Re: kexec/kdump kernel fails to start

[Cong Wang]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Flavio Leitner <fbl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have system that no longer boots kdump kernel. Basically,
>
> # echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
>
> to dump a vmcore doesn't work. It just hangs after showing the usual
> panic messages. I've bisected the problem and the commit introducing
> the issue is the one below.
>
> Any idea?
>
> commit 722bc6b16771ed80871e1fd81c86d3627dda2ac8
> Author: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>  2012-03-05 20:05:13
> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>  2012-03-06 05:38:26
> Parent: 550cf00dbc8ee402bef71628cb71246493dd4500 (Merge tag 'mmc-fixes-for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc)
> Child:  a6fca40f1d7f3e232c9de27c1cebbb9f787fbc4f (x86, tlb: Switch cr3 in leave_mm() only when needed)
> Branches: master, remotes/origin/master
> Follows: v3.3-rc6
> Precedes: v3.5-rc1
>
>     x86/mm: Fix the size calculation of mapping tables

There was some attempt to fix this:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1195751/

but for some reason it is not accepted.
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