From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adding a userspace application crash handling system to autotest Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:37:37 +0300 Message-ID: <4A8A6851.4050307@redhat.com> References: <1250129059-20998-1-git-send-email-lmr@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: autotest@test.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, mbligh@google.com, showard@google.com, jadmanski@google.com To: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:44610 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754920AbZHRIhk (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:37:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1250129059-20998-1-git-send-email-lmr@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/13/2009 05:04 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > This patch adds a system to watch user space segmentation > faults, writing core dumps and some degree of core dump > analysis report. We believe that such a system will be > beneficial for autotest as a whole, since the ability to > get core dumps and dump analysis for each app crashing > during an autotest execution can help test engineers with > richer debugging information. > > Modern kernels allow dumping core into a pipe. You could use this to receive the core directly into an autotest thread, potentially simplifying some code and making it more robust. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function