From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([5.9.137.197]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1gWQMU-0006oK-6S for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:33:02 +0000 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:32:21 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation Message-ID: <20181210183221.GA5482@zn.tnic> References: <20181202030839.29945-1-lijiang@redhat.com> <20181202030839.29945-2-lijiang@redhat.com> <20181203150809.GA4794@zn.tnic> <779dbae7-f6e2-e9e4-bdd0-0a9e6ec62487@redhat.com> <20181205113032.GF29510@zn.tnic> <3d1a7e68-34c5-d118-fe09-7c9bc14cce84@redhat.com> <4AE2DC15AC0B8543882A74EA0D43DBEC0356426E@BPXM09GP.gisp.nec.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AE2DC15AC0B8543882A74EA0D43DBEC0356426E@BPXM09GP.gisp.nec.co.jp> 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" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Kazuhito Hagio Cc: lijiang , "bhe@redhat.com" , Jonathan Corbet , "x86@kernel.org" , "kexec@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "mingo@redhat.com" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "dyoung@redhat.com" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:29:14PM +0000, Kazuhito Hagio wrote: > Please note that this VMCOREINFO is generated from the information in > the vmlinux only, not from the running kernel and /proc/kcore. So if > we add a command to dump it from running kernel, it's not suitable. Sure, I used a vmlinux for that. > makedumpfile doesn't have any switch which dumps VMCOREINFO from kcore > for now. (I'm thinking to have makedumpfile dump it as debug message, > though.) Might be useful as people are looking into using VMCOREINFO when debugging a live kernel... -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply. _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec