From owner-lkcd@oss.sgi.com Mon May 7 16:16:52 2001 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f47NGq025533 for lkcd-outgoing; Mon, 7 May 2001 16:16:52 -0700 Received: from mg03.austin.ibm.com (mg03.austin.ibm.com [192.35.232.20]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f47NGpF25530 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 16:16:52 -0700 Received: from austin.ibm.com (netmail1.austin.ibm.com [9.53.250.96]) by mg03.austin.ibm.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA14378; Mon, 7 May 2001 18:18:26 -0500 Received: from craft.austin.ibm.com (craft.austin.ibm.com [9.53.145.12]) by austin.ibm.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA25476; Mon, 7 May 2001 18:16:48 -0500 Received: (from dcraft@localhost) by craft.austin.ibm.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.7-client1.01) id SAA32410; Mon, 7 May 2001 18:16:48 -0500 From: Dave Craft Message-Id: <200105072316.SAA32410@craft.austin.ibm.com> Subject: Re: LKCD 3.1.2 released ... To: yakker@alacritech.com (Matt D. Robinson) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 18:16:47 -0500 (CDT) Cc: lkcd@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <3AE8568A.E4DA5562@alacritech.com> from "Matt D. Robinson" at Apr 26, 2001 10:10:34 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-lkcd@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Any more info on timeline for availability of RH 7.1 diffs? The diff version I've produced (based off the official 2.4.1 kernel diff) is hanging right after attempting to dump the header. Probably something I've done but I won't spend the time debugging it if you've got something official coming out shortly. Regards, dave > >"Matt D. Robinson" wrote: >> >> The latest LKCD update is available. The only >> changes are to the lkcdutils RPM for x86. I'm still >> testing 2.4.3 kernels (and RH7.1), once that's done, >> I'll spin put out the kernel patches in a 3.1.3 >> release. >> >> I'm trying to address the smp_send_stop() issue, so >> please bear with me. >> >> --Matt > >For those of you that downloaded lkcdutils-1.0-3 ... >Please get lkcdutils-1.0-4, there's one additional fix >for reverse wraparound in some graphics screens, and >also I've fixed a spec file error for those people >trying to do 'rpm --rebuild'. > >--Matt > -- Mail : dave@austin.ibm.com Phone : 512-838-8248 I am Jack's email closing From owner-lkcd@oss.sgi.com Mon May 14 07:28:29 2001 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4EESTb13623 for lkcd-outgoing; Mon, 14 May 2001 07:28:29 -0700 Received: from hypnos.cps.intel.com (hypnos.cps.intel.com [192.198.165.17]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4EESTF13620 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 07:28:29 -0700 Received: from SMTP (fmsmsxvs03-1.fm.intel.com [132.233.42.203]) by hypnos.cps.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.38 2001/05/09 12:49:45 root Exp $) with SMTP id OAA00801 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 14:28:20 GMT Received: from fmsmsx19.fm.intel.com ([132.233.48.19]) by 132.233.48.203 (Norton AntiVirus for Internet Email Gateways 1.0) ; Mon, 14 May 2001 14:28:19 0000 (GMT) Received: by fmsmsx19.fm.intel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 07:28:18 -0700 Message-ID: From: "Gevorkov, Alla" To: "'lkcd@oss.sgi.com'" Subject: lcrash Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 07:28:14 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-lkcd@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hello, I've tried to install and run lcrash on my machine, but got the following error: #lcrash -s /System.map-2.2.16-3 /tmp Error: kl_check_type() on dumpdev failed! Could you please help me to debug it? Thank you in advance, Alla Gevorkov From owner-lkcd@oss.sgi.com Mon May 14 08:18:49 2001 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4EFInx14868 for lkcd-outgoing; Mon, 14 May 2001 08:18:49 -0700 Received: from nakedeye.aparity.com (w032.z064001165.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.165.32]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4EFImF14865 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 08:18:48 -0700 Received: from alacritech.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by nakedeye.aparity.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4EEGpW11748; Mon, 14 May 2001 07:16:52 -0700 Message-ID: <3AFFE8D3.3FF9549@alacritech.