[parisc-linux] Kernel panic: taking a dump

[parisc-linux] Kernel panic: taking a dump

[Bruno Vidal]

	Hi.
I'm working since a long time with HP-UX, and I'm dealing
often with dumps. But in the same time I'm really found of linux.
And I'm looking for the feature of taking a dump when kernel panics.
Do you have already think to this (like taking a TOC for example).
The only thing I've found is the SGI stuff: 
http://reality.sgi.com/slurn_engr/
Do you know a project that start to do something, or there's
nothing out ?

	Thanks.

-- 
	Vidal Bruno, (770-4271)
        SSD-HA Team, HP-UX & LINUX Support
	bruno_vidal@admin.france.hp.com

Re: [parisc-linux] Kernel panic: taking a dump

[Grant Grundler]

Bruno Vidal wrote:
...
> And I'm looking for the feature of taking a dump when kernel panics.
> Do you have already think to this (like taking a TOC for example).
> The only thing I've found is the SGI stuff: 
> http://reality.sgi.com/slurn_engr/
> Do you know a project that start to do something, or there's
> nothing out ?

See http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ and click on "LKCD"
(Linux Kernel Crash Dumps) project.

I haven't yet looked at LKCD closely yet.
I'd like to see our dump format be compatible with HPUX's just to
leverage the dump analysis tools. But right now, I'd be happy
with any kind of a dump.

grant

Grant Grundler
Unix Systems Enablement Lab
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