[PATCH 2/2] makedumpfile: make the incomplete vmcore generated by ENOSPC error analyzable

Wang, Xiao/Wang Xiao wangx.fnst at cn.fujitsu.com
Thu Sep 18 00:26:42 PDT 2014


Hello Petr,

Thanks for your reply.

On 2014/9/17 14:47, Petr Tesarik wrote:
>> Since the incomplete vmcore generated by ENOSPC error can't be anylyzed by
>> >crash utility, but sometimes this file may contain important information
> Hello 王萧,
>
> first of all, I like your patch. It has always annoyed me that any
> incomplete dump was utterly useless. Just one small question: why is
> this limited to ENOSPC? Why not e.g. EIO? EFBIG?

At present, I just consider ENOSPC for this error maybe more common. And I'm
considering to deal with other situations in the coming future.

> I think writing the (incomplete) bitmap should always be attempted.
>
> Petr Tesarik
>

PS: Your Chinese must be very good, and my Chinese name is 王晓 :P

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Regards
Wang Xiao



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