Re: [PATCH 2/2] makedumpfile: make the incomplete vmcore generated by ENOSPC error analyzable

2014-09-19 Thread Wang, Xiao/Wang Xiao
Hello HATAYAMA, On 2014/9/18 20:29, HATAYAMA, Daisuke wrote: Rigorously, this design depends on implementation of filesystems where it's possible to lseek and write data onto already allocated blocks even after the filesystem is full. To show correctness of this design, you should show that test

[PATCH 1/3] makedumpfile: make get_elf64_phdr()/get_elf32_phdr() public

2014-09-19 Thread Wang, Xiao/Wang Xiao
Move the following two functions from internal function to external function. get_elf64_phdr(int fd, char *filename, int index, Elf64_Phdr *phdr) get_elf32_phdr(int fd, char *filename, int index, Elf32_Phdr *phdr) Signed-of-by: Wang Xiao --- elf_info.c | 71 +

[PATCH 2/3] makedumpfile: make the incomplete dumpfile generated by ENOSPC error analyzable

2014-09-19 Thread Wang, Xiao/Wang Xiao
Since the incomplete dumpfile generated by ENOSPC error can't be anylyzed by crash utility, but sometimes this file may contain important information and the panic problem won't be reproduced, then we came up with an idea to modify the exist data of the incomplete dumpfile to make it analyzable by

[PATCH 3/3] makedumpfile: implementation of dealing with kdump-compressed dumpfile with ENOSPC error

2014-09-19 Thread Wang, Xiao/Wang Xiao
kdump-compressed: Dump the bitmap before any page header and page data. This format use "status" of "disk_dump_header" to indicate that it has been modified. Signed-of-by: Wang Xiao --- diskdump_mod.h |2 + makedumpfile.c | 85 --- 2 f

[RFC] autokdump - automated kdump testsuite

2014-09-19 Thread CAI Qian
I plan to release an automated kdump testsuite that will be focus on testing kernel and the crash utility. It should work for all major distros since it will use none of distro-specific stuff, and also support different arches including x86, ARM, PPC64 and s390x. It does the following: 1) check if

Re: [RFC] autokdump - automated kdump testsuite

2014-09-19 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 09:22:36AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 05:52:25AM -0400, CAI Qian wrote: > > I plan to release an automated kdump testsuite that will be > > So will this be a standalone test suit? Can it be merged with > something already existing say, LTP. Also ho

Re: [RFC] autokdump - automated kdump testsuite

2014-09-19 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 05:52:25AM -0400, CAI Qian wrote: > I plan to release an automated kdump testsuite that will be So will this be a standalone test suit? Can it be merged with something already existing say, LTP. > focus on testing kernel and the crash utility. It should work > for all majo

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