From: Bob Montgomery <bob.montgomery@hp.com>
To: Chandru <chandru@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kdump: quad core Opteron
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:55:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1228848959.3428.372.camel@amd.troyhebe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812091742.45275.chandru@in.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 12:12 +0000, Chandru wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 December 2008 03:24:32 Vivek Goyal wrote:
>
> > Hi Chandru,
> >
> > So this patch will solve the issue (at least for /proc/vmcore) even if
> > we don't make any changes on kernel side?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Vivek
>
> Hi Vivek,
>
> Yes, without any changes to the kernel and with this patch, we can boot into
> kdump kernel on these quad core Opteron machines and collect a dump.
Provided that the kernel is new enough to have the "Insert GART region
into resource map" already. Otherwise, you will need to change the
kernel for this to work.
Chandru, thanks for coding this up.
Bob Montgomery
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-09 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-07 12:51 kdump: quad core Opteron Chandru
2008-10-07 13:06 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-10-07 13:24 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-10-07 15:59 ` Bob Montgomery
2008-10-08 13:51 ` Chandru
2008-12-08 15:56 ` Chandru
2008-12-08 21:54 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-12-09 12:12 ` Chandru
2008-12-09 18:55 ` Bob Montgomery [this message]
2008-12-08 23:35 ` Bob Montgomery
2008-12-09 1:32 ` Neil Horman
2008-12-09 11:59 ` Chandru
2008-10-08 13:40 ` Chandru
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