On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:37:16PM +0900, Ken'ichi Ohmichi wrote:
> 
> Hi, Vivek.
> 
> I applied all your patches to linux 2.6.16-mm1, and did kdump on my i386
> machine with 8GB memory. But the problem that vmcore is truncated and
> limited to 4GB wasn't solved.

Hi, Thanks for testing it out. 


> # cat /proc/cmdline
> root=LABEL=/123 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> # kexec -p /boot/vmlinux-2.6.16-mm1-kdump.capture --args-linux \
> > --elf64-core-headers --initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.16-mm1-kdump.capture.img \
> > --append="root=LABEL=/123 init 3"

command line looks ok. For future testings, you can also specify "irqpoll"
option to reduce the chances of driver initialization failing in second 
kernel.


> # echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
> 
> (capture-kernel is booting.)
> 
> # uname -r
> 2.6.16-mm1-kdump.capture
> # free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         60516      53552       6964          0       1420      11756
> -/+ buffers/cache:      40376      20140
> Swap:      2096472      24216    2072256
> # ll /proc/vmcore
> -r--------  1 root root 4226876448  3月 30 10:58 /proc/vmcore
> #

There was one more patch from maneesh to resolve the /proc/vmcore size 
issue. On my system even if dump size was more than 4G, but /proc/vmcore
was not showing it correctly. Once I copied it to disk, size was correct.

Can you please apply following patch also.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114322483016676&w=2

In fact all these patches are now in -mm2. So can directly test it with -mm2
without applying any additional patches. Copy the dump to the disk and it
should be of right size. If it is not, can you please also provide me the
output of /proc/iomem from the first kernel.

Thanks
Vivek
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