On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 10:02:03PM +0530, Chandru wrote: > The following patch was discussed sometime back on kexec-tools mailing list. > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2008-December/003096.html > Sending it here again for inclusion into kexec-tools. thanks > ==================================== > > > Exclude GART memory region and make kexec-tools to not create elf headers to > it. Currently it seems like the dump analysis tools do not need a copy of the > GART memory region, hence ignoring it in kexec-tools. Symtoms of accessing > this region in kdump kernel included hangs, spurious restarts, and MCE > (Machine Check Exception) panics in some AMD Opteron systems Thanks, applied. -- Simon Horman VA Linux Systems Japan K.K., Sydney, Australia Satellite Office H: www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: www.valinux.co.jp/en
