linux-kernel - Re: [RFC Patch 6/6] Crash: Recognise slim coredumps and process new elf-note sections

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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
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