[PATCH] ia64 kern_vaddr_start was calculated incorrectly

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Mon Mar 3 21:52:13 EST 2008


On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:53:26PM -0800, Jay Lan wrote:
> I tested in a rhel5.1 root with:
>    2.6.24 kernel
>    kexec-tools-testing-20080227
>    crash-4.0-5.1
> 
> Crash failed to initialize:
> 
> crash: read error: kernel virtual address: a0000001007f0868  type:
> "kernel_config_data"
> WARNING: cannot read kernel_config_data
> crash: read error: kernel virtual address: a000000100f370b0  type: "xtime"
> 
> It turned out that the kexec sets info->kern_vaddr_start incorrectly
> on ia64 platform.
> 
> Jonathan Lim posted a fix to the fastboot list in March 2007:
> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/fastboot/2007-March/013645.html
> This patch derived from Jonathan's patch, but fixes the problem at
> kexec/arch/ia64/crashdump-ia64.c.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jay Lan  <jlan at sgi.com>

Thanks Jay, Thanks Jonathan.

Sorry for not picking this up earlier. I have applied it now.

-- 
Horms




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