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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: lijiang <lijiang@redhat.com>,
	"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	"bhe@redhat.com" <bhe@redhat.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
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	"kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"dyoung@redhat.com" <dyoung@redhat.com>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:32:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181210183221.GA5482@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE2DC15AC0B8543882A74EA0D43DBEC0356426E@BPXM09GP.gisp.nec.co.jp>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-10 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20181202030839.29945-1-lijiang@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <20181202030839.29945-2-lijiang@redhat.com>
2018-12-03 15:08   ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation Borislav Petkov
2018-12-04  9:35     ` lijiang
2018-12-05 10:16       ` Dave Young
2018-12-05 14:21         ` lijiang
2018-12-05 11:30       ` Borislav Petkov
2018-12-05 14:21         ` lijiang
2018-12-05 20:29           ` Kazuhito Hagio
2018-12-10 18:32             ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2018-12-10 21:10               ` Kazuhito Hagio

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