From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757104AbXGPETY (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:19:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751113AbXGPETS (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:19:18 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:58709 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750817AbXGPETR (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:19:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:49:19 +0530 From: Vivek Goyal To: "Ken'ichi Ohmichi" , Neil Horman , kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bernhard Walle Subject: Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore Message-ID: <20070716041918.GA11390@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com References: <20070710120243.GA10121@hmsendeavour.rdu.redhat.com> <20070713200533oomichi@mail.jp.nec.com> <20070713131550.GB10985@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070713131550.GB10985@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 03:15:50PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2007-07-13 13:05]: > > > > BTW, I'd like to remove PAGESIZE from a mkdfinfo file. > > While 2nd-kernel is running, new makedumpfile comes to consider > > 2nd-kernel PAGESIZE as 1st-kernel PAGESIZE without getting PAGESIZE > > from a mkdfinfo file. > > I don't think that's a good idea. IMO the kernel should be modified to > export the page size in a variable for that purpose. That would solve > all problems and dependencies, doesn't it? > Agreed. We need to export PAGESIZE from kernel instead of assuming that second kernel as got same page size as first kernel. Thanks Vivek