----- Original Message ----- > > > > For compressed kdumps, the disk_dump_header.status field currently uses these > > three bits: > > > > #define DUMP_DH_COMPRESSED_ZLIB 0x1 /* page is compressed with zlib */ > > #define DUMP_DH_COMPRESSED_LZO 0x2 /* page is compressed with lzo */ > > #define DUMP_DH_COMPRESSED_SNAPPY 0x4 /* page is compressed with snappy */ > > > > Can you please simply add a DUMP_DH_COMPRESSED_INCOMPLETE flag? > > OK, I'll add this flag. > > > > > With respect to ELF vmcores, the processor-specific e_flags field is unused by the > > crash utility, and it appears that makedumpfile always sets it to zero. But > > I'm not sure what the kernel does when /proc/vmcore is created? Could there > > be e_flags bits set there that a direct-copy of /proc/vmcore might contain? > > That's why I suggested a unique ELF note. > > Add a unique ELF note is OK, and I thought it must need to allocate some diskspace > first to store this ELF note and its data, for if the dumpfile has been modified, > it must write a flag in this place to indicate it's an incomplete dumpfile. But > this may waste a bit of diskspace when the dumpfile is generated with no error. Looking at "kexec/crashdump-elf.c" in the kexec-tools package, it should be safe to use the e_flags field, because even if /proc/vmcore were copied unmodified (without makedumpfile), the crash_create_elf32_headers()/crash_create_elf64_headers() functions would always set it to 0: /* Setup ELF Header*/ elf = (EHDR *) bufp; bufp += sizeof(EHDR); memcpy(elf->e_ident, ELFMAG, SELFMAG); elf->e_ident[EI_CLASS] = elf_info->class; elf->e_ident[EI_DATA] = elf_info->data; elf->e_ident[EI_VERSION]= EV_CURRENT; elf->e_ident[EI_OSABI] = ELFOSABI_NONE; memset(elf->e_ident+EI_PAD, 0, EI_NIDENT-EI_PAD); elf->e_type = ET_CORE; elf->e_machine = crash_architecture(elf_info); elf->e_version = EV_CURRENT; elf->e_entry = 0; elf->e_phoff = sizeof(EHDR); elf->e_shoff = 0; elf->e_flags = 0; elf->e_ehsize = sizeof(EHDR); elf->e_phentsize= sizeof(PHDR); elf->e_phnum = 0; elf->e_shentsize= 0; elf->e_shnum = 0; elf->e_shstrndx = 0; > I thought it will confuse a user when makedumpfile automatically modified the > dumpfile name, so I'll keep the dumpfile name unchanged and use the above two > flags in the dumpfile to indicate that it has been modified. OK good -- thanks! Dave