makedumpfile-1.2.2: Fix the problem that vmcoreinfo cannot be extracted from ELF32 /proc/vmcore

Ken'ichi Ohmichi oomichi at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp
Fri Nov 2 06:35:34 EDT 2007


Hi,

makedumpfile version 1.2.2 is released.
Please test it. Your opinions/comments are welcome.

Explanation of makedumpfile:
  To shorten the size of the dumpfile and the time of creating the
  dumpfile, makedumpfile copies only the necessary pages for analysis
  to the dumpfile from /proc/vmcore. You can specify the kind of
  unnecessary pages with dump_level. If you want to shorten the size
  further, enable the compression of the page data.

Changelog:
o Fix the problem that vmcoreinfo cannot be extracted from ELF32 /proc/vmcore.
  There was a problem that makedumpfile cannot extract vmcoreinfo from
  an ELF32 /proc/vmcore:
    # makedumpfile -cd31 /proc/vmcore dumpfile
    get_pt_note_info: Can't find PT_NOTE Phdr.
    
    makedumpfile Failed.
    #
  The cause was that makedumpfile checked the address of flag_elf64 instead of
  the value.


Download:
  You can download the latest makedumpfile(ver. 1.2.2) from the following URL.
  Details of the change are written on the CVS page of the following site.
  https://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/

Method of installation:
  You can compile the makedumpfile command as follows;
  1. "tar -zxvf makedumpfile-1.2.2.tar.gz"
  2. "cd makedumpfile"
  3. "make; make install"

Usage:
  makedumpfile [-c] [-E] [-d dump_level] [-x vmlinux] dump_mem dump_file

Example:
  If you want to exclude pages filled by zero, cache pages, user pages
  and free pages and to enable compression, please execute the following
  command.

  # makedumpfile -c -d 31 -x vmlinux /proc/vmcore dumpfile


Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi





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