Re: Linux kernel crash dumps for ARM

2010-01-05 Thread Simon Horman
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 07:00:47PM +, Russell King wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 08:16:28PM +1100, Simon Horman wrote: > > To add to this, my understanding is that kexec support varies across > > different ARM platforms - that is to say, it works on some and fails on > > others. While this s

Re: Linux kernel crash dumps for ARM

2010-01-05 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 08:16:28PM +1100, Simon Horman wrote: > To add to this, my understanding is that kexec support varies across > different ARM platforms - that is to say, it works on some and fails on > others. While this seems to be slowly improving, I'm also aware of any list > of what is s

Re: Linux kernel crash dumps for ARM

2010-01-05 Thread Simon Horman
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 05:48:51PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 09:20:23PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Venkappa Mala writes: > > > > > > 2) As per kexec supports, kexec-tool is required and this allows you to > > > load directly > > >to a new kernel from the curr

Re: Linux kernel crash dumps for ARM

2010-01-05 Thread Paul Mundt
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 09:20:23PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Venkappa Mala writes: > > > > 2) As per kexec supports, kexec-tool is required and this allows you to > > load directly > >to a new kernel from the currently running one > > > > As from my side, i am not able to find arm

Re: Linux kernel crash dumps for ARM

2010-01-05 Thread Bernhard Walle
Am 05.01.2010 06:20, schrieb Eric W. Biederman: >> >> 3) In lkcd, netdump,diskdump, mini kernel dump and kdump/kexec tools, >> >>- which is the best choice for ARM or are there any best crash dump tool for ARM? LKCD is more or less dead (in favour of kdump) on any plattform. It doesn't work wi

Re: Linux kernel crash dumps for ARM

2010-01-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
h respect to "Linux kernel crash dumps for ARM", i have some doubts which > are described as below. > > If the machine has crashed so badly that you cannot enter commands or > the disk is not available then you have three options :- > > (1) Hand copy the text from the