Hi Bernhard, 2007/05/18 12:50:04 +0200, Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> wrote: >We have a system here with following memory map: > >/proc/iomem: >4ffe14000-4ffe7ffff : reserved >4ffe80000-4fffb5fff : System RAM >4fffb6000-4ffffffff : reserved > >max_pfn = 1310720 > >In that case, the last page of the "System RAM" is not full in 16K page size >configuration. That leads to an error in makedumpfile when it checks if that's >a zero page. It's because it tries to read the whole page and the read() >fails because it's after the end of the dump file. > >That patch fixes this problem. Thank you for the patch. I guess there are the other problems because makedumpfile should not access incomplete page. To confirm the problem, I'd like to see the makedumpfile log with -D option. Could you send it ? Thanks Ken'ichi Ohmichi
