Re: Makedumpfile help for 5.4.0.rc3 : Arm

2019-11-07 Thread Bhupesh Sharma
Hi Kazu, Sorry I had a lot of back-log to clear after I returned from my holidays and just got to answering this now. On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 2:23 AM Kazuhito Hagio wrote: > > Hi Bhupesh, > > > -Original Message- > > > > I am working on the changes in the vmcoreinfo after the 52-bit VA

RE: Makedumpfile help for 5.4.0.rc3 : Arm

2019-10-30 Thread Kazuhito Hagio
> -Original Message- > If there are corresponding kernel patches being considered to make > makedumpfile work on v8 and v8.x systems I would be interesting in > testing those also. > > > makedumpfile should be able to work with a variety of VAbits as 48, or > 52 settings. Yes,

Re: Makedumpfile help for 5.4.0.rc3 : Arm

2019-10-30 Thread John Donnelly
On 10/30/19 10:08 AM, Kazuhito Hagio wrote: Hi Bhupesh, OK, thanks for letting me know that in your holidays. Have good ones. I just thought that it might be good to share our understanding before posting a kernel patch so that I can do something to support you if need be. Hi John, You see

RE: Makedumpfile help for 5.4.0.rc3 : Arm

2019-10-30 Thread Kazuhito Hagio
Hi Bhupesh, OK, thanks for letting me know that in your holidays. Have good ones. I just thought that it might be good to share our understanding before posting a kernel patch so that I can do something to support you if need be. Hi John, You see that error with my test patch, which is only

Re: Makedumpfile help for 5.4.0.rc3 : Arm

2019-10-29 Thread Bhupesh Sharma
Hi Kazu, Sorry for top posting, but I am on leave for Diwali Holidays and will return to the office in a couple of days. I have the solution/patchset ready and I just need to finish the commit messages to make sure they are self-explanatory for upstream acceptance. I will try to post them and

RE: Makedumpfile help for 5.4.0.rc3 : Arm

2019-10-28 Thread Kazuhito Hagio
Hi Bhupesh, > -Original Message- > > > I am working on the changes in the vmcoreinfo after the 52-bit VA > > > changes from Steve were accepted in Linux 5.4-rc1 ("Support for 52-bit > > > virtual addressing in kernel space”). > > > > > >I don’t see a commit with this title in

Re: Makedumpfile help for 5.4.0.rc3 : Arm

2019-10-22 Thread Bhupesh Sharma
Hi John, On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 12:47 AM John Donnelly wrote: > > Hi Bhupesh > > > On Oct 21, 2019, at 1:53 PM, Bhupesh Sharma wrote: > > > > Hello John, > > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:39 PM John Donnelly > > wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> > >> Kazuhito Hagio asked me to share

Re: Makedumpfile help for 5.4.0.rc3 : Arm

2019-10-21 Thread John Donnelly
Hi Bhupesh > On Oct 21, 2019, at 1:53 PM, Bhupesh Sharma wrote: > > Hello John, > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:39 PM John Donnelly > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> Kazuhito Hagio asked me to share my test results on this patch for >> makedumpfile : >> >> >>

Re: Makedumpfile help for 5.4.0.rc3 : Arm

2019-10-21 Thread Bhupesh Sharma
Hello John, On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:39 PM John Donnelly wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > Kazuhito Hagio asked me to share my test results on this patch for > makedumpfile : > > > https://sourceforge.net/p/makedumpfile/code/ci/7bdb468c2c99dd780c9a5321f93c79cbfdce2527/ > > And I was successfully

Makedumpfile help for 5.4.0.rc3 : Arm

2019-10-21 Thread John Donnelly
Hello, Kazuhito Hagio asked me to share my test results on this patch for makedumpfile : https://sourceforge.net/p/makedumpfile/code/ci/7bdb468c2c99dd780c9a5321f93c79cbfdce2527/ And I was successfully able to get vmcore dumps on vmlinuz-5.3.6 and 5.4.0-rc3 Intel ( x86-64) kernels. I am