[Crash-utility] Re: nr_cpus is not calculated properly

Michael Holzheu holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Jun 15 11:40:59 UTC 2009


Am Freitag, den 12.06.2009, 09:04 -0400 schrieb Dave Anderson:
> ----- "Wei Jiang" <talk90091e at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > In my test, I did not see any exceptions else due to my 32bits dump
> > file is corrupted. As you know, a incorrect nr_cpus will
> > lead to some following fields(dha_smp_current_task, dha_stack) are
> > pointed to a error location, which might be a potential defect and
> > will be raised in future.  
> 
> Actually I don't know -- so that's why I asked.  I almost never see
> an LKCD dumpfile.  
> 

Just FYI: For s390 we still use the lkcd dump format in some cases.
Therefore we still need the support in crash.

Michael




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