From: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: vgoyal@in.ibm.com, Morton Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Fastboot mailing list <fastboot@lists.osdl.org>,
linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Kdump(x86): add note type NT_KDUMPINFOtokernel core dumps
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:00:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4332E329.F5CB90B4@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m1vf0tawgv.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com
"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> writes:
>
> > I quickly browsed through "crash" code and looks like it is already doing
> > similiar check (kernel.c, verify_version()). It seems to be retrieving
> > "linux_banner" from core image and also retrieving banner string from vmlinux
> > and trying to match. So if banner information can be directly read from the
> > core image, probably there is no need to export it through notes.
>
> Sounds good. We still need to define a note for the cpu control
> registers. Do any of the other crash dump solution capture that
> information right now?
>
> Eric
Certainly not in netdump, diskdump or LKCD...
On the other hand, I can't say I ever really needed it, although
that's not to say it couldn't be valuable for some types of
crashes.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-22 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-21 6:56 [PATCH] Kdump(x86): add note type NT_KDUMPINFO to kernel core dumps Vivek Goyal
2005-09-21 14:28 ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2005-09-21 15:17 ` [Fastboot] [PATCH] Kdump(x86): add note type NT_KDUMPINFO tokernel " Dave Anderson
2005-09-22 9:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-09-22 14:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2005-09-22 15:06 ` Dave Anderson
2005-09-22 16:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-09-22 20:33 ` Haren Myneni
2005-09-23 5:09 ` Vivek Goyal
2005-09-23 7:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-09-23 15:17 ` Subject: [PATCH] Don't uselessly export task_struct to user space in " Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <OF0A1E6B6F.F00DC760-ON87257084.005F99D6-88257084.00634A38@us.ibm.com>
2005-09-23 5:19 ` [Fastboot] [PATCH] Kdump(x86): add note type NT_KDUMPINFO tokernel " Vivek Goyal
[not found] ` <4332FD56.2F5256F5@redhat.com>
2005-09-23 7:12 ` [Fastboot] [PATCH] Kdump(x86): add note type NT_KDUMPINFO tokernelcore dumps Eric W. Biederman
2005-09-23 12:01 ` Vivek Goyal
2005-09-26 6:29 ` Vivek Goyal
2005-09-22 16:38 ` [Fastboot] [PATCH] Kdump(x86): add note type NT_KDUMPINFO tokernel core dumps Eric W. Biederman
2005-09-22 17:00 ` Dave Anderson [this message]
2005-09-22 7:39 ` [Fastboot] [PATCH] Kdump(x86): add note type NT_KDUMPINFO to kernel " Vivek Goyal
2005-09-22 7:46 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-22 8:32 ` Vivek Goyal
2005-09-22 9:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
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