On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 04:20:00PM +0530, Bhupesh Sharma wrote: >> For e.g I use this tool on my arm64 board as follows: >> >> a. Read out the 'elfcorehdr' env variable passed to the crash kernel >> and pass the same as an argument to the tool: >> >> Assuming that the 'elfcorehdr' spans the range -> >> 0xffdf0000-0xffdf13ff, launch the tool as - >> >> # kdump >> Cannot find the start of the core dump >> >> # kdump 0xffdf0000 >> output_elf_file >> >> # file output_elf_file >> output: ELF 64-bit LSB core file ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV) > > The contents should basically be the same (possibly with a different > section ordering) as /proc/vmcore in the crashdump kernel. If so, > kdump serves no useful purpose, and ends up confusing the situation > due to its inability to handle 32-bit ELF coredump files. > > It seems to me that the presence of /proc/vmcore obsoletes the kdump > tool. Fair enough. I will send a patch shortly to remove the obsolete kdump tool from 'kexec-tools'. Thanks, Bhupesh _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
