using hugepages/hugepagesz causes kexec'd kernel to OOM
Bug #1634132 reported by
Chris J Arges
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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makedumpfile (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
|
Chris J Arges | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Chris J Arges | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Chris J Arges | ||
Yakkety |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Chris J Arges | ||
Zesty |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Louis Bouchard |
Bug Description
[Impact]
Users of kdump won't be able to dump if their system uses hugepages/
[Test Case]
1) Install crashdump
2) Boot machine with hugepages= or hugepagesz= set to a significant amount of memory
3) Try to crash with 'echo 'c' | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-
[Regression Potential]
If users really want to have hugepages/
This patch should also potentially go upstream.
Changed in makedumpfile (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Chris J Arges (arges) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → In Progress |
tags: | added: patch |
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