[Crash-utility] [Patch] ia64 block_size mismatch issue.

Bernhard Walle bwalle at suse.de
Fri Jan 9 17:58:57 UTC 2009


* Robin Holt [2009-01-09 11:55]:
>
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 06:48:09PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > * Robin Holt [2009-01-09 11:40]:
> > >
> > > 
> > > ia64 recently changed the default page size from 16KB to 64KB.  Trying
> > > to analyze a dump taken on a 64KB system on a 16KB page system fails.
> > > Fix this problem by reallocating and rereading the header when block_size
> > > mismatches.
> > 
> > That's only one part of the problem. Your patch doesn't handle ELF
> > dumps (netdump.c). There are also other parts that need update. I have
> > a more complete patch that was also tested on PPC, too. Dave, should I
> > port that patch to the current crash release or don't you want that
> > changes in crash?
> 
> Is that patch in the SuSE crash utility? 

Not (yet).


    Bernhard
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Architecture Development




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