Re: kdump broken on 2.6.37-rc4

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Sat Dec 18 2010 - 16:51:18 EST


On 12/16/2010 02:00 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 08:29:01PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> please check
>>
>> [PATCH] x86, crashkernel, 32bit: only try to get range under 512M
>>
>> Steanishlaw report kdump is 32bit is broken.
> LOL
>
>> 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>
>
> Patch fix problem on my T-60 laptop.
>
> As expected patch does not help on my other T-500 x86_64 system,
> kdump not work there, but perhaps this is a different problem,
> I'm going to check it.

Can you try crashkernel=256M@128M on your T-500 x86_64 system?

Thanks

Yinghai
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