ia64 recently changed the default page size from 16KB to 64KB. Trying to analyze a dump taken on a 64KB system on a 16KB page system fails. Fix this problem by reallocating and rereading the header when block_size mismatches. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt(a)sgi.com&gt; --- diskdump.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) Index: crash-4.0-7.5/diskdump.c =================================================================== --- crash-4.0-7.5.orig/diskdump.c 2008-12-05 09:06:09.000000000 -0600 +++ crash-4.0-7.5/diskdump.c 2009-01-08 11:46:53.193321876 -0600 @@ -107,12 +107,13 @@ static int read_dump_header(char *file) struct disk_dump_sub_header *sub_header = NULL; struct kdump_sub_header *sub_header_kdump = NULL; int bitmap_len; - const int block_size = (int)sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE); + int block_size = (int)sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE); off_t offset; const off_t failed = (off_t)-1; ulong pfn; int i, j, max_sect_len; +reread_block_size: if (block_size < 0) return FALSE; @@ -147,6 +148,14 @@ static int read_dump_header(char *file) goto err; } + if (header->block_size != block_size) { + block_size = header->block_size; + free(header); + goto reread_block_size; + } + dd->block_size = block_size; + dd->block_shift = ffs(block_size) - 1; + if (CRASHDEBUG(1)) fprintf(fp, "%s: header->utsname.machine: %s\n", DISKDUMP_VALID() ? "diskdump" : "compressed kdump", @@ -165,15 +174,6 @@ static int read_dump_header(char *file) machine_type_mismatch(file, "PPC64", NULL, 0)) goto err; - if (header->block_size != block_size) { - error(INFO, "%s: block size in the dump header does not match" - " with system page size\n", - DISKDUMP_VALID() ? "diskdump" : "compressed kdump"); - goto err; - } - dd->block_size = block_size; - dd->block_shift = ffs(block_size) - 1; - if (sizeof(*header) + sizeof(void *) * header->nr_cpus > block_size || header->nr_cpus <= 0) { error(INFO, "%s: invalid nr_cpus value: %d\n",