From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1QQ1g0-00067h-DB for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 27 May 2011 18:22:25 +0000 Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:22:10 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 6/6] Crash: Recognise slim coredumps and process new elf-note sections Message-ID: <20110527182210.GH8053@redhat.com> References: <20110526170722.GB23266@in.ibm.com> <20110526172618.GB18295@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=twosheds.infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: "Luck, Tony" , Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar , kexec@lists.infradead.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Wang Chao , Andi Kleen , anderson@redhat.com, Michael Holzheu , prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com, crash-utility@redhat.com On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:16:34AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "K.Prasad" writes: > > > Crash: Recognise slim coredumps and process new elf-note sections > > > > The Linux kernel will begin to support SlimDump for certain types of crashes > > and the 'crash' tool needs to recognise them. For these types of coredumps, it > > need not lookout for usual elf-structures and start gdb. Also process new > > elf-note sections that contain additional information about the crash. > > I suppose patching crash make sense. > > Unfortunately crash doesn't work on 99% of the kernels I run so, so I > stopped caring a while ago. Are these patched kernels? Otherwise Dave Anderson is pretty good about keeping crash running across multiple kernels. For me it works just great. I recently analyzed a crash dump with 2.6.39-rc7 kernel. Dave is generally takes patches for crash for latest upstream kernel changes. Thanks Vivek _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec