Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:00:50 +0100
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
        Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kdump broken on 2.6.37-rc4
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On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 08:29:01PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> please check
> 
> [PATCH] x86, crashkernel, 32bit: only try to get range under 512M
> 
> Steanishlaw report kdump is 32bit is broken.
LOL

> in misc.c for decompresser, it will do sanity checking to make sure heap
> heap under 512M.
> 
> So limit it in first kernel under 512M for 32bit system.
> 
> Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>

Patch fix problem on my T-60 laptop.

As expected patch does not help on my other T-500 x86_64 system,
kdump not work there, but perhaps this is a different problem,
I'm going to check it.

Stanislaw
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