On Thursday, March 03/29/18, 2018 at 23:53:43 +0530, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 07:07:43PM +0300, Alex Vesker wrote: > > This is a proposal which will allow access to driver defined address > > regions using devlink. Each device can create its supported address > > regions and register them. A device which exposes a region will allow > > access to it using devlink. > > Hi Alex > > Did you see the work Rahul Lakkireddy has been doing? > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10305935/ > > It seems like these are similar, or at least overlapping. We probably > want one solution for both. >
We're already collecting hardware snapshots when system is live with ethtool --getdump (which devlink tool is now trying to do). We are now in the process of adding support to collect hardware snapshots during kernel panic. Thanks, Rahul