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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Jonathan M. Foote" <jmfoote@cert.org>,
	"H. J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Extend core dump note section to contain file names of mapped files
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:56:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120713155632.GA30239@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120713145806.GA17217@redhat.com>

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 04:58:06PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 07/12, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> >
> > This note has the following format:
> >
> > long count     -- how many files are mapped
> > long page_size -- units for file_ofs
> > array of [COUNT] elements of
> >    long start
> >    long end
> >    long file_ofs
> > followed by COUNT filenames in ASCII: "FILE1" NUL "FILE2" NUL...
> 
> All I can say, I believe the patch is correct.

Patch looks good to me too.

> Otherwise I can't comment the patch, I simply do not know what
> people do with the coredumps. But Denys certainly knows, he works
> with the tools which need this info.

More information during debugging is always good.

I assume there will be a gdb patch to dump it?

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-13 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-12 19:42 [PATCH v2] Extend core dump note section to contain file names of mapped files Denys Vlasenko
2012-07-13 14:58 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-07-13 15:56   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2012-07-13 17:20     ` Oleg Nesterov

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