Bug 205720
Summary: | modinfo on diskdump kernel module is not displaying kernel parameters | ||||||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Riaan van Niekerk <riaanvn> | ||||
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Takao Indoh <tindoh> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 4.0 | CC: | anderson, jbaron, lwang | ||||
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Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2011-09-13 16:28:34 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Riaan van Niekerk
2006-09-08 08:00:35 UTC
Created attachment 149471 [details]
linux-2.6.9-diskdump-parmdesc.patch
This patch fixes the problem. With the patch, "modinfo diskdump" shows the
following:
# modinfo diskdump
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.9-49.ELfj1smp/kernel/drivers/block/diskdump.ko
license: GPL
parm: compress:Specify whether compression for dump data is enabled
or not. The default value is 0, which means that memory pages will be dumped
without compression. If the value is 1, memory pages will be compressed using
the deflation algorithm, GZIP.
parm: dump_level:A memory collection level that specifies which
memory pages will be dumped. Default value of 0 dumps all pages of physical RAM
into the vmcore file. To avoid excessively large vmcore files, page cache
pages, zero-filled pages, free pages, and user application pages may be
eliminated from the file. Please refer README in diskdumputils package for more
detail of each value
parm: sample_rate:Determine how many blocks in the dump partition are
verified before actual memory dumping begins. Default value is 8, which means
one of every "1<<8" (256) blocks are verified. Specifying zero means all blocks
in the partition are verified, and a minus value disables verification.
parm: block_order:Specifies the dump-time I/O block size. Default
value is 2, which sets the I/O block size equal to "page-size << 2", or 16
kbytes on an i386 machine. Larger values may make for better performance, but
occupies more module memory.
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.9-49.ELfj1smp SMP gcc-3.4
User ntachino's account has been closed please give the patch in comment#1, linux-2.6.9-diskdump-parmdesc.patch a try, and let us know if it works for you or not. Unfortunately I do not have a system set up to try out this patch. I have looked at the patch as well as the usage (modinfo diskdump) and both look OK. If you want more definite confirmation, please generate a test RPM package, and I will test that instead. This is very old bz and I think as of now nobody needs this, so I close this bz. Please reopen if anyone need this. |