Am Fr 29 Aug 2008 22:42:40 CEST schrieb "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck at intel.com>: >> your commit >> >> commit 10617bbe84628eb18ab5f723d3ba35005adde143 >> Author: Tony Luck <tony.luck at intel.com> >> Date: Tue Aug 12 10:34:20 2008 -0700 >> >> [IA64] Ensure cpu0 can access per-cpu variables in early boot code >> >> broke kdump on our Altix 350. I get following early crash in kdump >> kernel > > Sorry about that. I'll try to reproduce it here. Do you (or anyone > else reading this) know if the version of kexec that ships with RHEL5.2 > works with current 2.6.27-rc kernels There's the danger of a zero-size /proc/vmcore, but that doesn't matter here. If you get a /proc/vmcore, regardless of the size, the bug did not hit you. :-) So you can use it here. Bernhard