On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 06:37:09PM +0100, Petr Tesarik wrote: > The number of program header table entries (e_phnum) is an Elf64_Half, > which is a 16-bit entity, i.e. the limit is 65534 entries (one entry is > reserved for NOTE). This is a hard limit, defined by the ELF standard. > It is possible that more LMBs (Logical Memory Blocks) are needed to > represent all RAM on some machines, and this field overflows, causing > an incomplete /proc/vmcore file. > > This has actually happened on a machine with 31TB of RAM and an LMB size > of 256MB. > > However, since there is usually no memory hole between adjacent LMBs, the > map can be "compressed", combining multiple adjacent into a single LOAD > segment. > > Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik at suse.com> Thanks, applied.
