Can't exclude unnecessary pages for 2.6.31 Kernel

[Dave Anderson]

----- "Dave Anderson" <anderson at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- "CAI Qian" <caiqian at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: CAI Qian <caiqian at redhat.com>
> > Subject: Re: Can't exclude unnecessary pages for 2.6.31 Kernel
> > Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:26:44 +0800 (CST)
> >
> > > Cced the crash utility maintainer.
> > >
> > > BZ filed -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526749
> > >
> > >> It does make -d 16 works without errors. However, the crash utility
> > >> failed to read it (the log attached), but the full VMCore is working
> > >> fine there.
> > >>
> > >> crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffffffff819f1764 type: "tss_struct ist array"
> >
> 
> I believe that the "tss_struct" issue is a crash bug if in fact it works
> OK with a full vmcore.  I'll look at the vmlinux/vmcores from the BZ.

Definitely a crash utility bug -- I'll fix it in the next upstream release.

Dave

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