From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965216Ab2CMAbx (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:31:53 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:33123 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964867Ab2CMAbv (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:31:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4F5E956F.3070108@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:31:43 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120209 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Kratochvil CC: Denys Vlasenko , Roland McGrath , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov , Kushal Das Subject: Re: Extending coredump note section to contain filenames References: <4F5A3A4D.1020008@redhat.com> <20120309172934.GA18173@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F5DE6A4.2030303@redhat.com> <20120312165359.GA32400@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F5E76CE.4030601@zytor.com> <20120312223144.GA9636@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F5E91DE.80609@zytor.com> <20120313002725.GA17828@host2.jankratochvil.net> In-Reply-To: <20120313002725.GA17828@host2.jankratochvil.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/12/2012 05:27 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:16:30 +0100, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> That's quite absurd if you think about it... we're talking about each >> individual library, not necessarily the root binary. > > Denys is also working on ABRT which already dumps a lot of useful info > associated with a core file: > abrt_version analyzer architecture cmdline component coredump count > dso_list environ executable hostname kernel maps os_release package > pid pwd reason time uid username uuid var_log_messages > > I find the local copy instances of the files of specific build the same or > even less less useful info than those files above. > > One should start implementing dumping all the info above info Linux kernel > before the filenames are worth it. > This is basically providing the dso_list and executable information. Several of the other things you list above (cmdline, environ, pid, reason, maps) are already part of a core file. The rest sounds like an RFE to me. -hpa