From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja-JP; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Checking dump partition fails when a swap partition whose size is less than memory size is configured for diskdump. A swap partition as well as a normal dump partition should be configured for diskdump even if the size of the partition is less than memory size only when "dump_level" and/or "compress" that are module parameters are specified as non-zero value. In other words, check_swap_partition() in diskdump.c should not restrict the size of a swap partition when partial dump or compressed dump is enabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-25 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a swap partition whose size is less than memory size. 2. Edit /etc/syscofig/diskdump so as to configure the swap partition as a dump device. 3. Run "service diskdump start" so as to start diskdump service. 4. Run "service diskdump status" so as to check that diskdump is enabled. 5. Panic the system. Actual Results: Checking dump partition fails. Expected Results: Checking dump partition succeeds. Then diskdump starts dumping memory. Additional info:
I've just posted the patch to rhkernel-list. Thanks, Akira
committed in stream U4 build 34.14. A test kernel with this patch is available from http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/
This issue is on Red Hat Engineering's list of planned work items for the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4 release. Engineering resources have been assigned and barring unforeseen circumstances, Red Hat intends to include this item in the 4.4 release.
We have done testing of this BZ. There are no regressions and unfixed bugs. So, I change the status to VERIFIED.
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 the 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/RHSA-2006-0575.html