[PATCH 4/4] kexec-tools: mips: Try to include bss in kernel vmcore file.

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Mon Oct 16 00:02:05 PDT 2017


On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 02:02:28PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> The kernel message buffers, as well as a lot of other useful data
> reside in the bss section.  Without this vmcore-dmesg cannot work, and
> debugging with a core dump is much more difficult.
> 
> Try to add the /proc/iomem "Kernel bss" section to vmcore.  If it is
> not found, just do what we used to do and use "Kernel data" instead.

Thanks, applied.



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