From: Horms Subject: Re: [PATCH] console: allow a panic to be triggered from the xen console Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:48:25 +0900 Message-ID: <20060711004823.GF10443@verge.net.au> References: <20060515074734.GA15410@verge.net.au> <20060707010949.GA10332@verge.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Keir Fraser Cc: Magnus Damm , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:50:46PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote: > > On 7 Jul 2006, at 02:09, Horms wrote: > > >this is a resend of this patch, which I believe is a simple but > >useful feature. I have used it extensively to test the kdump > >patches which I have been developing with my colleague Magnus Damm. > >It is probably useful for other purposes too, and is analogous > >to the trigger crashdump feature of Linux's sysrq. > > On Linux the sysrq only does anything if kexec is in use and a crash > image has been provided (crash_kexec). Perhaps you should do the same > and make this part of the Xen portion of your kexec patches? Sure, I can do that. Though a general panic button seemed more useful to me at the time. -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/