----- "Bernhard Walle" <bwalle(a)suse.de&gt; wrote: ... I may be preceeding your next response, and I apologize if I am, but the more I think of it, the more I think that ia64.c should just be left as is. If the kdump (compressed or not) advertises a page size that's incompatible with the vmlinux file (via the empty_zero_page check) then the user must be using the wrong vmlinux file, and the session attempt should just be aborted as is done now. I can't think of a reason where resetting the page size to conflict with the dumpfile could ever possibly work? Dave