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

[Bernhard Walle]

Michael Holzheu schrieb:
> 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.

That change that broke i386 affected i386, x86_64 and ia64 only. I made
it for ia64 that time.


Regards,
Bernhard