Re: source line numbers with x86_64 modules? [Was: Re: [patch] measurements, numbers about CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y impact]

Andi Kleen
2009-01-11T17:51:34Z

> '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
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