Re: [patch 3/3] kdump: use is_vmcore_usable() and vmcore_unusable() in reserve_elfcorehdr()

2008-07-31 Thread Simon Horman
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:21:52AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:48:43AM +1000, Simon Horman wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:01:31AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:12:38PM +1000, Simon Horman wrote: > > > > After recent changes setting elfc

Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86: Define elfcorehdr_addr in arch dependent section

2008-07-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > o Move elfcorehdr_addr definition in arch dependent crash dump file. This is > equivalent to defining elfcorehdr_addr under CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP instead of > CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE. This is needed by is_kdump_kernel() which can be > used irrespective of t

Re: kdump kernel hangs on 2-way AMD Opteron Intellistation

2008-07-31 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 05:45:50PM +0530, Ankita Garg wrote: > Hi, > > We have been using RT kernel as the kdump kernel for most of our work. > This was working fine on 2.6.21.4-rt10 RT kernel. After which, we moved > over to 2.6.24-rt1 RT kernel. Now, the kdump kernel hangs. Attaching the > compl

Re: [patch 3/3] kdump: use is_vmcore_usable() and vmcore_unusable() in reserve_elfcorehdr()

2008-07-31 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:48:43AM +1000, Simon Horman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:01:31AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:12:38PM +1000, Simon Horman wrote: > > > After recent changes setting elfcorehdr_addr to ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX > > > will cause is_kdump_kernel() to

Re: makedumpfile fails on SGI machine

2008-07-31 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2008-07-31 20:36]: > > Thank you for config file. > > I'm starting the kernel compiling. > I'll investigate this problem the next week. Thanks in advance. Bernhard -- Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development _

Re: makedumpfile fails on SGI machine

2008-07-31 Thread Ken'ichi Ohmichi
Hi Bernhard, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2008-07-31 19:25]: >> >> I tried to reproduce this problem on my machine by using an ia64 linux-2.6.26 >> discontigmem kernel, but it could not do it. makeudmpifle did not fail. >> I want to know whether this problem depends on the kernel o

Re: makedumpfile fails on SGI machine

2008-07-31 Thread Ken'ichi Ohmichi
Hi Bernhard, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2008-07-31 10:46]: >> Bernhard Walle wrote: >>> After debugging that, I didn't find an error code. That address is in >>> fact the beginning of the mem_map of that node, and is in fact not >>> mapped (I verified that in crash). >>> >>> With

Re: makedumpfile fails on SGI machine

2008-07-31 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2008-07-31 10:46]: > Bernhard Walle wrote: > > After debugging that, I didn't find an error code. That address is in > > fact the beginning of the mem_map of that node, and is in fact not > > mapped (I verified that in crash). > > > > With an older kernel and an older makedumpf