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 07:16:51 -0700 From: "Matt D. Robinson" Organization: Alacritech, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gevorkov, Alla" CC: "'lkcd@oss.sgi.com'" Subject: Re: lcrash References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-lkcd@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk "Gevorkov, Alla" wrote: > > Hello, > > I've tried to install and run lcrash on my machine, but got the following > error: > > #lcrash -s /System.map-2.2.16-3 /tmp > Error: kl_check_type() on dumpdev failed! > > Could you please help me to debug it? > > Thank you in advance, > Alla Gevorkov Hmmm ... looks like your -s arguments are wrong: lcrash -s So, /tmp can be right, if that's where you want to save your crash dump, but (the first argument after -s) needs to be some device where the dump can be read from, such as /dev/vmdump, or /dev/sda1, or wherever it is stored. --Matt From owner-lkcd@oss.sgi.com Wed May 16 09:25:01 2001 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4GGP1a11268 for lkcd-outgoing; Wed, 16 May 2001 09:25:01 -0700 Received: from ureach.com (mail.ureach.com [63.150.151.36]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4GGP0F11264 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 09:25:00 -0700 Received: from www21.ureach.com (IDENT:root@www21.ureach.com [172.16.2.49]) by ureach.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA11230 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 12:24:53 -0400 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www21.ureach.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA10591; Wed, 16 May 2001 12:24:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:24:55 -0400 Message-Id: <200105161624.MAA10591@www21.ureach.com> To: lkcd@oss.sgi.com From: Kapish K Reply-to: Subject: memory range?? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-vsuite-type: e Sender: owner-lkcd@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hello, I was looking through the lkcd documentation and have a few queries that I would like to seek calrification upon. When we talk of dumping memory, what are we talking of? the whole real memory or virtual memory? What does the memory_start and memory_end flags imply? I understand that they indicate the range of memory that is to be dumped...and I see that memory_start is set to PAGE_OFFSET. So, we are talking of vm here? Or am I totally wrong? Kindly clarify. Any pointers would be most welcome. TIA ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag From owner-lkcd@oss.sgi.com Wed May 16 11:29:18 2001 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4GITIx15198 for lkcd-outgoing; Wed, 16 May 2001 11:29:18 -0700 Received: from smtp.alacritech.com (smtp.alacritech.com [209.10.208.82]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4GITHF15195 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 11:29:17 -0700 Received: from alacritech.com (lambda.alacritech.com [10.1.1.32]) by smtp.alacritech.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4GIPoK22822; Wed, 16 May 2001 11:25:50 -0700 Message-ID: <3B02C5ED.C30B4D15@alacritech.com> Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:24:45 -0700 From: "Matt D. Robinson" Organization: Alacritech, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kapish@ureach.com CC: lkcd@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: memory range?? References: <200105161624.MAA10591@www21.ureach.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-lkcd@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Kapish K wrote: > > Hello, > I was looking through the lkcd documentation and have a few > queries that I would like to seek calrification upon. > When we talk of dumping memory, what are we talking of? the > whole real memory or virtual memory? > What does the memory_start and memory_end flags imply? I > understand that they indicate the range of memory that is to be > dumped...and I see that memory_start is set to PAGE_OFFSET. So, > we are talking of vm here? > Or am I totally wrong? Kindly clarify. Any pointers would be > most welcome. > TIA The intention is to dump all of virtual memory -- starting at the base of the kernel memory and walking through to the end (whether it be by memory_start/memory_end, in 2.2 or going through the page address (page_address(0) -> page_address(max_mapnr)). Does that answer your question? --Matt P.S. This is going to change soon to deal with CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM. > > ________________________________________________ > Get your own "800" number > Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more > http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag From owner-lkcd@oss.sgi.com Thu May 17 11:24:17 2001 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4HIOHU20276 for lkcd-outgoing; Thu, 17 May 2001 11:24:17 -0700 Received: from smtp.alacritech.com (smtp.alacritech.com [209.10.208.82]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4HIOHF20273 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 11:24:17 -0700 Received: from alacritech.com (lambda.alacritech.com [10.1.1.32]) by smtp.alacritech.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4HILQK23109; Thu, 17 May 2001 11:21:26 -0700 Message-ID: <3B04163F.ECE2288D@alacritech.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 11:19:43 -0700 From: "Matt D. Robinson" Organization: Alacritech, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Craft CC: lkcd@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: LKCD 3.1.2 released ... References: <200105072316.SAA32410@craft.austin.