[PATCH v2] Add call to non-crashing cores through IPI
Mika Westerberg
mika.westerberg at iki.fi
Thu Nov 25 03:51:36 EST 2010
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:28:28AM +0100, Per Fransson wrote:
> v2 changes:
> * the interrupts of the calling core are no longer disabled
> before performing the IPI
This version information should go after the commit message below
the '---' line.
> ---
>
> When kexec is used to start a crash kernel the other cores
> are notified. These non-crashing cores will save their state
> in the crash notes and then do nothing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Per Fransson <per.xx.fransson at stericsson.com>
I tested this on UP machine (I don't have access to any SMP hardware) -
it didn't break anything and the crashdump works perfectly.
Regards,
MW
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