Re: kdump broken on 2.6.37-rc4

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Dec 16 2010 - 22:31:32 EST


This is a multi-part message in MIME format.On 12/15/2010 08:29 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> please check
>
> [PATCH] x86, crashkernel, 32bit: only try to get range under 512M
>
> Steanishlaw report kdump is 32bit is broken.
>
> in misc.c for decompresser, it will do sanity checking to make sure heap
> heap under 512M.
>
> So limit it in first kernel under 512M for 32bit system.
>
> Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>

I'd like to apply a modified version of this patch (attached.)

Ack/nak, people?

-hpa