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Description of problem:

The system's EFI memory map is not included in an ia64 kdump vmcore.

This is evidenced by running the crash utility against it, where
the following warning message is displayed during initialization:

  WARNING: EFI memory verification will not be performed

Also, if during the crash session the "mach -m" command is attempted,
it will fail like so:

  crash> mach -m
  mach: efi_mmap not accessible



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. run crash utility on ia64 kdump vmcore
2. run "mach -m" during crash session
3.

Actual Results:
Note "WARNING: EFI memory verification will not be performed" during
invocation.  

During session, "mach -m" command fails with: "mach: efi_mmap not accessible"

Expected Results:
No initialization-time WARNING should be displayed, and the "mach -m"
command should dump the contents of the EFI memory map.



Additional info:

The reason that this occurs is because the system's EFI memory map
is not being copied to the kdump vmcore.  This issue has been addressed
in these fastboot mailing list patches from nanhai.zou:

  http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/fastboot/2006-August/003677.html
  http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/fastboot/2006-August/003678.html

When asked on 10/12/06 whether the patches above are still valid,
Zou Nan hai replied: 

> Yes, please include the 2 patches.
> The first patch is to fix Kexec from a Kexeced kernel issue.
> The second patch will fix the EFI memmap not included issue.
>
> Thanks 
> Zou Nan hai