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Message-ID: <m11uzk80vx.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 11:16:34 -0700 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, crash-utility@...hat.com, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, "Luck\, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org, anderson@...hat.com, Wang Chao <wang.chao@...fujitsu.com>, Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 6/6] Crash: Recognise slim coredumps and process new elf-note sections "K.Prasad" <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> 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. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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