[Crash-utility] [PATCH] Add support for 'foreign' page sizes in kdump dumps

Bernhard Walle bwalle at suse.de
Thu Jan 15 17:22:27 UTC 2009


* Dave Anderson [2009-01-14 16:32]:
> 
> Now I'm confused -- since the patches to diskdump.c and netdump.c properly set the
> page size for ia64, why is there any need to change ia64_init()?  If anything,
> that code could only end up over-writing the pre-determined values returned by
> diskdump_page_size() and kdump_page_size(), meaning that the diskdump header
> info or the vmcoreinfo info is in fact invalid?

For kernels that have no VMCOREINFO. I'll remove that part on your
request.


    Bernhard
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Architecture Development




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