[Crash-utility] crash 4.0-2.8 fails on 2.6.14-rc5 (EM64T)

[Dave Anderson]

Badari Pulavarty wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 14:41 -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
> > Sorry I've generated some unnecesary confusion re: my comments
> > about the use of DEFINE_PER_CPU and DECLARE_PER_CPU.
> > That's what I get for trying to multi-task...
> >
> > Stepping back, the init_tss array is defined in "arch/x86_64/kernel/init_task.c".
> >
> > In 2.6.9, it's declared like so:
> >
> > /*
> >  * per-CPU TSS segments. Threads are completely 'soft' on Linux,
> >  * no more per-task TSS's. The TSS size is kept cacheline-aligned
> >  * so they are allowed to end up in the .data.cacheline_aligned
> >  * section. Since TSS's are completely CPU-local, we want them
> >  * on exact cacheline boundaries, to eliminate cacheline ping-pong.
> >  */
> > DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tss_struct, init_tss) ____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp;
> >
> > In 2.6.13, it's slightly different in that it is initialized to INIT_TSS:
> >
> > /*
> >  * per-CPU TSS segments. Threads are completely 'soft' on Linux,
> >  * no more per-task TSS's. The TSS size is kept cacheline-aligned
> >  * so they are allowed to end up in the .data.cacheline_aligned
> >  * section. Since TSS's are completely CPU-local, we want them
> >  * on exact cacheline boundaries, to eliminate cacheline ping-pong.
> >  */
> > DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tss_struct, init_tss) ____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp = INIT_TSS;
> >
> > Both kernels have the same DECLARE_PER_CPU in the
> > "x86_64/processor.h" header file:
> >
> > DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct tss_struct,init_tss);
> >
> > That being the case, and not seeing why the INIT_TSS initialization should
> > have anything to do with the problem at hand, I am officially stumped at
> > why the 2.6.14 kernel shows the problem with your patch.
>
> Okay, I thought so too. I will take a closer look at it and let you
> know what I find. I am tempted to go back to 2.6.10 and see if
> crash works. Do you know the last known good kernel release for crash
> to work ?
>

Sorry -- for x86_64, I can't say that I do know the last version
that worked.  Maybe somebody else on the list that uses other
than Red Hat RHEL4 kernels does?

Dave