[Crash-utility] [PATCH] Add support for 'foreign' page sizes in kdump dumps
Dave Anderson
anderson at redhat.com
Thu Jan 15 18:21:23 UTC 2009
----- "Bernhard Walle" <bwalle at suse.de> wrote:
> * 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.
Right -- that's true. And I think that earlier implementation of VMCOREINFO
didn't have the pagesize either.
But let's see how this shakes out for now.
Thanks,
Dave
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