Hi Phi, As part of my Linaro assignee role, I am working on implementation of kexec/crashdump for armv8. Only recently started so no significant progress yet, but will sync up over what you want to do and how I can help.
Cheers, James On 3 June 2013 08:16, phi debian <phi.deb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to investigate kernel crashdump debuging for armv8. > > For this I need a crashdump, basically I would be happy with a vmlinux > with debuginfos (-g compiled) either as 1 a.out or a splitted a.out ( ala > suse) a save state of some sort (a crash notes records) and a vmcore that > could be a simple raw file, a core file, an elf file, a kdump format. > > I am not to picky on the crashdump format for the time being. > > What would be my best bet? > > - Does someone as a crashdump at hand, I would simply download the > vmlinux/vmcore/crashnotes. > > - Make it myself as a qemu guest crash. > If qemu is able to produce a guest core dump, I could build a kernel -g > then trig a guest dump (if someone did this any receipe would be > appreciated :) ) > > - Make it myself with a manual kdump (ideal) or kexec phases. > I would then have to install linaro, get the source, build the -g vmlinux, > then try some kexec sequence and catch the kcore, or better if available I > could do a makedumpfile to get a kdump. > Again if one did this, any help appreciated. > > Cheers, > Phi > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev > >
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