makedumpfile fails on SGI machine

Ken'ichi Ohmichi oomichi at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp
Mon Aug 18 03:19:38 EDT 2008


Hi Bernhard,

Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2008-08-05 21:07]:
>> BTW, I'd like to know some conditions of this problem.
>> So please let me know the makedumpfile commandline which you run.
>>  Ex. # makedumpfile -d 31 -x vmlinux /proc/vmcore dumpfile
> 
>   # makedumpfile -d 3 -D vmcore.sles11 vmcore.sles11.filtered
> 
>> I doubt that makedumpfile cannot distinguish the pgtable correctly.
>> I created the debugging patch. Please run makedumpfile-1.2.7 applied
>> with it by '-D' option, and report the output.
>> According to your kernel .config file, the output should contain
>> "PAGETABLE_4L : ON".
> 
> See the attachment.

Thanks for the log.
makedumpfile can distinguish the pgtable correctly.

Can the crash utility translate the virtual address 0xa0007fff8f900000
to physical address ? Please run the following subcommand on the crash
utility.

crash> vtop 0xa0007fff8f900000


Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi



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