linux-kernel - Re: kexec/kdump kernel fails to start

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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQUEHbDySWHWFj6kW=HGLR0vkbaJWRq+7kMMHGhBm8e08A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 4 Sep 2012 12:02:00 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, ianfang.cn@...il.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: kexec/kdump kernel fails to start

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have system that no longer boots kdump kernel. Basically,
>
> # echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
>
> to dump a vmcore doesn't work. It just hangs after showing the usual
> panic messages. I've bisected the problem and the commit introducing
> the issue is the one below.
>
> Any idea?
>
> commit 722bc6b16771ed80871e1fd81c86d3627dda2ac8
> Author: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>  2012-03-05 20:05:13
> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>  2012-03-06 05:38:26
> Parent: 550cf00dbc8ee402bef71628cb71246493dd4500 (Merge tag 'mmc-fixes-for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc)
> Child:  a6fca40f1d7f3e232c9de27c1cebbb9f787fbc4f (x86, tlb: Switch cr3 in leave_mm() only when needed)
> Branches: master, remotes/origin/master
> Follows: v3.3-rc6
> Precedes: v3.5-rc1
>
>     x86/mm: Fix the size calculation of mapping tables
>
>     For machines that enable PSE, the first 2/4M memory region still uses
>     4K pages, so needs more PTEs in this case, but
>     find_early_table_space() doesn't count this.
>
>     This patch fixes it.
>
>     The bug was found via code review, no misbehavior of the kernel
>     was observed.

maybe just revert the offending commit?

Thanks

Yinghai
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