From: Horms Make saved_max_pfn point to max_pfn of entire system. Without this patch is so that vmcore is zero length on ia64. This is because saved_max_pfn was wrongly being set to the max_pfn of the crash kernel's address space, rather than the max_pfg on the physical memory of the machine - the whole purpose of vmcore is to access physical memory that is not part of the crash kernel's addresss space. Updated for recent changes in Linus' tree. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai Sort-Of-Acked-By: Jay Lan Cc: "Luck, Tony" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c | 6 ++++++ arch/ia64/mm/contig.c | 5 ----- arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c | 6 ------ 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c~ia64-point-saved_max_pfn-to-the-max_pfn-of-the-entire-system arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c~ia64-point-saved_max_pfn-to-the-max_pfn-of-the-entire-system +++ a/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ * Skip non-WB memory and ignore empty memory ranges. */ #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -1009,6 +1010,11 @@ efi_memmap_init(unsigned long *s, unsign } else ae = efi_md_end(md); +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP + /* saved_max_pfn should ignore max_addr= command line arg */ + if (saved_max_pfn < (ae >> PAGE_SHIFT)) + saved_max_pfn = (ae >> PAGE_SHIFT); +#endif /* keep within max_addr= and min_addr= command line arg */ as = max(as, min_addr); ae = min(ae, max_addr); diff -puN arch/ia64/mm/contig.c~ia64-point-saved_max_pfn-to-the-max_pfn-of-the-entire-system arch/ia64/mm/contig.c --- a/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c~ia64-point-saved_max_pfn-to-the-max_pfn-of-the-entire-system +++ a/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c @@ -197,11 +197,6 @@ find_memory (void) find_initrd(); -#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP - /* If we are doing a crash dump, we still need to know the real mem - * size before original memory map is reset. */ - saved_max_pfn = max_pfn; -#endif } #ifdef CONFIG_SMP diff -puN arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c~ia64-point-saved_max_pfn-to-the-max_pfn-of-the-entire-system arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c --- a/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c~ia64-point-saved_max_pfn-to-the-max_pfn-of-the-entire-system +++ a/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c @@ -480,12 +480,6 @@ void __init find_memory(void) max_pfn = max_low_pfn; find_initrd(); - -#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP - /* If we are doing a crash dump, we still need to know the real mem - * size before original memory map is reset. */ - saved_max_pfn = max_pfn; -#endif } #ifdef CONFIG_SMP _