Re: [PATCH] x86_64: setup saved_max_pfn correctly (kdump)

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Nov 02 2006 - 12:40:39 EST


On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:19:34PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> x86_64: setup saved_max_pfn correctly
>
> 2.6.19-rc4 has broken CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP support on x86_64. It is impossible
> to read out the kernel contents from /proc/vmcore because saved_max_pfn is set
> to zero instead of the max_pfn value before the user map is setup.

Do you know what patch has broken it?

Or did just nobody test crash dump at all since -rc* started?

-Andi
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