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From: freeman.zhang1992@gmail.com (Freeman Zhang)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: "kdumpbase" dracut module
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 08:41:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F094B1.6070209@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAm8cU6EaVwQPV5wwy5PXeEShtEfscTz-vAOOxmZWP56YDgNSg@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/21/16 9:55 PM, Ronit Halder wrote:
> Thanks for helping
> 
> So, this module is used to dump the crash kernel.
> Am I right?
> If not then can you explain how kdump kernel calls the makedumpfile?
> 

You are absolutely right Ronit. By the time the second kernel is booted,
this module will start a service called kdump-capture, which will
execute kdump.sh, which will invoke makedumpfile after all, depending on
your kdump configuration.

All the best!
Freeman

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-03-22  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-19  7:29 "kdumpbase" dracut module Ronit Halder
2016-03-21  2:59 ` Freeman Zhang
2016-03-21  6:26 ` Dave Young
2016-03-21 13:55   ` Ronit Halder
2016-03-22  0:41     ` Freeman Zhang [this message]

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