[Crash-utility] Trying to read an 80GB PPC64 crash dump with little luck

[James Washer]

Trying to investigate a SLES10SP1 crash dump

Using crash 4.0-7.6

Using -d9, I get the following just before crash gives up. 

Any ideas?

thanks
 - jim


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GETBUF(248 -> 0)
  GETBUF(1500 -> 1)

  FREEBUF(1)                                                           
FREEBUF(0)
<readmem: c00000000039db08, KVADDR, "kernel_config_data", 32768, (ROE),
11721c00>
crash: read error: kernel virtual address: c00000000039db08  type:
"kernel_config_data"
WARNING: cannot read kernel_config_data
GETBUF(248 -> 0)
FREEBUF(0)
GETBUF(16 -> 0)
<readmem: c0000000006470b8, KVADDR, "cpu_possible_map", 16, (ROE),
1071e968>
crash: read error: kernel virtual address: c0000000006470b8  type:
"cpu_possible_map"
WARNING: cannot read cpu_possible_map
<readmem: c000000000653130, KVADDR, "cpu_present_map", 16, (ROE),
1071e968>
crash: read error: kernel virtual address: c000000000653130  type:
"cpu_present_map"
WARNING: cannot read cpu_present_map
<readmem: c0000000006470c8, KVADDR, "cpu_online_map", 16, (ROE),
1071e968>
crash: read error: kernel virtual address: c0000000006470c8  type:
"cpu_online_map"
WARNING: cannot read cpu_online_map
FREEBUF(0)
<readmem: c0000000006d9f00, KVADDR, "xtime", 16, (FOE), 106f4218>
crash: read error: kernel virtual address: c0000000006d9f00  type:
"xtime"
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