Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH] filesys: Skip 'vmlinux.o' while searching for vmlinux in 'find_booted_kernel()'

Thanks Bhupesh -- the fix is queued for crash-7.2.2: https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/commit/a002f07040972a3d4b0743811e643bfba7b8cc99 Dave - Original Message - > Hi Dave, > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 9:09 PM, Dave Anderson wrote: > > > > Hi Bhupesh, > >

Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH] filesys: Skip 'vmlinux.o' while searching for vmlinux in 'find_booted_kernel()'

Hi Dave, On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 9:09 PM, Dave Anderson wrote: > > Hi Bhupesh, > > Try this patch: > > $ diff --git a/filesys.c b/filesys.c > index 1b44ad5..74728f1 > --- a/filesys.c > +++ b/filesys.c > @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ find_booted_kernel(void) > >

Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH] filesys: Skip 'vmlinux.o' while searching for vmlinux in 'find_booted_kernel()'

Hi Dave, On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 8:48 PM, Dave Anderson wrote: > Hi Bhupesh, > > Thanks -- mystery solved! > > I kind of hate to simply use the file name string as the qualifier, though. > Looking at the ELF headers of the vmlinux.o and vmlinux file, there are > several

Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH] filesys: Skip 'vmlinux.o' while searching for vmlinux in 'find_booted_kernel()'

Hi Bhupesh, Try this patch: $ diff --git a/filesys.c b/filesys.c index 1b44ad5..74728f1 --- a/filesys.c +++ b/filesys.c @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ find_booted_kernel(void) if (mount_point(kernel) || !file_readable(kernel) || -

Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH] filesys: Skip 'vmlinux.o' while searching for vmlinux in 'find_booted_kernel()'

Hi Bhupesh, Thanks -- mystery solved! I kind of hate to simply use the file name string as the qualifier, though. Looking at the ELF headers of the vmlinux.o and vmlinux file, there are several notable differences: $ readelf -a vmlinux ELF Header: Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00

[Crash-utility] [PATCH] filesys: Skip 'vmlinux.o' while searching for vmlinux in 'find_booted_kernel()'

I found this particular issue while compiling and installing a kernel from source on a RHEL arm64 machine. I used the following commands to build and install the kernel from source: # make olddefconfig # make # make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 && make install This compiles and