[Crash-utility] [PATCH] Add support for 'foreign' page sizes in kdump dumps
Bernhard Walle
bwalle at suse.de
Thu Jan 15 19:36:50 UTC 2009
* Dave Anderson [2009-01-15 13:42]:
>
> @@ -1418,6 +1511,19 @@
> netdump_print(" n_type: %lx ", note->n_type);
> switch (note->n_type)
> {
> + case 0: /* unknown, used for VMCOREINFO */
> +
> + if (strncmp(VMCOREINFO_NOTE_NAME, (char *)note+sizeof(Elf64_Nhdr),
> + VMCOREINFO_NOTE_NAME_BYTES) == 0) {
> +
> + /* we have VMCOREINFO */
> + nd->vmcoreinfo = (char *)nd->elf64 + offset +
> + (sizeof(Elf64_Nhdr) + ((note->n_namesz + 3) & ~3));
> + nd->size_vmcoreinfo = note->n_descsz;
> + nd->page_size = vmcoreinfo_read_integer("PAGESIZE", 0);
> + }
> + break;
> +
>
> So unless you can convince me otherwise, I'll just drop this patch
> segment.
No, you're right. I left that block for code symmetry (but didn't
notice the wrong nd->elf64. In my testing it was not possible to notice
the nd->elf64 since the code block is never executed.
I sent a new patch with this removed.
Bernhard
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development
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