Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

Bernhard Walle
2007-07-17T08:17:49Z

* Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> [2007-07-17 05:50]:
>
> Thinking more about it. These config variables are accessible in user
> space in first kernel through sysconf() interface. In that case kexec
> can pack required config variables into an ELF note and kernel does not
> have to intervene.

That's a good point. So we'd only need to aggree on a format for all
this information. I think the makedumpfile format is quite good --
instead of inventing another new format.

Thanks,
Bernhard