makedumpfile fails on SGI machine

[Bernhard Walle]

Hi Ken'ichi Ohmichi,

* Jay Lan [2008-08-27 18:43]:
> 
> Thanks for your patch!
> 
> I am wondering if the discontigmem kernel has a legitimate bug,
> we probably should report it?
> 
> I tested your patch on a machine that used to fail in executing
> 'makedumpfile'. It now generated a dump file fine.

thanks for the patch, I can also report that with the patch and with
vmlinux it works now. However, shouldn't we add that vmem_map to
VMCOREINFO of the kernel?

Thanks also Jay for testing!


Bernhard
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Architecture Development