On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:25:54PM +0530, Chandru wrote: > On a powerpc machine when memory is dynamically removed/added from an lpar, > the > corresponding flags field in the drconf memory reflects the same with the > bits > unset/set accordingly. The kernel does a check on these flags while booting. > Following are the similar changes brought in to kexec-tools. This makes > kexec-tools to skip those memory regions that do not belong or are not > assigned to the current partition ( but are available to dynamically add them > back ). Without this patch (and with memory remove operation) copying vmcore > fails with error as > > Copying data : [ 84 %] readmem: Can't read the dump > memory(/proc/vmcore). Bad address > read_pfn: Can't get the page data. > > > Signed-off-by : Chandru S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks, applied. -- Simon Horman VA Linux Systems Japan K.K., Sydney, Australia Satellite Office H: www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: www.valinux.co.jp/en _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
