Problem while booting kdump kernel on IBM x3500

From: Ciju Rajan K
Date: Fri Nov 21 2008 - 08:18:12 EST


Hi All,

We are seeing a problem with kdump on IBM x3500 box. The kdump kernel is
panicking. The call trace is consistent in each time.

This is the serial console log for 2.6.28-rc5 kernel.

mx3500:~ # echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
SysRq : Trigger a crashdump
BIOS EBDA/lowmem at: 0009c400/0009c400
Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Linux version 2.6.28-rc5-2-default (root@mx3500) (gcc version 4.3.2
[gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP Tue Nov 18
18:28:35 IST 2008
Command line: root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SServeRA_Label_1_C94BBDA8-part1
resume=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SServeRA_Label_1_C94BBDA8-part3
splash=silent earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,38400 irqpoll maxcpus=1
memmap=exactmap memmap=640K@0K memmap=130412K@66176K elfcorehdr=196588K
memmap=40K#3145088K memmap=88K#3145128K
KERNEL supported cpus:
Intel GenuineIntel
AMD AuthenticAMD
Centaur CentaurHauls
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000100 - 000000000009c400 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009c400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d6000 - 00000000000d8000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bff60000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bff60000 - 00000000bff6a000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bff6a000 - 00000000bff80000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bff80000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 (usable)
console [earlyser0] enabled
last_pfn = 0x140000 max_arch_pfn = 0x3ffffffff
user-defined physical RAM map:
user: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
user: 00000000040a0000 - 000000000bffb000 (usable)
user: 00000000bff60000 - 00000000bff80000 (ACPI data)
DMI present.
last_pfn = 0xbffb max_arch_pfn = 0x3ffffffff
x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7010600070106, new 0x7010600070106
init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-000000000bffb000
last_map_addr: bffb000 end: bffb000
RAMDISK: 0b446000 - 0bfee6bd
ACPI: RSDP 000F6710, 0014 (r0 PTLTD )
ACPI: RSDT BFF63C23, 003C (r1 PTLTD RSDT 6040000 LTP 0)
ACPI: FACP BFF69E48, 0074 (r1 INTEL 6040000 PTL 3)
ACPI: DSDT BFF6504B, 4DFD (r1 Intel BLAKFORD 6040000 MSFT 100000E)
ACPI: FACS BFF6AFC0, 0040
ACPI: APIC BFF69EBC, 0090 (r1 PTLTD APIC 6040000 LTP 0)
ACPI: MCFG BFF69F4C, 003C (r1 PTLTD MCFG 6040000 LTP 0)
ACPI: BOOT BFF69F88, 0028 (r1 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 6040000 LTP 1)
ACPI: SPCR BFF69FB0, 0050 (r1 PTLTD $UCRTBL$ 6040000 PTL 1)
ACPI: SSDT BFF63C5F, 13EC (r1 PmRef CpuPm 3000 INTL 20050228)
(6 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 000bffb000]
#0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 -
0000001000]
#1 [0000006000 - 0000008000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 -
0000008000]
#2 [0004200000 - 00048e9618] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0004200000 -
00048e9618]
#3 [000b446000 - 000bfee6bd] RAMDISK ==> [000b446000 -
000bfee6bd]
#4 [000009c400 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009c400 -
0000100000]
#5 [0000008000 - 0000009000] PGTABLE ==> [0000008000 -
0000009000]
found SMP MP-table at [ffff8800000f6740] 000f6740
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00001000
DMA32 0x00001000 -> 0x00100000
Normal 0x00100000 -> 0x00100000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
0: 0x00000000 -> 0x000000a0
0: 0x000040a0 -> 0x0000bffb
PANIC: early exception 02 rip 10:ffffffff803fab70 error 0 cr2
7f1a7915b000
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.28-rc5-2-default #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80797195>] early_idt_handler+0x55/0x69
[<ffffffff803fab70>] ? read_pci_config_16+0x47/0x98
[<ffffffff807a14c2>] early_quirks+0x33/0x127
[<ffffffff8079c028>] setup_arch+0x698/0x730
[<ffffffff807979d7>] start_kernel+0x77/0x45c
[<ffffffff80797296>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xa5/0xa9
[<ffffffff80797392>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xd5/0xdc
RIP 0x10

Any suggestions / solutions ?

Thank you in advance,
Ciju


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