[Crash-utility] "cannot access vmalloc'd module memory" when loading kdump'ed vmcore in crash

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Tue Oct 14 16:09:14 UTC 2008


Worth, Kevin wrote:
 > Thanks, Dave. I was actually going to ask about that since you had mentioned that
 > /dev/crash should behave correctly in contrast to /dev/mem / /dev/kmem. Does it
 > matter that my arch is i386 and not x86_64? I'll give this a shot.

D'oh...

Sorry yes, it sure does -- I've attached the i386 version of crash.h.
(The crash.c file is arch-neutral)

For that matter, 2.6.20 does have an i386 version of page_is_ram(),
so all you'll have to do is add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(page_is_ram) in
"arch/i386/mm/init.c".

Dave
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