Michael Holzheu wrote:
 Hi Dave,
 
 Am Donnerstag, den 04.09.2008, 11:19 -0400 schrieb Dave Anderson:
 
 [snip]
 
 
>My guess is that it might have something to do with the zero-based kernel
>virtual address space on s390/s390x.
>
>I also guess that the trail would have been:
>
>  cmd_kmem
>   dump_memory_nodes
>    dump_mem_sections
>     section_mem_map_addr
>       read_mem_section
>
>where read_mem_section() can legitimately return if the addr
>passed is not kernel virtual address of a mem_section structure:
>
>   char *
>   read_mem_section(ulong addr)
>   {
>           if (!IS_KVADDR(addr))
>                   return 0;
>
>           readmem(addr, KVADDR, vt->mem_section, SIZE(mem_section),
>                   "memory section", FAULT_ON_ERROR);
>
>           return vt->mem_section;
>   }
>
>But the s390/s390x implementation of IS_KVADDR() accepts a kernel
>virtual address of zero.  It tries to read it and craps out.
>
 
 
 Right. Looks like we should check for NULL pointer instead of using
 IS_KVADDR(). Since the mem_sec array is static, it is initialized with
 zeroes. When I change the check, everything works fine. 
Great -- the patch looks fine.  Queued for the next release.
Thanks Michael,
   Dave
 
 What about the following patch...
 
 ---
 diff -Naurp crash-4.0-7.1/defs.h crash-4.0-7.1-sparse-mem-s390/defs.h
 --- crash-4.0-7.1/defs.h	2008-08-19 17:10:51.000000000 +0200
 +++ crash-4.0-7.1-sparse-mem-s390/defs.h	2008-09-04 18:24:10.000000000 +0200
 @@ -2636,6 +2636,9 @@ struct efi_memory_desc_t {
  
  #define TIF_SIGPENDING (2)
  
 +#define _SECTION_SIZE_BITS	25
 +#define _MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS	31
 +
  #endif  /* S390 */
  
  #ifdef S390X
 @@ -2658,6 +2661,9 @@ struct efi_memory_desc_t {
  
  #define TIF_SIGPENDING (2)
  
 +#define _SECTION_SIZE_BITS	28
 +#define _MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS	42
 +
  #endif  /* S390X */
  
  #ifdef PLATFORM
 diff -Naurp crash-4.0-7.1/memory.c crash-4.0-7.1-sparse-mem-s390/memory.c
 --- crash-4.0-7.1/memory.c	2008-08-19 17:10:51.000000000 +0200
 +++ crash-4.0-7.1-sparse-mem-s390/memory.c	2008-09-05 14:48:10.000000000 +0200
 @@ -12653,7 +12653,7 @@ sparse_mem_init(void)
  char *
  read_mem_section(ulong addr)
  {
 -	if (!IS_KVADDR(addr))
 +	if (addr == 0)
  		return 0;
  	
  	readmem(addr, KVADDR, vt->mem_section, SIZE(mem_section),
 @@ -12668,7 +12668,7 @@ nr_to_section(ulong nr)
  	ulong addr;
  	ulong *mem_sec = vt->mem_sec;
  
 -	if (!IS_KVADDR(mem_sec[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)]))
 +	if (mem_sec[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)] == 0)
  		return 0;
  
  	if (IS_SPARSEMEM_EX())
 diff -Naurp crash-4.0-7.1/s390.c crash-4.0-7.1-sparse-mem-s390/s390.c
 --- crash-4.0-7.1/s390.c	2008-08-19 17:10:51.000000000 +0200
 +++ crash-4.0-7.1-sparse-mem-s390/s390.c	2008-09-05 14:49:25.000000000 +0200
 @@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ s390_init(int when)
  		machdep->dump_irq = s390_dump_irq;
  		if (!machdep->hz)
  			machdep->hz = HZ;
 +		machdep->section_size_bits = _SECTION_SIZE_BITS;
 +		machdep->max_physmem_bits = _MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS;
  		break;
  
  	case POST_INIT:
 diff -Naurp crash-4.0-7.1/s390x.c crash-4.0-7.1-sparse-mem-s390/s390x.c
 --- crash-4.0-7.1/s390x.c	2008-08-19 17:10:51.000000000 +0200
 +++ crash-4.0-7.1-sparse-mem-s390/s390x.c	2008-09-04 18:24:24.000000000 +0200
 @@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ s390x_init(int when)
  		machdep->dump_irq = s390x_dump_irq;
  		if (!machdep->hz)
  			machdep->hz = HZ;
 +		machdep->section_size_bits = _SECTION_SIZE_BITS;
 +		machdep->max_physmem_bits = _MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS;
  		break;
  
  	case POST_INIT:
 
 
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