[Crash-utility] Re: [PATCH] vmcoreinfo: read vmcoreinfo using 'vmcoreinfo_data' when unavailable in elf note

Hi, Aditya Thank you for the fix. On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 7:08 PM Aditya Gupta <adityag(a)linux.ibm.com&gt; wrote: Few vmcores don't have vmcoreinfo elf note, such as those created using virsh-dump. I tried to generate a core dump file with "virsh dump" and got an error message: # ./crash vmlinux ../coredump crash 8.0.6 Copyright (C) 2002-2025  Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010  IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006  Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012  Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007  VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005, 2011, 2020-2024  NEC Corporation Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007  Silicon Graphics, Inc. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002  Mission Critical Linux, Inc. Copyright (C) 2015, 2021  VMware, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.  Enter "help copying" to see the conditions. This program has absolutely no warranty.  Enter "help warranty" for details. WARNING: --vmcoreinfo is empty, will read from symbols

crash: gdb_interface: gdb not initialized? Could you please double check? BTW: the kernel version is 6.12, I tested it based on aarch64 machine.