Hi Everyone, On Power6 crash displays "MACHINE: ppc64 (unknown Mhz)" for processor speed upon initialization and by the "sys" sub-command. # crash crash 5.0.1 Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005 NEC Corporation Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Enter "help copying" to see the conditions. This program has absolutely no warranty. Enter "help warranty" for details. GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"... KERNEL: /boot/vmlinux-2.6.32.9-0.5-ppc64 DUMPFILE: /dev/mem CPUS: 5 DATE: Thu Mar 18 03:13:59 2010 UPTIME: 04:11:31 LOAD AVERAGE: 0.34, 0.15, 0.05 TASKS: 319 NODENAME: brucelp3 RELEASE: 2.6.32.9-0.5-ppc64 VERSION: #1 SMP 2010-03-15 12:22:00 +0100 MACHINE: ppc64 (unknown Mhz) ======> display unknown Mhz MEMORY: 1 GB PID: 17788 COMMAND: "crash" TASK: c00000003ae58b80 [THREAD_INFO: c00000003df68000] CPU: 6 STATE: TASK_RUNNING (ACTIVE) ===================== When investigated this issue was absence of 'have_of' symbol in current kernels. Below is the commit which removed the support of 'have_of'. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6b82b3e4b54b2fce2ca11976c535012b836b2016 This patch overcomes the use of 'have_of' variable.. Please review this patch.. Regards, Pavan IBM Linux Technology Center --- diff -Naur a/ppc64.c b/ppc64.c --- a/ppc64.c 2010-03-24 10:14:33.000000000 +0530 +++ b/ppc64.c 2010-03-24 10:14:51.000000000 +0530 @@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ ppc64_processor_speed(void) { ulong res, value, ppc_md, md_setup_res; - ulong we_have_of, prep_setup_res; + ulong prep_setup_res; ulong node, type, name, properties; char str_buf[32]; uint len; @@ -751,22 +751,12 @@ if (machdep->mhz) return(machdep->mhz); - /* first, check if the have_of variable a) exists, and b) is TRUE */ - if(symbol_exists("have_of")) { - get_symbol_data("have_of", sizeof(void *), &we_have_of); - } else { - we_have_of = 0; - } - - if(we_have_of) { + if(symbol_exists("allnodes")) { /* we have a machine with open firmware, so search the OF nodes * for cpu nodes. * Too bad we can't call kernel helper functions here :) */ - if(!symbol_exists("allnodes")) - return (machdep->mhz = 0); - get_symbol_data("allnodes", sizeof(void *), &node); while(node) { readmem(node+OFFSET(device_node_type), diff -Naur a/ppc.c b/ppc.c --- a/ppc.c 2010-03-24 10:14:33.000000000 +0530 +++ b/ppc.c 2010-03-24 10:14:51.000000000 +0530 @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ ppc_processor_speed(void) { ulong res, value, ppc_md, md_setup_res; - ulong we_have_of, prep_setup_res; + ulong prep_setup_res; ulong node, type, name, properties; char str_buf[16]; ulong len, mhz = 0; @@ -469,22 +469,12 @@ if (machdep->mhz) return(machdep->mhz); - /* first, check if the have_of variable a) exists, and b) is TRUE */ - if(symbol_exists("have_of")) { - get_symbol_data("have_of", sizeof(void *), &we_have_of); - } else { - we_have_of = 0; - } - - if(we_have_of) { + if(symbol_exists("allnodes")) { /* we have a machine with open firmware, so search the OF nodes * for cpu nodes. * Too bad we can't call kernel helper functions here :) */ - if(!symbol_exists("allnodes")) - return (machdep->mhz = 0); - get_symbol_data("allnodes", sizeof(void *), &node); while(node) { readmem(node+OFFSET(device_node_type), -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility