Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755763Ab1E0SW0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2011 14:22:26 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1941 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751210Ab1E0SWZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2011 14:22:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:22:10 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , crash-utility@redhat.com, Andi Kleen , "Luck, Tony" , kexec@lists.infradead.org, anderson@redhat.com, Wang Chao , Michael Holzheu , Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 6/6] Crash: Recognise slim coredumps and process new elf-note sections Message-ID: <20110527182210.GH8053@redhat.com> References: <20110526170722.GB23266@in.ibm.com> <20110526172618.GB18295@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1202 Lines: 29 On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:16:34AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "K.Prasad" writes: > > > Crash: Recognise slim coredumps and process new elf-note sections > > > > The Linux kernel will begin to support SlimDump for certain types of crashes > > and the 'crash' tool needs to recognise them. For these types of coredumps, it > > need not lookout for usual elf-structures and start gdb. Also process new > > elf-note sections that contain additional information about the crash. > > I suppose patching crash make sense. > > Unfortunately crash doesn't work on 99% of the kernels I run so, so I > stopped caring a while ago. Are these patched kernels? Otherwise Dave Anderson is pretty good about keeping crash running across multiple kernels. For me it works just great. I recently analyzed a crash dump with 2.6.39-rc7 kernel. Dave is generally takes patches for crash for latest upstream kernel changes. Thanks Vivek -- 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/