Dave Anderson schrieb: >> >> As we know, on x86(32 bits), uint32_t is 4 bytes and uint64_t is 8 >> bytes. >> >> So this line >> 140 nr_cpus = (hdr_size - offset) / sizeof(dump_CPU_info_t); >> >> would not get a correct nr_cpus due to the sizeof(). >> >> A patch to fix this problem as below. > > BTW, what exactly are the ramifications without the patch -- does the > crash session die during initialization? How come nobody ran into > this issue given that the code has been in place for almost 2 years? > > 4.0-4.8 - ... > > - Change for support of LKCD dumpfile version 8 and later to determine > the backtrace starting registers from the dumpfile header. Increase > (maximum) NR_CPUS for ia64 to 4096. > (bwalle@xxxxxxx) > > ... > > (10/30/07) > > Anyway, the patch looks reasonable to me, but I don't touch the LKCD > code without a sign-off from the LKCD maintainers on this mailing > list. > > LKCD maintainers -- do you have any objection to this patch? Sorry for that mistake, it was me. :-( It's a copy & paste error (the members are just copied from the dump_header_asm_t definition above. And I acknowledge the patch (from reading it, I have no test material here any more). Troy may give the ultimate acknowledge. ;-) Regards, Bernhard -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
