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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] panic: Disable crash_kexec_post_notifiers if kdump is not available
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:02:08AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 01:59:19PM +0000, dwalker@fifo99.com wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 08:19:45PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > dwalker@fifo99.com writes:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:41:28AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > >> Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.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@xmission.com>
> > > >
> > > > I think it would make sense if he just replaced "kdump" with "kexec".
> > >
> > > It would be less insane, however it still makes no sense as without
> > > kexec on panic support crash_kexec is a noop. So the value of the
> > > seeting makes no difference.
> >
> > Can you explain more, I don't really understand what you mean. Are you suggesting
> > the whole "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" feature has no value ?
>
> Daniel,
>
> BTW, why are you using crash_kexec_post_notifiers commandline? Why not
> without it?

It was explained in the prior thread but to rehash, the notifiers are used to do a switch
over from the crashed machine to another redundant machine.

Daniel


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