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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: source line numbers with x86_64 modules? [Was: Re: [patch] measurements, numbers about CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y impact]
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:05:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090111180545.GL26290@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090111012811.GG12885@elte.hu>

> 'kdump light' perhaps that dumps the most important data structures like 
> registers of all CPUs, task struct and the symbol tables, the current task 
> itself including the kernel stack plus the surrounding 4K of all pointers 
> that are in current registers and that point into kernel memory - maybe 
> straight to kerneloops.org [if the user agrees] - or something like that.

All you would need for that would be a new custom level in makedumpfile
that dumps only this data (except that for live dumps it can be difficult to get 
the full register contents) No kernel changes needed.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-11 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-10 14:21 source line numbers with x86_64 modules? [Was: Re: [patch] measurements, numbers about CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y impact] Mike Snitzer
2009-01-10 15:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-10 18:21   ` Mike Snitzer
2009-01-10 21:15     ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-10 22:21       ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-10 22:58         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-10 23:22           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-11 10:11       ` Andreas Dilger
     [not found]       ` <20090111101135.GA3306@webber.adilger.int>
2009-01-11 15:31         ` Mike Snitzer
2009-01-11 20:45         ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-11  1:28     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-11  4:52       ` Mike Snitzer
2009-01-13  3:19         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-11 18:05       ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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