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Message-ID: <20090605092014.GA8354@cr0.nay.redhat.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:20:14 +0800 From: Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> To: Tao Ma <tao.ma@...cle.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: /proc/kcore has a unreasonable size(281474974617600) in x86_64 2.6.30-rc8. On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:01:00PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote: >>>>>>> I just noticed this when kexec fails in "Can't find kernel >>>>>>> text map area from kcore". >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is there something wrong? >>>>>> It looks like that error message is from userspace? >>>>> I just started kdump and get the error message. >>>> IIRC, kdump should use /proc/vmcore, instead of /proc/kcore... >>>> nothing related. >>> in el5, when start kdump service it will do something like >>> /sbin/kexec --args-linux -p '--command-line=ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb >>> quiet irqpoll maxcpus=1' >>> --initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.18-53.el5kdump.img >>> /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.el5 >>> >>> And the error message is from there. >> >>> From /sbin/kexec? I just checked the source code of kexec-tools, >> I haven't found that message... > No, it is there. > See kexec-tools-1.101-reloc-update.patch. > src rpm is kexec-tools-1.101-194.4.el5.src.rpm. So it is a patch from el5. Oh, I used the original source code without any extral patches.. Thanks for your reply. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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