Software: 1. Suse Linux SLES 9 SP1 2. kernel linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm1 3. Kexec-tools-1.101 + kdump patch 4. FSRacer - a simple test script doing loads of filesystem operations like creat/open/read/write/link lots of files 5. spinlock testmodule to force spinlock deadlock with irq disabled. Test-procedure: - Ran test suite FSracer over LVM partition and the test ran without failures. Forced system hang by inserting spinlock test module and then invoked kernel panic with sysrq-c. Secondary kernel booted properly without any issues. I was able to take the dump using sysrq keys.