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-lkcd@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Dave Craft wrote: > > Any more info on timeline for availability of RH 7.1 > diffs? The diff version I've produced (based off the > official 2.4.1 kernel diff) is hanging right after attempting > to dump the header. Probably something I've done but > I won't spend the time debugging it if you've got something > official coming out shortly. > > Regards, > dave I'm working on it. I just got 7.1 installed. To get this to work, you just have to turn off smp_send_stop() in both panic.c and arch/i386/kernel/traps.c (the places where the patch adds the code). I'm considering someone's workaround, or just to comment out the disable_local_APIC(). Not sure what the right thing to do is yet. --Matt > > > >"Matt D. Robinson" wrote: > >> > >> The latest LKCD update is available. The only > >> changes are to the lkcdutils RPM for x86. I'm still > >> testing 2.4.3 kernels (and RH7.1), once that's done, > >> I'll spin put out the kernel patches in a 3.1.3 > >> release. > >> > >> I'm trying to address the smp_send_stop() issue, so > >> please bear with me. > >> > >> --Matt > > > >For those of you that downloaded lkcdutils-1.0-3 ... > >Please get lkcdutils-1.0-4, there's one additional fix > >for reverse wraparound in some graphics screens, and > >also I've fixed a spec file error for those people > >trying to do 'rpm --rebuild'. > > > >--Matt > > > > -- > Mail : dave@austin.ibm.com Phone : 512-838-8248 > I am Jack's email closing From owner-lkcd@oss.sgi.com Thu May 31 12:46:26 2001 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4VJkQ303025 for lkcd-outgoing; Thu, 31 May 2001 12:46:26 -0700 Received: from sgi.com (sgi.SGI.COM [192.48.153.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f4VJkHh03012 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 12:46:17 -0700 Received: from thalia.fm.intel.com (fmfdns02.fm.intel.com [132.233.247.11]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id MAA07945 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 12:46:13 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (david.p.howell@intel.com) Received: from SMTP (fmsmsxvs02-1.fm.intel.com [132.233.42.202]) by thalia.fm.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.39 2001/05/18 00:47:02 root Exp $) with SMTP id TAA17807; Thu, 31 May 2001 19:46:05 GMT Received: from fmsmsx29.FM.INTEL.COM ([132.233.48.29]) by 132.233.48.202 (Norton AntiVirus for Internet Email Gateways 1.0) ; Thu, 31 May 2001 19:46:05 0000 (GMT) Received: by fmsmsx29.fm.intel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 12:46:03 -0700 Message-ID: <10C8636AE359D4119118009027AE998705EA3FB1@FMSMSX34> From: "Howell, David P" To: "'Matt D. Robinson'" , Dave Craft Cc: lkcd@oss.sgi.com Subject: RE: LKCD 3.1.2 released ... Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 12:45:55 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-lkcd@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Matt, Thanks for the workaround, I stubbed out the smp_send_stop() calls in panic() and trap() and now I'm getting a full dump. Any word on when the official fix for RH 7.1 will be out? I've checked the LKCD page for updates a few times and didn't yet see an update posted. Regards, Dave Howell -----Original Message----- From: Matt D. Robinson [mailto:yakker@alacritech.com] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:20 PM To: Dave Craft Cc: lkcd@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: LKCD 3.1.2 released ... Dave Craft wrote: > > Any more info on timeline for availability of RH 7.1 > diffs? The diff version I've produced (based off the > official 2.4.1 kernel diff) is hanging right after attempting > to dump the header. Probably something I've done but > I won't spend the time debugging it if you've got something > official coming out shortly. > > Regards, > dave I'm working on it. I just got 7.1 installed. To get this to work, you just have to turn off smp_send_stop() in both panic.c and arch/i386/kernel/traps.c (the places where the patch adds the code). I'm considering someone's workaround, or just to comment out the disable_local_APIC(). Not sure what the right thing to do is yet. --Matt > > > >"Matt D. Robinson" wrote: > >> > >> The latest LKCD update is available. The only > >> changes are to the lkcdutils RPM for x86. I'm still > >> testing 2.4.3 kernels (and RH7.1), once that's done, > >> I'll spin put out the kernel patches in a 3.1.3 > >> release. > >> > >> I'm trying to address the smp_send_stop() issue, so > >> please bear with me. > >> > >> --Matt > > > >For those of you that downloaded lkcdutils-1.0-3 ... > >Please get lkcdutils-1.0-4, there's one additional fix > >for reverse wraparound in some graphics screens, and > >also I've fixed a spec file error for those people > >trying to do 'rpm --rebuild'. > > > >--Matt > > > > -- > Mail : dave@austin.ibm.com Phone : 512-838-8248 > I am Jack's email closing