On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 21:50 +0000, Dave Anderson wrote: > > > > The attached patch implements the -K option that is the same as doing > > "-k -e <vmalloc_start_addr>". > > > > Comments? > > Bob Montgomery > > I like the idea... > > But it won't work on ia64 machines, where the vmalloc space is contained > within the region starting at a000000000000000, which is below the unity-mapped > region starting at e000000000000000. ... > > So it looks like it might need a hack for ia64 anyway, which > already has a few. I don't think any of the other arches have > their vmalloc regions below their unity-mapped regions. > > Dave So -K should really be defined as "search the identity-mapped region", maybe? Perhaps a mach-specific utility routine to return start and end for that region which become the defaults for -K search?? My own tools are really "search physical pages", but I didn't see that mechanism in crash (though it might be there?). It's been a while since ia64 was my main architecture :-) Bob Montgomery -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
