[Crash-utility] the kmem get some errors

[Yang Zhiguo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Anderson" <anderson at redhat.com>
To: "Discussion list for crash utility usage,maintenance and development" <crash-utility at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] the kmem get some errors


> Yang Zhiguo wrote:
>> hi,
>> 
>> When i use kmem command on a IA64 with RHEL5.1 as following, there are 
>> some errors.
>> Anyone can explain it?
>> 
>> crash> kmem -c
>> kmem: cannot determine page cache size
>> crash> kmem -C
>> kmem: address_space page cache radix tree not supported
>> crash> kmem -la
>> kmem: active_list does not exist in this kernel
>> crash> kmem -La
>> kmem: active_list does not exist in this kernel
>> crash> kmem -li
>> kmem: inactive_list does not exist in this kernel
>> crash> kmem -Li
>> kmem: inactive_list does not exist in this kernel
> 
> None of the above are applicable to the RHEL5.1 (2.6.18-based) kernel,
> because the symbols they reference no longer exist.

If so, maybe we should explain it in man pages.

> 
>> crash> kmem -P e0000001843760c0
>>   <segmentation violation>
> 
> Shouldn't happen, but the command makes no sense (e0000001843760c0
> cannot be a physical address.

An error message may be more better.


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