Mike Strosaker wrote: > > At the risk of repeating what others have already said, the PHYP-assistance > method provides some advantages that the kexec method cannot: > - Availability of the system for production use before the dump data is > collected. As was mentioned before, some production systems may choose not > to operate with the limited memory initially available after the reboot, > but it sure is nice to provide the option.
I'm more concerned that this design encourages the user to resume a workload *which is almost certainly known to result in a system crash* before collection of crash data is complete. Maybe the gamble will pay off most of the time, but I wouldn't want to be working support when it doesn't. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
