Can't exclude unnecessary pages for 2.6.31 Kernel

Ken'ichi Ohmichi oomichi at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp
Sun Oct 4 20:05:30 EDT 2009


Dave Anderson wrote:
> ----- "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.

good job :-)


Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi



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