kdump broken on Altix 350

[Bernhard Walle]

Am Fr 29 Aug 2008 22:42:40 CEST schrieb "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck at intel.com>:
>> your commit
>>
>>     commit 10617bbe84628eb18ab5f723d3ba35005adde143
>>     Author: Tony Luck <tony.luck at intel.com>
>>     Date:   Tue Aug 12 10:34:20 2008 -0700
>>
>>     [IA64] Ensure cpu0 can access per-cpu variables in early boot code
>>
>> broke kdump on our Altix 350. I get following early crash in kdump
>> kernel
>
> Sorry about that.  I'll try to reproduce it here.  Do you (or anyone
> else reading this) know if the version of kexec that ships with RHEL5.2
> works with current 2.6.27-rc kernels

There's the danger of a zero-size /proc/vmcore, but that doesn't  
matter here. If you get a /proc/vmcore, regardless of the size, the  
bug did not hit you. :-)
So you can use it here.


Bernhard