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[209.132.180.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id e2si1124531pgs.94.2019.01.14.12.20.48; Mon, 14 Jan 2019 12:21:04 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@alien8.de header.s=dkim header.b=KoDxIeyj; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=alien8.de Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727037AbfANUSU (ORCPT + 99 others); Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:18:20 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([5.9.137.197]:56608 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726794AbfANUST (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:18:19 -0500 Received: from zn.tnic (p200300EC2BC4CA00255595821D34C4F7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [IPv6:2003:ec:2bc4:ca00:2555:9582:1d34:c4f7]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.skyhub.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id 3777F1EC0B55; Mon, 14 Jan 2019 21:18:17 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alien8.de; s=dkim; t=1547497098; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references; bh=dMs8Pj0hv0+eSu5zDNdFQcC8A/HHvUZxEu39CidEhTs=; b=KoDxIeyjDoOLJm+lcLDqVN3Z/PhzTDsdSTKnveeZ+1Cy3mMN0tccTls2TPY0z7wEATHfGn dtosCVcZVWpLv9MtPBoDQZlrB61MIsH2yMNHOpkvoUs4clyUSfX8nwt/d7KCp7KXy3LRgp xuCbBzyThiUvkvi22AnL3xFNeBgPlBo= Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 21:18:12 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Dave Anderson Cc: Kazuhito Hagio , Lianbo Jiang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, bhe@redhat.com, dyoung@redhat.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v6] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation Message-ID: <20190114201812.GT2773@zn.tnic> References: <20190110121944.6050-1-lijiang@redhat.com> <20190111123300.GE4729@zn.tnic> <4AE2DC15AC0B8543882A74EA0D43DBEC035661E8@BPXM09GP.gisp.nec.co.jp> <20190114180142.GO2773@zn.tnic> <2126185079.69727846.1547492312033.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> <20190114192144.GQ2773@zn.tnic> <134663991.69764038.1547494607008.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> <20190114195940.GS2773@zn.tnic> <244986363.69770015.1547496453312.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <244986363.69770015.1547496453312.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 03:07:33PM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: > That's what it *does* utilize -- it takes a standalone vmcore dumpfile, and > pulls out the OSRELEASE string from it, so that a user can determine what > vmlinux file should be used with that vmcore for normal crash analysis. And the vmcoreinfo is part of the vmcore, right? So it can just as well read out the address of init_uts_ns and get the kernel version from there. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.