[Crash-utility] Re: s390dbf support for crash

[Dave Anderson]

Michael Holzheu wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> For lcrash we have a command, to print out kernel traces from
> the s390 debug feature (s390dbf). The debug feature is an s390 kernel
> trace API which uses wraparound buffers to store trace records in memory.
> Many of the s390 device drivers use this feature. Since more and more
> service and support people use crash instead of lcrash for dump
> analysis, it would be very useful to have this command in the crash
> dumpanalysis tool, too. There is some documentation of the s390dbf in
> the kernel sources under /Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt
>

Hi Michael,

This looks fine to me.  Do me one favor, though, and run the build
through "make Warn"?  There will be a couple minor items to clean
up in s390dbf.c.

Thanks,
  Dave