From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Hnf5M-0007s1-3Z for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 14:15:53 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 20:15:21 +0200 From: Bernhard Walle Subject: Re: [PATCH] [makedumpfile] Implement memory regions on IA64 Message-ID: <20070514181521.GA1748@suse.de> References: <20070426193725.GA2586@suse.de> <20070511155950oomichi@mail.jp.nec.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20070511155950oomichi@mail.jp.nec.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1206541110==" Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Ken'ichi Ohmichi Cc: Jay Lan , Kexec Mailing List --===============1206541110== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb" Content-Disposition: inline --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, sorry for the late reply, but I was out of office last week. * Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2007-05-11 08:59]: > 2007/04/26 21:37:25 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > >This patch fixes an error in vaddr_to_offset_ia64() which happened on > >a SGI machine here while retrieving the utsname from the kernel dump > >image. It implements memory region support for IA64. >=20 > For ia64 DISCONTIGMEM support, I added the translation (virtual address > to physical address) by using layer 3 paging into your patch. > I created 2 attached patches for ia64 DISCONTIGMEM support. >=20 > I confirmed makedumpfile with these patches can run on linux-2.6.18 kernel > (made of RHEL5 kernel by changing configs from SPARSEMEM to DISCONTIGMEM). > Could you please test them on SLES10 ? it doesn't work here. The config file is generated, but at runtime I get a SEGV which is caused by a endless recusion of ia64_vtop() while resolving the utsname. I'm looking into this ... > BTW, the patches don't run on stock linux-2.6.20 w/DISCONTIGMEM > (it works with stock linux-2.6.20 w/SPARSEMEM) > I am trying to resolve the problem and if you have any idea about > kernel changes between 2.6.18-20, please let me know. Sorry, no. Thanks, Bernhard --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGSKc5iGU2lt2vZFQRAqLcAJ94fv7nPkG1FYSNAPGNg8xH3jSn6wCeIg7u NU2nVAYAlc9mivDMu8ozRlE= =movL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb-- --===============1206541110== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec --===============1206541110==--