Attachment 311300 Details for Bug 248666 – NEC-supplied patch

[patch] NEC-supplied patch

diskdumputils-reboot-on-err.patch (text/plain), 1.56 KB, created by Guy Streeter on 2008-07-08 17:29:51 UTC

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Created: 2008-07-08 17:29:51 UTC

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>diff -ruNp diskdumputils-1.3.25-1.old/README diskdumputils-1.3.25-1/README
>--- diskdumputils-1.3.25-1.old/README	2007-05-25 16:08:56.000000000 +0900
>+++ diskdumputils-1.3.25-1/README	2007-07-11 13:00:57.000000000 +0900
>@@ -489,6 +489,19 @@ compress:	Specify whether compression fo
> 		dumped without compression.  If the value is 1, memory pages
> 		will be compressed using the deflation algorithm, GZIP.
> 
>+reboot_on_err:	Specify whether the system restarts after diskdump failure or
>+		not.  This feature is only for RHEL4.  The default value is 1,
>+		which means that the system restarts after diskdump detects
>+		some errors to abort.  If the value is 0, the system halts
>+		after diskdump aborts.  It is useful for investigating the
>+		cause of a system panic when a serial console is not enabled
>+		and the only record of the system panic is last messages in the
>+		VGA screen.  Note that in last messages only Call Trace is
>+		perhaps information that relates to the cause of the panic.
>+		And note that if the panic is caused by pushing an NMI button,
>+		last messages in the screen may not show information that
>+		relates to the cause of the panic.
>+
> Partial Dump feature, RHEL4 only, provides a memory collection level that can
> select the amount of physical memory that is dumped.  All of physical memory is
> usually not required to investigate a kernel issue.  Most of physical memory
>@@ -541,6 +554,7 @@ parameters were set up correctly.
>  # sample_rate: 0
>  # block_order: 3
>  # fallback_on_err: 1
>+ # reboot_on_err: 1
>  # allow_risky_dumps: 1
>  # dump_level: 19
>  # compress: 1

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