Messages in this thread | | | From | "Amit S. Kale" <> | Subject | Re: Generating kernel crash dumps in elf core file format | Date | Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:19:10 +0530 |
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On Wednesday 08 Sep 2004 3:20 pm, Vivek Goyal wrote: > Hi Amit, > > We are already working in this direction. Kexec based crash dump > approach exports a device interface to read/save the crash dump in elf > core file format and user shall be able to analyze the dumps using gdb. > > Initial set of patches were posted by Hari on LKML for review. Please > have a look at following thread. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109274443023485&w=2 > > Very soon Hari is going to post the final set of patches to be included > in -mm tree.
Hi Vivek,
Nice!
Could you also tell us about the state of user level utilities required to save dumps in elf format? Are they going to be available any time soon?
Thanks. -Amit
> > Thanks > Vivek > > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 13:13, Amit S. Kale wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We are thinking of implementing the generation of linux kernel crash > > dumps in elf core file format. This will enable users to analyze kernel > > crash dumps using gdb. It should be good tool to complement KGDB. KGDB > > could be used during development stage for live kernel analysis and > > LKCD-GDB could be used with the same capabilities for analysis of > > customer problems and in house release testing. > > > > We would like to know if people think this will be useful or they are > > more comfortable with current way of kernel panic analysis using existing > > LKCD. > > > > Any ideas/suggestions/pointers to existing work in this area are most > > welcome. > > > > Thanks. > > -Amit Kale > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" > > in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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