linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: define arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() if CONFIG_CRASH

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Message-ID: <20191220100536.GC1397@zn.tnic>
Date:   Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:05:36 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: define arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() if
 CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 12:28:07PM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> Yes, I'm talking about reading VMCOREINFO from /proc/kcore at runtime,
> no kdump involved. crash [1] and my own tool, drgn [2], use this for
> live debugging.

Ok, please state the gist of the use cases in the commit message so that
it is clear why you're doing this.

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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