----- "Bernhard Walle" <bernhard.walle@xxxxxx> wrote: > This affects only ppc64 and ia64 since that are the only > architectures that have a page size that is configurable at runtime by the system > (which means at boot by the kernel). > > It also only affects dumps of the formats diskdump (which includes kdump > compressed dumps created by makedumpfile) and netdump (which includes kdump > ELF dumps copied from /proc/vmcore without any filtering applied and created > by makedumpfile with the -E option). > > The patch reads the page size from the diskdump header or from the VMCOREINFO > in case of netdump (if it's there). For ia64 it also evaluates the page size > of the zero page to *change* the page size. In the past id didn't change the > page size, it only printed an error. > > The patch has been tested on ppc64 (4k vs. 64k), ia64 (16k vs. 64k) and x86-64 > (always 4k). It has been tested for compilation on i386, x86-64, ia64, PPC, > ppc64, s390 and s390x. Everything on a SLES 11/openSUSE 11.1 code > base. > > > Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx> Queued for the next release. Thanks to both Robin and Bernhard, Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
