Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:46:37 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Early use of boot service memory |
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On 11/15/2013 10:30 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > I agree taking assistance of hypervisor should be useful. > > One reason we use kdump for VM too because it makes life simple. There > is no difference in how we configure, start and manage crash dumps > in baremetal or inside VM. And in practice have not heard of lot of > failures of kdump in VM environment. > > So while reliability remains a theoritical concern, in practice it > has not been a real concern and that's one reason I think we have > not seen a major push for alternative method in VM environment. >
Another reason, again, is that it doesn't sit on all that memory.
-hpa
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