Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:32:21 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation |
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:29:14PM +0000, Kazuhito Hagio wrote: > Please note that this VMCOREINFO is generated from the information in > the vmlinux only, not from the running kernel and /proc/kcore. So if > we add a command to dump it from running kernel, it's not suitable.
Sure, I used a vmlinux for that.
> makedumpfile doesn't have any switch which dumps VMCOREINFO from kcore > for now. (I'm thinking to have makedumpfile dump it as debug message, > though.)
Might be useful as people are looking into using VMCOREINFO when debugging a live kernel...
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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