Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 16:59 -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: > > Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > After 2.6.15, ppc64 per_cpu_offsets are moved to "paca" > > > structure. Here is the patch to make crash read per-cpu-offsets > > > from paca structure. > > > > > > Without this patch, you get following error while running > > > crash. Please apply. > > > > > > crash: cannot determine idle task addresses from init_tasks[] or > > > runqueues[] > > > > > > crash: cannot resolve "init_task_union" > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Badari > > > > > > > Hi Badari, > > > > This looks just fine to me. Can you verify that "make Warn" compiles it > > cleanly? It looks like it should, but I don't have a ppc64 readily available. > > > > Also, a minor nit -- for debug purposes only -- can you add this new > > "ppc64_paca" size display to the dump_offset_table() routine -- just > > under the "x8664_pda" size display? > > > > Okay. Here is the new version. I haven't introduced any warnings in this > round, but I did in my previous round. I cleaned those now. > > I also added paca size display to dump_offset_table(). Ok, good -- thanks! > > > BTW: crash is broken for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM (which seems to be default > for ppc64). I had to hack it every time to make crash work on ppc64. > Do you want to include temporary hack to make crash work till it > gets fixed for real. (with the hack most commands work, but some memory > related commands show wrong data). > Right, this issue came up during the last kexec/kdump conference call. Anyway, I'd prefer to wait until for your real fix, which should hopefully be able to shoe-horn the sparse memory nodes into the platform-neutral node_table array. Thanks, Dave > > Thanks, > Badari > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: crash-paca-fix.patch2 > crash-paca-fix.patch2 Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: 7bit > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > Crash-utility mailing list > Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
