From: Dave Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Can't exclude unnecessary pages for 2.6.31 Kernel Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:24:05 -0400 (EDT) > > ----- "Dave Anderson" <anderson at redhat.com> wrote: > >> ----- "CAI Qian" <caiqian at redhat.com> wrote: >> >> > From: CAI Qian <caiqian at redhat.com> >> > Subject: Re: Can't exclude unnecessary pages for 2.6.31 Kernel >> > Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:26:44 +0800 (CST) >> > >> > > Cced the crash utility maintainer. >> > > >> > > BZ filed -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526749 >> > > >> > >> It does make -d 16 works without errors. However, the crash utility >> > >> failed to read it (the log attached), but the full VMCore is working >> > >> fine there. >> > >> >> > >> crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffffffff819f1764 type: "tss_struct ist array" >> > >> >> I believe that the "tss_struct" issue is a crash bug if in fact it works >> OK with a full vmcore. I'll look at the vmlinux/vmcores from the BZ. > > Definitely a crash utility bug -- I'll fix it in the next upstream release. > > Dave > After applied the patch, the problem has gone, and I can analyze the VMCore without any problem so far. Thanks Ken'ichi and Dave for the fixes! CAI Qian
