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From: Mark Gross <markgross@thegnar.org>
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch] thread-aware coredumps, 2.5.43-C3
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On Thursday 17 October 2002 06:10 pm, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
> This is not directly related to mt coredumps, but for anybody hacking the
> core dumper:
>
> it would be cool if error code/trapno were included in the coredump in some
> elf note. It has always annoyed me that these were lost and they can
> be very useful to diagnose crashes that are caused by kernel problems.
>
> -Andi

What more do you want?  You have all the registers, the mm and at least a 
dissasembly of the code, you even have the signr in the NT_PRSTATUS section.

--mgross


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