Comment 12 for bug 1746088

>------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2018-03-05 09:46 EDT-------
>Hi Cascardo,
>
>(In reply to comment #19)
>> We are working on getting those fixes to 16.04, on the -updates repository.
>> But it's not part of 16.04.4.
>
>I am not sure I understood the following statement. Do you mean that the fix will be pushed to >-updates archive after the 16.04.4, thus, it will not make the 16.04.4 cut date?
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>If that is the case, that might cause some impacts, because we are making a release that contains >some known regressions. Should we document it somewhere?
>
>Thank you,
>Breno

Hi, Breno.

From my testing on xenial and hwe kernel, kexec still works and makedumpfile will fallback to cp. Then, one can copy that dump to a bionic system and use crash from bionic to analyze it. Can you test that such a produced dump can be analyzed by crash on bionic? I want to make sure we are still producing valid dumps on most cases, or identify when dumps are not valid. Some of the hwe kernels with kpti backports are not dumpable, but the next artful and hwe release, to be in -proposed by next week, should have that fixed in the kernel side.

I am still investigating the possibility of getting all this into a better situation, but I want to make sure that the current situation is not that bad as you are saying.

Thanks.
Cascardo.