[RFC] Kdump and memory error handling

Srivatsa Vaddagiri vatsa at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu May 5 05:25:55 EDT 2011


On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:39:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Handle dumps of corrupted memory regresions:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/mce/crashdump

What happens when mce is disabled and capture kernel reads corrupted memory? 
Does that result in dump having erroneous data in dump?

- vatsa



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