linux-kernel - Re: Extending coredump note section to contain filenames

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Message-ID: <4F5E956F.3070108@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:31:43 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@...hat.com>
CC:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Kushal Das <kdas@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Extending coredump note section to contain filenames

On 03/12/2012 05:27 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:16:30 +0100, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> That's quite absurd if you think about it... we're talking about each
>> individual library, not necessarily the root binary.
> 
> Denys is also working on ABRT which already dumps a lot of useful info
> associated with a core file:
> 	abrt_version analyzer architecture cmdline component coredump count
> 	dso_list environ executable hostname kernel maps os_release package
> 	pid pwd reason time uid username uuid var_log_messages
> 
> I find the local copy instances of the files of specific build the same or
> even less less useful info than those files above.
> 
> One should start implementing dumping all the info above info Linux kernel
> before the filenames are worth it.
> 

This is basically providing the dso_list and executable information.
Several of the other things you list above (cmdline, environ, pid,
reason, maps) are already part of a core file.  The rest sounds like an
RFE to me.

	-hpa
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