[Crash-utility] [PATCH v3 0/2] Crash-Utility: crash enhancement to support s390x diskdump

[Dave Anderson]

----- "Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar" <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On 11/19/2010 12:52 AM, Dave Anderson wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks -- I've got the files, and the patch works as expected. 
> > 
> > The only question I have is that the vmcoreinfo data is not
> > contained in the 3 compressed kdump files, whereas I do see it
> > with newer x86_64 compressed kdumps.  Is that to be expected?
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Yup, that is expected. makedumpfile copies the vmcoreinfo into
> compressed kdump file only if it is available in ELF vmcore. As of now
> the s390x vmcore does not contain vmcoreinfo data and hence makedumpfile
> does not populate it in compressed kdump file. In future when s390x
> dumps starts including vmcoreinfo data, the makedumpfile will also
> transfer it to compressed kdump file with it's existing logic.

OK, good -- queued for the next release.

Thanks,
  Dave