Kdump for ARM (vmcore generation problem)

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at in.ibm.com
Wed Aug 15 23:02:51 EDT 2007


On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 06:41:54PM +0530, Indraneel wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to make Kdump work for ARM. Till now i've managed to get the 
> /dev/oldmem interface working for taking dumps. Now i want to get the 
> /proc/vmcore interface working.
> I'm unclear how to generate the elfcore headers required by routines in 
> vmcore.c.
> 

Hi Indraneel,

kexec-tools in user space generates those headers. Have a loot at
kexec-tools code.

Thanks
Vivek



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