool.  We figured it was broken behavior -- we'd get messed up stack
> pages for some dumps where scheduling took place.  It was my
> original understanding that this wouldn't happen, but then, 2.2 has
> a number of broken issues.

You should probably only call the kernel dumper after the stop IPI sending
has finished, otherwise the other CPUs may still schedule in 2.4


-Andi

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