From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758839AbZATEbU (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:31:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754521AbZATEbK (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:31:10 -0500 Received: from kirsty.vergenet.net ([202.4.237.240]:44108 "EHLO kirsty.vergenet.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754064AbZATEbJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:31:09 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1089 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:31:09 EST Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:12:58 +1100 From: Simon Horman To: Neil Horman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vgoyal@redhat.com, hbabu@us.ibm.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH]: add dmesg log symbols to /proc/vmcoreinfo lists Message-ID: <20090120041256.GB3200@verge.net.au> References: <20090119212127.GA13157@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090119212127.GA13157@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:21:27PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > Hey all- > It would be nice to be able to extract the dmesg log from a vmcore file > without needing to keep the debug symbols for the running kernel handy all the > time. We have a facility to do this in /proc/vmcore. This patch adds the > log_buf and log_end symbols to the vmcoreinfo area so that tools (like > makedumpfile) can easily extract the dmesg logs from a vmcore image. > > Regards > Neil > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman THis sounds reasonable to me. -- Simon Horman VA Linux Systems Japan K.K., Sydney, Australia Satellite Office H: www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: www.valinux.co.jp/en