On 19/08/16 09:00, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> On 17/08/2016:04:33:31 PM, James Morse wrote:
>> copy_oldmem_page() and mmap_vmcore() provide two ways for userspace to read
>> from /proc/vmcore. Neither of these check with memblock to see if the page
>> they are accessing is nomap. On Seattle this causes:
>
> Thanks for the patch.It did resolve the kernel crash issue with makedumpfile,
> however neither there was any data in vmcore-dmesg nor crash utility was able to
> work the saved vmcore.
vmcore-dmesg doesn't work for me, but crash did once I'd rebuilt it from the
most recent source.
The most recent commit I have is:
b349598bb755 ("Fix for the ARM64 "bt -R <symbol>" option if the only reference")
Are you using an older version?
Thanks,
James
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