Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH] Add support for 'foreign' page sizes in kdump dumps
----- "Bernhard Walle" <bwalle(a)suse.de> wrote:
* Dave Anderson [2009-01-14 16:32]:
>
> Now I'm confused -- since the patches to diskdump.c and netdump.c properly set
the
> page size for ia64, why is there any need to change ia64_init()? If anything,
> that code could only end up over-writing the pre-determined values returned by
> diskdump_page_size() and kdump_page_size(), meaning that the diskdump header
> info or the vmcoreinfo info is in fact invalid?
For kernels that have no VMCOREINFO. I'll remove that part on your
request.
Right -- that's true. And I think that earlier implementation of VMCOREINFO
didn't have the pagesize either.
But let's see how this shakes out for now.
Thanks,
Dave