makedumpfile fails on SGI machine

[Ken'ichi Ohmichi]

Hi,

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
> 
> crash> vtop 0xa0007fff8f900000  
> VIRTUAL           PHYSICAL        
> a0007fff8f900000  (not mapped)
> 
> PAGE DIRECTORY: a000000100914000
>    PGD: a000000100914000 => 30030bc000
>    PUD: e0000030030bfff8 => 30030c0000
>    PMD: e0000030030c3e38 => 30030c4000
>    PTE: e0000030030c7200 => 0

Thank you for the report :-)

I'll compare the vtop logic of the crash utility with the one of makedumpfile.


Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi