On 07/14/09 15:39, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 14/07/09 at 20:56 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > In addition to systemtap, it should also make it easier to get crash > > > to work on released kernel images. > > > > systemtap is AFAIK a different problem. > > Can you elaborate? > > The requirements for systemtap on the kernel side are: > CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO, CONFIG_KPROBES, CONFIG_RELAY, CONFIG_DEBUG_FS, > CONFIG_MODULES, CONFIG_MODULES_UNLOAD > (source: > http://sources.redhat.com/git/?p=systemtap.git;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=HEAD) > > So the only missing options are CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO and CONFIG_KPROBES.
We should be able to use the same debug kernel package for both systemtap and kdump/crash. The real key is unstriped vmlinux and modules with DEBUG_INFO. Troy
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