(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #26) > OK, thanks for confirmation. Yes, it sucks, I fully agree. > > The workaround shouldn't be too hard, but it seems that upstream didn't like > the ideal to fall back. Nevertheless, we may fix it inside kdump load.sh > instead of kexec, too. Yes, the kexec upstream doesn't not take my patch on boo#951144 to fallback to old kexec system call. As you said, the kdump script needs to implement the fallback.