> -----Original Message----- > From: Jay Lan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 2007年2月15日 7:49 > To: Horms > Cc: Magnus Damm; Zou, Nanhai; fastboot > Subject: Re: [Fastboot] IA64: a missing patch: fix-paddr-vmcore-ELF > > 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
I don't know..., I will try to see if I can reproduce it here. My first guess is some pages are missed from initialization in memmap_init->virtual_memmap_init->memmap_init_zone. Thanks Zou Nan hai
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