> >> Generating VMCOREINFO is easy in the first kernel, for example: > >> # makedumpfile -g VMCOREINFO -x vmlinux > > > > I get: > > > > $ makedumpfile -g VMCOREINFO -x vmlinux > > The kernel version is not supported. > > The makedumpfile operation may be incomplete. > > > > The vmcoreinfo is saved to VMCOREINFO. > > > > makedumpfile Completed. > > > > But the text file looks ok AFAICT. Please add that command to the > > documentation file. > > Please note that this VMCOREINFO is generated from the information in the vmlinux only, not from the running kernel and /proc/kcore. So if we add a command to dump it from running kernel, it's not suitable. (This switch is intended to make a data that is used instead of vmlinux when vmcore didn't have VMCOREINFO and makedumpfile is in a situation that we don't have vmlinux. Please see the explanation of the -i and -g options in makefumpfile(8).) makedumpfile doesn't have any switch which dumps VMCOREINFO from kcore for now. (I'm thinking to have makedumpfile dump it as debug message, though.) Thanks, Kazu
