Zou, Nanhai wrote:

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>>>> 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?
>> You might want to just check out Linus' git tree and work from there,
>> a couple of kexec changes have gone in there recently.
>>
>> I've attached 3 that may be useful to you, though to be honest
>> I doubt any of them fix problems that you are seeing.
>>
> 
> Oops, I think the first patch  [IA64] register memory ranges in a consistent 
> manner is important..., 
> I posted the almost same patch 2 months before, but unfortunately that patch 
> was missed in 2.6.20 release.
> Jay, I guess that patch will fix your problem.

That patch fixed the "Bad page state" errors and i do not see
"put_kernel_page: page at 0xe0... not in reserved memory" messages
any more, but the "Bad pte" error still haunts me. The other
two patches do not look like related.

I will try Linus' git tree tomorrow as Horms suggested.

Thanks, both of you!

Cheers,
 - jay

> 
> Thanks
> Zou Nan hai
> 
> 
>  
> 

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