Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:52:55 -0800 (PST) | From | Matt Robinson <> | Subject | Re: kiobuf using kernel pages |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Alan Cox wrote: |>> Trying to port the SGI lcrash code to 2.3.26 ix86. It compiles, runs, |>> traps the oops, starts writing the dump to swap, dies with -EFAULT in |>> sd_raw_rw. My guess is because the buffer address is c2c00000, i.e. I |> |>Firstly if your machine has crashed I wouldnt recommend invoking the scsi |>disk layer. If your partition info is corrupt or the scsi malloc pool is |>corrupt you could hit anything.
Considering it's to a swap partition, I doubt there's a problem here. The SCBs should be doing to the device specified by /dev/vmdump - no other.
--Matt
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