Matt,
I created a dump device using mknod vmdump block 3 5, where 3 and 5 are the
major and minor numbers for the swap device of /dev/hda5 and pointed
DUMPDEV to /dev/vmdump.
I also prior to that I did see the line in dmesg:
vmdump: dump device opened: 0x305
Also, I added some printk's to the beginning of all the routines inside of
vmdump.c, and noticed that it is indeed calling some of them, including
dump_compress and I think dump_page_add (or something like that),
repeatedly until it or something crashes. The code line at the crash is:
88 44 24 12 3a 44 24 13 75 06 47 e9 9b 00 00 00 83 ff 01 7e
Any thoughts?
Ben Pracht
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