From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
To: Kurt Fitzner <kfitzner@excelcia.org>
Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Bug report data collection tool
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:58:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050721125853.GC27330@colo.lackof.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42DF53E8.5010904@excelcia.org>
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:51:04AM -0600, Kurt Fitzner wrote:
> I was thinking that perhaps it would be useful to have a tool to help
> collate information after a hang/crash. Something you would run on the
> next boot.
>
> I wasn't able to tell from a cursory glance at pdc_stable.c, but if the
> driver supports it then perhaps the tool could read HPMC/TOC data post
> crash from nvram (rather than having to write out or use a serial
> console to capture 'ser pim' data).
We thought of that before but there are a few issues:
1) stable storage access is only via PDC calls.
2) format of PIM data is platform dependent - ie every model machine
could have a different format. In practice, ISTR the format usually
is the same for a given processor model and not each model of machine.
> It could then cross reference the
> crash address with the System.map, gather pre-crash data from the logs
> and a machine profile from /proc.
>
> If something like this would be useful, I could do with having a project
> to help me learn the ropes.
Lack of documentation will make this a fairly hard project. :^(
sorry,
grant
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2005-07-21 7:51 [parisc-linux] Bug report data collection tool Kurt Fitzner
2005-07-21 12:58 ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2005-07-21 14:22 ` Carlos O'Donell
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