Re: kdump: quad core Opteron

2008-12-09 Thread Bob Montgomery
, thanks for coding this up. Bob Montgomery ___ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec

Re: kdump: quad core Opteron

2008-12-08 Thread Bob Montgomery
that all looks good. Then the next LOAD is also at 2400 with a 0 in the size fields. I haven't had a chance to check the code yet. Bob Montgomery ___ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec

Re: Trying to test my gart/iommu vmcore problem on RH

2008-09-23 Thread Bob Montgomery
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 02:29 +, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Bob Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And that leads to the Kdump IO Rule: The primary kernel is responsible for setting up any necessary conditions to allow the kdump kernel to perform its required

Re: Trying to test my gart/iommu vmcore problem on RH

2008-09-22 Thread Bob Montgomery
by the kdump kernel, remapped by the Intel IOMMU to those same addresses (iova equals physical address within the Crash kernel area). This all assumes no virtual machine stuff yet. Possible? Comments? Corrections? Bob Montgomery ___ kexec

Re: Trying to test my gart/iommu vmcore problem on RH

2008-09-09 Thread Bob Montgomery
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 15:12 +, Vivek Goyal wrote: Nice summary Bob. Few thoughts. - So until and unless one is reserving memory for crashkernel above 4G, there is no need for initializing the IOMMU in second kernel (At this moment I am not too worried about need of isolation in second

Re: Trying to test my gart/iommu vmcore problem on RH

2008-09-04 Thread Bob Montgomery
to copy the result into the real buffer. What considerations have I missed? Bob Montgomery (vacation last week) ___ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec

Re: AMD Family 10H machine check on vmcore read

2008-07-09 Thread Bob Montgomery
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 13:28 +, Vivek Goyal wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 05:08:06PM -0600, Bob Montgomery wrote: We maintain a 2.6.18 derived kernel. When testing kdump on a new AMD Family 10h (16) processor, once in the kdump kernel, a read from either /proc/vmcore or /dev/oldmem

AMD Family 10H machine check on vmcore read

2008-07-07 Thread Bob Montgomery
it be excluded from the /proc/vmcore list of areas?? Thanks for any insights, Bob Montgomery ___ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec