Vivek Goyal wrote: How do I subscribe to the kexec mailing list on lists.infradead.org? I tried majordomo, as on vger, but it didn't work. -piet > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:35:21AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:57:46 +0900 Ken'ichi Ohmichi wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I released a new makedumpfile (version 1.2.0) with vmcoreinfo support. >>> I updated the patches for linux and kexec-tools. >>> >>> PATCH SET: >>> [1/2] [linux-2.6.22] Add vmcoreinfo >>> The patch is for linux-2.6.22. >>> The patch adds the vmcoreinfo data. Its address and size are output >>> to /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo. >>> >>> [2/2] [kexec-tools] Pass vmcoreinfo's address and size >>> The patch is for kexec-tools-testing-20070330. >>> (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/) >>> kexec command gets the address and size of the vmcoreinfo data from >>> /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo, and passes them to the second kernel through >>> ELF header of /proc/vmcore. When the second kernel is booting, the >>> kernel gets them from the ELF header and creates vmcoreinfo's PT_NOTE >>> segment into /proc/vmcore. >>> >> Hi, >> When using the vmcoreinfo patches, what tool(s) are available for >> analyzing the vmcore (dump) file? E.g., lkcd or crash or just gdb? >> >> gdb works for me, but I tried to use crash (4.0-4.6 from >> http://people.redhat.com/anderson/) and crash complained: >> >> crash: invalid kernel virtual address: 0 type: "cpu_pda entry" >> >> Should crash work, or does it need to be modified? >> >> > > Hi Randy, > > Crash should just work. It might broken on latest kernel. Copying it > to crash-utility mailing list. Dave will be able to tell us better. > > >> This is on a 2.6.23-rc3 kernel with vmcoreinfo patches and a dump file >> with -l 31 (dump level 31, omitting all possible pages). >> >> > > Thanks > Vivek > > -- > Crash-utility mailing list > Crash-utility at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/attachments/20070910/8dc475cd/attachment.html
