Bug 475505

Summary: need to add code to exclude gart region from vmcore
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Neil Horman <nhorman>
Component: kexec-toolsAssignee: Neil Horman <nhorman>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Version: 5.2CC: dchapman, mgahagan, qcai, syeghiay
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Description Neil Horman 2008-12-09 15:37:04 UTC
Created attachment 326335 [details]
patch to exclude gart region

Description of problem:
need to add  the attached patch to kexec so that we don't reset a box accedentally by reading the gart region through /proc/vmcore

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Comment 1 Doug Chapman 2008-12-09 15:43:51 UTC
FYI the upstream commit for this is:

commit 56dd669a138c40ea6cdae487f233430d12372767
Author: Aaron Durbin <adurbin>
Date:   Tue Sep 26 10:52:40 2006 +0200

    [PATCH] Insert GART region into resource map
    
    Patch inserts the GART region into the iomem resource map. The GART will the
    be visible within /proc/iomem. It will also allow for other users
    utilizing the GART to subreserve the region (agp or IOMMU).
    
    Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin>
    Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak>

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 21:00:46 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0105.html