[Crash-utility] Question for ARM developers/users w/respect to makedumpfile

Mika Westerberg mika.westerberg at iki.fi
Thu Jan 31 19:36:09 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 05:30:22PM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
> I'm wondering whether that's the case with all ARM compressed
> kdump files?  Or maybe the dumps I have were created during early 
> development of ARM kexec/kdump?  Or is it a bug with the 
> makedumpfile facility on ARM? 

I would expect a bug in the makedumpfile (since I wrote the ARM support there
originally ;-))

> So my question is, do any of you have an ARM compressed kdump that 
> you can verify has its "offset_vmcoreinfo" and "size_vmcoreinfo"
> fields set?

Unfortunately my sample dumps (except few) were lost when I left Nokia and
those that I still have are not compressed, it seems.




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