Re: [Crash-utility] [Patch 1/4][kernel][slimdump] Add new elf-note of type NT_NOCOREDUMP to capture slimdump
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 09:42:19PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote:
The problem, as pointed out by Borislav Petkov in a different mail,
is that
we might end up capturing a vmcore containing corrupted data when the
same is not required for analysing the cause of the crash.
Of course, all this is assuming that reading the faulty memory with MCE
disabled is harmless. However, the effect of a read operation in this
case is undefined.
Frankly, I don't think that it is undefined - you basically should be
able to read DRAM albeit with the corrupted data in it. However, you
probably best disable the whole DRAM error detection first by clearing
a couple of bits in MC4_CTL_MASK (at least on AMD that should work, I
dunno how Intel does that).
But, regardless, according to Vivek, the "makedumpfile" tool should be
able to jump over poisoned pages and you don't need all the hoopla above
at all, right?
Thanks.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.