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SubjectRe: kexec/kdump kernel fails to start

* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 11:34:25PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.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@gmail.com> 2012-03-05 20:05:13
> >> > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.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
> >>
> >> There was some attempt to fix this:
> >> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1195751/
> >>
> >> but for some reason it is not accepted.
> >
> > I filed a bug for this:
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47881
> >
> > Is it fixed now?
>
> that offending patch should be reverted...
>
> 722bc6b16771ed80871e1fd81c86d3627dda2ac8

It does not revert cleanly - could someone send a (kexec
tested!) patch with a proper description?

Thanks,

Ingo


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