From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-we0-f171.google.com ([74.125.82.171]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1WDsfI-0008Bv-Vj for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:33:06 +0000 Received: by mail-we0-f171.google.com with SMTP id u56so7249124wes.30 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 01:32:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52FC8FB8.5030702@canonical.com> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:26:16 +0100 From: Louis Bouchard MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Tool for creating full vmcore References: <52FBD7C3.4060304@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <52FBD7C3.4060304@acm.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=twosheds.infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: minyard@acm.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org Hello, Le 12/02/2014 21:21, Corey Minyard a =E9crit : > Hello, > = > I've written a tool that takes an coredump of physical kernel memory and > converts it to a coredump of virtual kernel memory that can be directly > used by gdb to debug a kernel. > = > I was trying to use /proc/vmcore, but that did not include any of > vmalloc memory or vmemmap, which made it kind of useless. I thought > about adding all that to the vmcore, but that didn't seem like the > proper way to do things. > = > The tool is at https://github.com/cminyard/kdump-tool Aside from the other opinions already expressed, I think that the name coll= ision is unfortunate and will cause problems. kdump-tools is all over Debian and Ubuntu. I would suggest to rename your project to something else. Kind regards, ...Louis -- = Louis Bouchard Software engineer, Cloud & Sustaining eng. Canonical Ltd Ubuntu support: http://canonical.com/support _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec