On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:54:42AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:48:27 +1000 Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote: > > > elfcore header memory needs to be reserved in a crash kernel. > > This means that the relevant code should be protected > > by CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP rather than CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE. > > > > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> > > > > --- > > Andrew, this patch fixes bug in the (unlikely) case where > > an ia64 crashdump kernel does not have CONFIG_PROC_FS set. > > I think it is worth including in 2.6.27. But breakage cases are > > likely to be minimal to non-existent, so I am comfortable > > with post 2.6.27 too. > > > > This patch should be appended to the series, > > "is_kdump_kernel() cleanup and related patches". > > hm, that means that we would need to apply a moderate-size seven patch > series to fix one little bug. > > I think that if we want to fix this in 2.6.27 then the basic single > patch would be preferable. Or we leave it until 2.6.28/ I think it would be better to wait until 2.6.28 than mess around with a minimal and then a proper fix. I doubt that anyone is hitting this.
