[Bug] Kdump does not work when panic triggered due to MCE

[WANG Cong]

On Mon, 09 May 2011 22:33:36 +0530, K.Prasad wrote:

> That's interesting! Assuming that these are not software induced MCEs
> but panic() calls invoked due to unrecoverable memory errors in a
> physical machine, did you experience any situation where the kdump
> kernel hung/rebooted due to a second MCE (triggered while reading the
> faulty memory location belonging to the first kernel)?


Someone discussed this with me inside RH, is disabling MCE
checking in the second kernel an acceptable solution?

> We're contemplating a solution on the similar lines (refer the
> description of 'slim' kdump at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/4/396) to
> create a 'crash tool readable coredump containing a message that
> indicates the cause of the crash as MCE (and not any data from the old
> memory).
> 

You might want to try use other way instead of memory to store
the log of the first kernel, for example, mtdoops.