Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269134AbUIHLup (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:50:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269131AbUIHLu3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:50:29 -0400 Received: from svr68.ehostpros.com ([67.15.48.48]:9956 "EHLO svr68.ehostpros.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269130AbUIHLts (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:49:48 -0400 From: "Amit S. Kale" Organization: LinSysSoft Technologies Pvt Ltd To: Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: Generating kernel crash dumps in elf core file format Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:19:10 +0530 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Linux Kernel , yakker@sourceforge.net, suparna bhattacharya , Hariprasad Nellitheertha , akpm@osdl.org References: <200409081313.28087.amitkale@linsyssoft.com> <1094636955.18148.8.camel@2fwv946.in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1094636955.18148.8.camel@2fwv946.in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409081719.10253.amitkale@linsyssoft.com> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr68.ehostpros.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - linsyssoft.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2033 Lines: 59 On Wednesday 08 Sep 2004 3:20 pm, Vivek Goyal wrote: > Hi Amit, > > We are already working in this direction. Kexec based crash dump > approach exports a device interface to read/save the crash dump in elf > core file format and user shall be able to analyze the dumps using gdb. > > Initial set of patches were posted by Hari on LKML for review. Please > have a look at following thread. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109274443023485&w=2 > > Very soon Hari is going to post the final set of patches to be included > in -mm tree. Hi Vivek, Nice! Could you also tell us about the state of user level utilities required to save dumps in elf format? Are they going to be available any time soon? Thanks. -Amit > > Thanks > Vivek > > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 13:13, Amit S. Kale wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We are thinking of implementing the generation of linux kernel crash > > dumps in elf core file format. This will enable users to analyze kernel > > crash dumps using gdb. It should be good tool to complement KGDB. KGDB > > could be used during development stage for live kernel analysis and > > LKCD-GDB could be used with the same capabilities for analysis of > > customer problems and in house release testing. > > > > We would like to know if people think this will be useful or they are > > more comfortable with current way of kernel panic analysis using existing > > LKCD. > > > > Any ideas/suggestions/pointers to existing work in this area are most > > welcome. > > > > Thanks. > > -Amit Kale > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" > > in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/