Jay Lan wrote: > Jay Lan wrote: >> Jay Lan wrote: >>> Horms wrote: >>>> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 07:07:14PM -0800, Jay Lan wrote: >>>>> I found this patch from Nan-hai was missing in your git tree. >>>>> I do not have the url of his original posting, but here is the >>>>> content. :) >>>> Thanks, I have applied this. >>>> >>>> This is actually the second time its been applied, unfortunately it got >>>> reverted as part of the crash_create_elf64_headers() patch, >>>> f038d30bff8510a1df1e72af08db1766581d1f2c. >>> I found problem in the crash_create_elf64_headers() patch more than >>> this one. For example, when calculating the size, the nr_cpus should not >>> be a long. It is an int. It will cause problem only when initializing >>> the crash utility. >>> >>> However, even after reverting f038d30bff8510a1df1e72af08db1766581d1f2c >>> i still had problem in booting up a crashdump kernel on SN platform. >>> I saw many many "Bad state" and "Bad pte" errors, probably when trying >>> to create the vmcore. >> BTW, i did my testing with 2.6.20 kernel and the kexec-tools-testing >> tot tree as of early yesterday. > > :( > I just tried 2.6.20 with a "working" kexec (the rhel5 kexec that > worked on rhel5 kernel), but it showed > put_kernel_page: page at 0xe000003018b44000 not in reserved memory > put_kernel_page: page at 0xe000003018b44000 not in reserved memory > put_kernel_page: page at 0xe000003018b3c000 not in reserved memory > put_kernel_page: page at 0xe000003018b3c000 not in reserved memory > put_kernel_page: page at 0xe000003018b3c000 not in reserved memory > put_kernel_page: page at 0xe000003018b3c000 not in reserved memory > put_kernel_page: page at 0xe000003018b3c000 not in reserved memory > put_kernel_page: page at 0xe000003018b3c000 not in reserved memory > > and followed by tons of "Bad page state" and "Bad pte" errors.
It took a long long time, but the kdump kernel eventually came up. What essential IA64 patches do i need (besides the zero-size-vmcore) for kexec/kdump to work in 2.6.20? Thanks, - jay _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
