Hi Bernhard,
2007/05/01 15:39:12 +0200, Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> wrote:
>This patch implements support for following the debug information link in the
>.gnu_debuginfo section if the specified binary contains one. That makes it
>possible to call makedumpfile with -x /boot/vmlinux-<version> on distributions
>that ship extra -debuginfo packages for the kernel.
Isn't it good to specify the debuginfo file directly instead of your patch ?
I confirmed that makedumpfile without your patch can run by specifying the
debuginfo file directly.
makedumpfile needs only .debug_info section and doesn't need other sections,
so it needs only the debuginfo file. I will add the following comment to the
manual for "Debugging Information in Separate Files". Please let me know your
opinion.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-x VMLINUX
Specify the first kernel?s VMLINUX with debug information to
analyze the first kernel?s memory usage.
+ If there is a file containing debug information and separated from
+ VMLINUX, the file should be specified instead of VMLINUX.
The page size of the first kernel and the second kernel should
match.
Example:
# makedumpfile -d 31 -x vmlinux /proc/vmcore dumpfile
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Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
