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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [lkcd-general] Re: What's left over.
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 04 Nov 2002 17:53:02 +0100
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> Let me ask another question here
> 
> Other than "register_reboot_notifier()" and adding a 
> "register_exception_notifier()" chain what else does a dump tool need.
> Register_exception_notifier seems to solve about 90% of the insmod gdb 
> problem space as well ?

A memory dumper needs some infrastructure to find out what page is ram
and what is hole etc.
Basically an iterate_over_memmap_and_give_me_type() function.

-Andi