[PATCH] Only allow to set crash_kexec_post_notifiers on boot time

Guilherme G. Piccoli guilherme.piccoli at canonical.com
Tue Sep 22 13:04:30 EDT 2020


On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 11:53 AM <boris.ostrovsky at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 9/22/20 6:58 AM, Philipp Rudo wrote:
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> > AFAIK pstore requires UEFI to work. So what's the point to enable it on non-UEFI
> > systems?
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> I don't think UEFI is required, ERST can specify its own backend. And that, in fact, can be quite useful in virtualization scenarios (especially in cases of direct boot, when there is no OVMF)
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> -boris

There is ramoops backend too - I was able to collect a dmesg in a
cloud provider using that!



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