On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 02:02:27PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > The OCTEON family of MIPS64 CPUs uses a PAGE_OFFSET of > 0x8000000000000000ULL, which is differs from other CPUs. > > Scan /proc/cpuinfo to see if the current system is "Octeon", if so, > patch the page_offset so that usable kdump core files are produced. > > Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> Is it possible to read this offset from the system rather than checking for an Octeon CPU? It seems that such an approach, if possible, would be somewhat more general.
