Comment 3 for bug 1655625

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-01-13 01:20 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #12)
> Hello,
>
> First of all, two of the listed crash patches are in the 7.1.5-1ubuntu2
> package awaiting in zesty-proposed. It is blocked there by an FTBS on z390x.
> But even with those patches, it still fails so I assume that the other three
> patches are also needed.
>

6 missing commits were listed for crash utility. Just to be sure that you haven't
missed noticing them all.

> But while trying to test your solution on x86_64, it turns out that it still
> fails with your patches. I suspect that other patches are needed for this
> specific architecture.
>
> Regarding your makedumpfile patches, as far as I can tell,they are not
> required for the crash command to work. They will only improve the filtering
> of some specific kind of pages.
>

Observed that some necessary pages are excluded without these patches leading to
traces like below while running crash utility

crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: <> type: "fill_task_struct"

Thanks
Hari