Re: [PATCH] kdump: Fix for boot problems on SMP

[Badari Pulavarty]

Hari,

Tested the patch on my 4-way P-III  (where it was hanging earlier)
and it works fine for me.

Thanks,
Badari

Hariprasad Nellitheertha wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> There was a buggy (and unnecessary) reserve_bootmem call in the kdump 
> call which was causing hangs during early on some SMP machines. The 
> attached patch removes that.
>
> Kindly include this patch into the -mm tree.
>
> Thanks and Regards, Hari
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
>  linux-2.6.10-rc2-hari/include/asm-i386/crash_dump.h |    1 -
>  1 files changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff -puN include/asm-i386/crash_dump.h~kdump-reserve-bootmem-fix include/asm-i386/crash_dump.h
> --- linux-2.6.10-rc2/include/asm-i386/crash_dump.h~kdump-reserve-bootmem-fix	2004-11-18 19:20:47.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.10-rc2-hari/include/asm-i386/crash_dump.h	2004-11-18 19:21:03.000000000 +0530
> @@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ static inline void set_saved_max_pfn(voi
>  static inline void crash_reserve_bootmem(void)
>  {
>  	if (!dump_enabled) {
> -		reserve_bootmem(0, CRASH_RELOCATE_SIZE);
>  		reserve_bootmem(CRASH_BACKUP_BASE,
>  			CRASH_BACKUP_SIZE + CRASH_RELOCATE_SIZE + PAGE_SIZE);
>  	}
> _

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