[Crash-utility] Kernel Crash Analysis on Android

[Dave Anderson]

----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 06:00:00PM +0000, Shankar, AmarX wrote:
> 
> > I want to do kernel crash Analysis on Android Merrifield Target.
> > 
> > Could someone please help me how to do it?
> 
> Merrifield is pretty much similar than Medfield, e.g it has x86 core.  So I
> guess you can follow the instructions how to setup kdump on x86 (see 
> Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt) unless you already have that configured.
> 
> crash should support this directly presuming you have vmlinux/vmcore files to
> feed it. You can configure crash to support x86 on x86_64 host by running:
> 
> 	% make target=X86
> 	& make
> 
> (or something along those lines).

Right -- just the first make command will suffice, i.e., when running
on an x86_64 host:

  $ wget http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash-6.0.4.tar.gz 
  $ tar xzf crash-6.0.4.tar.gz
  ...
  $ cd crash-6.0.4
  $ make target=X86
  ...
  $ ./crash <path-to>/vmlinux <path-to>/vmcore

Dave