Re: IA64: copying /proc/vmcore caused kernel MCA'ed

2008-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Jay Lan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-09]: > > I talked to Jack Steiner about this problem. He said: > The memory at 0xe0600010 is part of Altix "fetchop" space > (AKA mspec). The memory supports only uncached attributes. A normal > "cached" access may cause MCAs. > > The kernel

Re: IA64: copying /proc/vmcore caused kernel MCA'ed

2008-09-09 Thread Jay Lan
Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Jay Lan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-08]: > >> Any input helping me speed up debugging is appreciated. > > I would start with comparing the ELF program headers of /proc/vmcore > which you get with "readelf -l /proc/vmcore" in kdump environment and > the /proc/iomem whic

Re: IA64: copying /proc/vmcore caused kernel MCA'ed

2008-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Jay Lan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-08]: > Any input helping me speed up debugging is appreciated. I would start with comparing the ELF program headers of /proc/vmcore which you get with "readelf -l /proc/vmcore" in kdump environment and the /proc/iomem which kexec uses to set up the ELF core

IA64: copying /proc/vmcore caused kernel MCA'ed

2008-09-08 Thread Jay Lan
When trying to do 'cp /proc/vmcore ...', the kdump kernel MCA'ed. KDB showed me this backtrace: (it is really nice to have kdb working with kdump :)) Entering kdb (current=0xe0303257, pid 3519) on processor 0 due to KDB_ENTER() [0]kdb> bt Stack traceback for pid 3519 0xe0303257