These patchset suggests feature to add user specific information along with dumpfile. One of usecases could be a platform build information containing dubug file addresses, sources of daily build, some platform related information and more, it's gracefully simplifies debugging process, since an engineer doesn't need to spend time on finding to which platform this core file is related, where to get debugging counter part and so on. As user info can be added along with dumpfile it frees platform from creating tar achieve spending doubled space or using specific tools. Since this information is sorted and selected by user it can't be standardized and should be placed in some special generic section. This patchset roughly proposes the variant when user information is placed/retrieved as subsection of note elf section. Ivan Khoronzhuk (4): makedumpfile: rename check_dump_file() on check_file_is_writable() elf: add new "userinfo" ELF section to traverse debug information elf_info: make int note_descsz() and offset_next_note() public elf: add ability to read the userinfo data from note segment elf_info.c | 4 +- elf_info.h | 5 + makedumpfile.c | 393 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- makedumpfile.h | 12 ++ 4 files changed, 404 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
