This seems to be a corner case which purgatory efi-memmap code does not handle correctly. Can you print the memory ranges layout information of first and second kernel? e.g, the efi memmap, the crash notes memory address. Thanks Zou Nan hai > -----Original Message----- > From: Horms [mailto:horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 2007年2月5日 9:59 > To: fastboot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Zou, Nanhai; Khalid Aziz; Mel Gorman; Bob Picco; Magnus Damm > Subject: Zero size /proc/vmcore on ia64 > > Hi, > > I have been poking around this problem a bit over the past week, > and I thought it would be a good idea to get it out in the open. > > At some stage /proc/vmcore (in a crash-kernel) went from being > something useful, to being zero size. > > I initially thought this was because saved_max_pfn was not being > set correctly. And indeed it is not set for discontig memory. > But the trivial fix below has not been sufficient to resolve the problem :( > > The problem seems to be along the lines of: > * kexec-tool sets up a segment to contain the elf header. > * This segment happens to be almost at the end of the crashkernel area > of memory that is visible to the crash kernel. > * However, when purgatory munges the EFI map, this segment > is marked as EFI_UNUSABLE_MEMORY. > * As a result of this it is not in a range covered by efi_memmap_walk() > * And thus it is outside the range of memory covered by a valid PFN > (remember its at the end of memory, it turns out that the > max PFN covers memory up until just before the header) > * The header can't be read by the vmcore setup code > * And vmcore is uninitialised > > read_from_oldmem: error: pfn (32761) > saved_max_pfn (31744) > Kdump: vmcore not initialized > > The saved_max_pfn error above is produced by debuging code > that I added to read_from_oldmem(). > It also uses the patch below, otherwise saved_max_pfn is 0. > > For reference: > I am using today's linus tree (2.6.20) > The problem seems to have been around since at least 2.6.19-rc6 > I have a Tiger2 system using disctontig memory > The problem also seems to manifest when using contig memory > > -- > Horms > H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ > W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ > > Set saved_max_pfn when discontig memory is in use. > > This sets up saved_max_pfn when disctontig memory is in use. > This mirrors the code for contig memory. > > This patch does not entirely solve the problem of making vmcore work, > however it does appear to be neccessary. Please consider applying. > > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c b/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c > index 96722cb..999cefd 100644 > --- a/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c > +++ b/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c > @@ -506,6 +509,12 @@ void __init find_memory(void) > max_pfn = max_low_pfn; > > find_initrd(); > + > +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP > + /* If we are doing a crash dump, we still need to know the real mem > + * size before original memory map is reset. */ > + saved_max_pfn = max_pfn; > +#endif > } > > #ifdef CONFIG_SMP - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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