Re: [Crash-utility] [RFC Patch 6/6] Crash: Recognise slim coredumps and process new elf-note sections
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:16:34AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
"K.Prasad" <prasad(a)linux.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.
Are these patched kernels? Otherwise Dave Anderson is pretty good about
keeping crash running across multiple kernels.
For me it works just great. I recently analyzed a crash dump with
2.6.39-rc7 kernel. Dave is generally takes patches for crash for latest
upstream kernel changes.
Thanks
Vivek