Hi,
I am able to use crash to debug a crash dump generated when I initiate the crash using the sysrq-trigger in the /proc directory.
But when I try to use crash to debug a kernel vmcore generated due to the insertion of my module, I get the error below.
Please let me know if I am doing anything wrong or if you think that the dump is corrupted. I use kdump for dump collection.
I am using a 2.6.27.4-2-default kernel.
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/var/crash/2008-12-01-18:40 # crash System.map-default vmlinux vmcore
crash 4.0-7.4
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please wait... (gathering module symbol data) buf_1K_used: 299
buf_2K_used: 1
buf_4K_used: 155
buf_8K_used: 1
buf_32K_used: 2
buf_1K_ovf: 0
buf_2K_ovf: 0
buf_4K_ovf: 0
buf_8K_ovf: 0
buf_32K_ovf: 0
buf_1K_maxuse: 2 of 10
buf_2K_maxuse: 1 of 10
buf_4K_maxuse: 1 of 5
buf_8K_maxuse: 1 of 5
buf_32K_maxuse: 1 of 1
buf_inuse[5]: [0][0][0][0][1]
smallest: 16
largest: 21474854400
embedded: 2
max_embedded: 2
mallocs: 0
frees: 0
reqs/total: 459/21475603516.0
average size: 46787807.2
crash: cannot allocate any more memory!
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Thanks in advance,
Dheeraj
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