IA64: a missing patch: fix-paddr-vmcore-ELF

[jlan at sgi.com (Jay Lan)]

Horms wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 07:07:14PM -0800, Jay Lan wrote:
>> I found this patch from Nan-hai was missing in your git tree.
>> I do not have the url of his original posting, but here is the
>> content. :)
> 
> Thanks, I have applied this.
> 
> This is actually the second time its been applied, unfortunately it got
> reverted as part of the crash_create_elf64_headers() patch,
> f038d30bff8510a1df1e72af08db1766581d1f2c.

I found problem in the crash_create_elf64_headers() patch more than
this one. For example, when calculating the size, the nr_cpus should not
be a long. It is an int. It will cause problem only when initializing
the crash utility.

However, even after reverting f038d30bff8510a1df1e72af08db1766581d1f2c
i still had problem in booting up a crashdump kernel on SN platform.
I saw many many "Bad state" and "Bad pte" errors, probably when trying
to create the vmcore.

- jay