VL Chowdary <vlc.chowdary@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > This is VL Chowdary, a software engineer in Bangalore,India.I am currently > working on a project that deals with "Creation of Postmortem data log file > on Linux platform". > The project is on Fedora 12 with Kernel2.6.31.5 version. > For that i need following things. > 1. Find the location of core utility in the kernel. > 2. Find the source file that consists of actual implementation of > the core utility (On Fedora's kernel 2.6.31.5) > 3. Based on that i want to implement a core file with my own project > requirements. > 4. Build the kernel with the above implemented corefile replacing the > existing one. > > I went through many > documents and they were saying that core file generated location is in : > /proc/sys/kernel. > Is it correct?. > I couldn't get the source file that contains the implementation of core > utility. > Please help in the project for further proceedings. > Advance thanks to all repliers. You can record messages using trace points or trace_printk in the kernel. Enable whatever trace points you want (or add trace_printks), then you can examine them in the vmcore using the crash command 'trace'. Cheers, Jeff -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
