On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:28:49 -0400 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 05:06:26PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: [snip] > As /proc/vmcore is the most used and useful interface, I prefer that > we swap memory and put that info in elf headers. For /dev/oldme, I > don't mind if we leave it as it is. If somebody really cares, then > I guess we need to write a new command line option which /dev/mem > can parse and which tells it about swaps so that /dev/oldmem can > map things correctly. (This is better than hardcoding things). Besides of the potential /dev/oldmem issue, I still do not understand the option of doing the swap in the elf header. Looks like I missed here a fundamental design point of kdump :( Is that done by specifying different virtual and physical addresses in the ELF header? Michael
