Hi, sorry for the late reply, but I was out of office last week. * Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> [2007-05-11 08:59]: > 2007/04/26 21:37:25 +0200, Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> wrote: > >This patch fixes an error in vaddr_to_offset_ia64() which happened on > >a SGI machine here while retrieving the utsname from the kernel dump > >image. It implements memory region support for IA64. > > For ia64 DISCONTIGMEM support, I added the translation (virtual address > to physical address) by using layer 3 paging into your patch. > I created 2 attached patches for ia64 DISCONTIGMEM support. > > I confirmed makedumpfile with these patches can run on linux-2.6.18 kernel > (made of RHEL5 kernel by changing configs from SPARSEMEM to DISCONTIGMEM). > Could you please test them on SLES10 ? it doesn't work here. The config file is generated, but at runtime I get a SEGV which is caused by a endless recusion of ia64_vtop() while resolving the utsname. I'm looking into this ... > BTW, the patches don't run on stock linux-2.6.20 w/DISCONTIGMEM > (it works with stock linux-2.6.20 w/SPARSEMEM) > I am trying to resolve the problem and if you have any idea about > kernel changes between 2.6.18-20, please let me know. Sorry, no. Thanks, Bernhard -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/attachments/20070514/01eb67f4/attachment.bin
