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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC][PATCH] Crash-utility, tracing: enable crash to
	analyze tracing from core-file (make tracing can act as a flight
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On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 02:47:09PM -0500, Jason Wessel wrote:
> If there is a nice API to call for the trace piece, it is pretty trivial
> to add additional kdb commands which would allow you to print your trace
> buffers as needed.  The unified kdb/kgdb prototype also supports calling
> kdb commands through gdb's "monitor" command.  It is not clear if that
> satisfies the need that Christoph asked about, or if he had some other
> data analysis in mind.

That sounds perfect.