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Re: [Xen-devel] AHCI question

To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] AHCI question
From: Kamala Narasimhan <kamala.narasimhan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:45:29 -0500
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> I think you are better of asking on the ahci-devel, and as well folks
> on the kdump mailing list as they had to wrestle with these kinds of
> issues already.

Is there a ahci-devel list I am unaware of?  In the mean time, I
managed to pepper some of the Linux storage list with the same
question.  No dice yet.

>
> Thought .. why not use the kdump kernel?

Per folks more knowledgeable in kdump/kexec etc., here are some advantages -

1) This approach doesn't have the same resource constraint as that of
kdump approach like setting aside memory.
2) This would be more reliable on systems that uses AHCI.

Also, in the long run this component could be turned into one of the
many lowest level pluggable storage interface for crash dump
persistence and other components could be built on top to collect lot
more useful information.

Kamala

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