Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH v3 0/2] Crash-Utility: crash enhancement to support s390x diskdump

On 11/19/2010 12:52 AM, Dave Anderson wrote: > > Thanks -- I've got the files, and the patch works as expected. > > The only question I have is that the vmcoreinfo data is not > contained in the 3 compressed kdump files, whereas I do see it > with newer x86_64 compressed kdumps. Is that to be expected? > > Dave > Hi Dave, Yup, that is expected. makedumpfile copies the vmcoreinfo into compressed kdump file only if it is available in ELF vmcore. As of now the s390x vmcore does not contain vmcoreinfo data and hence makedumpfile does not populate it in compressed kdump file. In future when s390x dumps starts including vmcoreinfo data, the makedumpfile will also transfer it to compressed kdump file with it's existing logic.