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Commit 1df57c0c authored by Cliff Wickman's avatar Cliff Wickman Committed by Tony Luck
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[IA64] enable dumps to capture second page of kernel stack



In SLES10 (2.6.16) crash dumping (in my experience, LKCD) is unable to
capture the second page of the 2-page task/stack allocation.
This is particularly troublesome for dump analysis, as the stack traceback
cannot be done.
  (A similar convention is probably needed throughout the kernel to make
   kernel multi-page allocations detectable for dumping)

Multi-page kernel allocations are represented by the single page structure
associated with the first page of the allocation.  The page structures
associated with the other pages are unintialized.

If the dumper is selecting only kernel pages it has no way to identify
any but the first page of the allocation.

The fix is to make the task/stack allocation a compound page.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
parent dd4cb9f8
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