From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@ab.jp.nec.com>,
Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, bhe@redhat.com, dyoung@redhat.com,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v6] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 21:18:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190114201812.GT2773@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <244986363.69770015.1547496453312.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 03:07:33PM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
> That's what it *does* utilize -- it takes a standalone vmcore dumpfile, and
> pulls out the OSRELEASE string from it, so that a user can determine what
> vmlinux file should be used with that vmcore for normal crash analysis.
And the vmcoreinfo is part of the vmcore, right?
So it can just as well read out the address of init_uts_ns and get the
kernel version from there.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-14 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-10 12:19 [PATCH 0/2 v6] kdump,vmcoreinfo: Export the value of sme mask to vmcoreinfo Lianbo Jiang
2019-01-10 12:19 ` [PATCH 1/2 v6] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation Lianbo Jiang
2019-01-11 12:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-14 1:52 ` lijiang
2019-01-14 9:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-14 17:48 ` Kazuhito Hagio
2019-01-14 18:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-14 18:58 ` Dave Anderson
2019-01-14 19:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-14 19:36 ` Dave Anderson
2019-01-14 19:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-14 20:07 ` Dave Anderson
2019-01-14 20:18 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-01-14 20:26 ` Dave Anderson
2019-01-14 20:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-14 20:49 ` Dave Anderson
2019-01-15 10:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-15 11:00 ` lijiang
2019-01-11 14:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-14 5:30 ` lijiang
2019-01-14 9:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-15 9:41 ` lijiang
2019-01-10 12:19 ` [PATCH 2/2 v6] kdump,vmcoreinfo: Export the value of sme mask to vmcoreinfo Lianbo Jiang
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