Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at in.ibm.com
Mon Jul 16 00:19:19 EDT 2007


On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 03:15:50PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> [2007-07-13 13:05]:
> > 
> > BTW, I'd like to remove PAGESIZE from a mkdfinfo file.
> > While 2nd-kernel is running, new makedumpfile comes to consider
> > 2nd-kernel PAGESIZE as 1st-kernel PAGESIZE without getting PAGESIZE
> > from a mkdfinfo file.
> 
> I don't think that's a good idea. IMO the kernel should be modified to
> export the page size in a variable for that purpose. That would solve
> all problems and dependencies, doesn't it?
> 

Agreed. We need to export PAGESIZE from kernel instead of assuming that
second kernel as got same page size as first kernel.

Thanks
Vivek



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