From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com ([207.211.31.120] helo=us-smtp-1.mimecast.com) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1iZnkv-0007x5-BF for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 03:12:42 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE880107ACE6 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 03:12:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mylaptop.redhat.com (ovpn-8-19.pek2.redhat.com [10.72.8.19]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF7919C7F for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 03:12:35 +0000 (UTC) From: Pingfan Liu Subject: [PATCH] doc: vmcore-dmesg should work on ELF format Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:12:33 +0800 Message-Id: <1574824353-5309-1-git-send-email-piliu@redhat.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: kexec@lists.infradead.org User may mistake to run vmcore-dmesg against an kdump format dumpfile, and fail to get kernel message. Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu --- vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 index d9e3c62..dc06909 100644 --- a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 +++ b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ vmcore-dmesg \- This is just a placeholder until real man page has been written .\" respectively. \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP extracts the dmesg from a vmcore and write it to standard out. \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP works against either -\fB/proc/vmcore\fP in a crash dump capture context or a copy +\fB/proc/vmcore\fP in a crash dump capture context or a ELF format copy of \fB/proc/vmcore\fP that has been saved for later analysis. A single build of \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP should work against any linux vmcore written created on any architecture. -- 2.7.5 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec