Re: [Crash-utility] crash failed on vmcore created by kdump at an IA64

Dave Anderson wrote: > Ok, so what happens if you comment out these two lines > in memory.c at line 573: > > if (symbol_exists("pgdat_list") && !IS_SPARSEMEM()) > vt->flags |= NODES; By commenting out these two lines (and previous patch), the crash did come up. KERNEL: vmlinuz-2.6.18-kdump DUMPFILE: vmcore-nmi CPUS: 2 DATE: Fri Oct 20 11:20:13 2006 UPTIME: 00:11:05 LOAD AVERAGE: 0.12, 0.04, 0.01 TASKS: 67 NODENAME: pogo1 RELEASE: 2.6.18-kdump VERSION: #40 SMP Wed Oct 18 17:53:19 PDT 2006 MACHINE: ia64 (1400 Mhz) MEMORY: 1.6 GB PANIC: "" PID: 0 COMMAND: "swapper" TASK: a0000001008f4000 (1 of 4) [THREAD_INFO: a0000001008f5060] CPU: 0 STATE: TASK_RUNNING WARNING: panic task not found crash> > > Also, can you do this: > > $ gdb vmlinuz-2.6.18-kdump > ... > (gdb) ptype struct pglist_data Here it is: (gdb) ptype struct pglist_data type = struct pglist_data { struct zone node_zones[4]; struct zonelist node_zonelists[5]; int nr_zones; struct page *node_mem_map; struct bootmem_data *bdata; long unsigned int node_start_pfn; long unsigned int node_present_pages; long unsigned int node_spanned_pages; int node_id; wait_queue_head_t kswapd_wait; struct task_struct *kswapd; int kswapd_max_order; } (gdb) Thanks, - jay