On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:16:34AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "K.Prasad" <prasad at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > > > Crash: Recognise slim coredumps and process new elf-note sections > > > > The Linux kernel will begin to support SlimDump for certain types of crashes > > and the 'crash' tool needs to recognise them. For these types of coredumps, it > > need not lookout for usual elf-structures and start gdb. Also process new > > elf-note sections that contain additional information about the crash. > > I suppose patching crash make sense. > > Unfortunately crash doesn't work on 99% of the kernels I run so, so I > stopped caring a while ago. Are these patched kernels? Otherwise Dave Anderson is pretty good about keeping crash running across multiple kernels. For me it works just great. I recently analyzed a crash dump with 2.6.39-rc7 kernel. Dave is generally takes patches for crash for latest upstream kernel changes. Thanks Vivek
