[PATCH] kdump: Fix for machine checkstop on DMA fault

Haren Myneni haren at us.ibm.com
Thu Mar 23 15:30:26 EST 2006


Paul, If you are OK with this fix, please send it upstream.

Thanks
Haren

- Some machines checkstop on dma protection fault for ongoing DMA left 
in the first kernel. Since, we do not shutdown devices before the kdump 
boot, let them continue DMA to old kernel space.

Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren at us.ibm.com>



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