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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation
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...

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