Tool for creating full vmcore

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Thu Feb 13 12:07:47 EST 2014


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:45:16AM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:

[..]
> >>
> >> I guess if code is small enough, then it might be useful to 
> >> keep it in a direcotry say kexec-tools/vmcore-kcore. But if it turns
> >> out to be big, it might be better to maintain it as a separate project
> >> (like makedumpfile).
> 
> Yeah, it's a little big, but not huge.  Most of the code is the elf
> part, which is in it's own file and could be a separate library.  I'm
> fine either way.  It will get bigger as new arch-specific code is added.

This does sound like significant code when other arch support is added.
I am beginning to think if it better to manage it as a separate project
in separate git tree.

Thanks
Vivek



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