[PATCH] Reserve elfcorehdr memory in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Thu Nov 6 21:49:48 EST 2008


On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:32:32PM -0800, Jay Lan wrote:
> IA64 kdump kernel failed to initialize /proc/vmcore in 2.6.28-rc2.
> A bug was introduced in this patch commit:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=d9a9855d0b06ca6d6cc92596fedcc03f8512e062
> 
> The problem was that the call to reserve_elfcorehdr() should be placed
> in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP rather than in CONFIG_CRASH_KERNEL, which does
> not exist.
> 
> The patch fixes the problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan at sgi.com>

Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>

> ---
>  arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c	2008-11-06 18:01:18.000000000 -0800
> +++ linux/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c	2008-11-06 18:05:42.047332827 -0800
> @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ reserve_memory (void)
>  	}
>  #endif
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_KERNEL
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
>  	if (reserve_elfcorehdr(&rsvd_region[n].start,
>  			       &rsvd_region[n].end) == 0)
>  		n++;


-- 
Simon Horman
  VA Linux Systems Japan K.K., Sydney, Australia Satellite Office
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