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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec_ops struct
The other thing that should be considered here is how utterly 
preposterous the notion of doing in-guest crash dumping is in a system
that contains a hypervisor. The reason for kdump is that on bare metal
there are no other options, but in a hypervisor system the right thing
should be for the hypervisor to do the dump (possibly spawning a clean
I/O domain if the I/O domain is necessary to access the media.)

There is absolutely no reason to have a crashkernel sitting around in
each guest, consuming memory, and possibly get corrupt.

-hpa

--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.



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