From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751677AbXB1BTo (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:19:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751758AbXB1BTn (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:19:43 -0500 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:45066 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751677AbXB1BTn (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:19:43 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:15:32 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap To: Seetharam Dharmosoth Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Need Help on Crash Dump in Kernel-2.6.20 Message-Id: <20070227171532.e3f7ab3c.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <979286.59445.qm@web7703.mail.in.yahoo.com> References: <979286.59445.qm@web7703.mail.in.yahoo.com> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:22:56 +0000 (GMT) Seetharam Dharmosoth wrote: > Hi, > > I have one question regarding Crash Dump. > > Is Kernel-2.6.20 having the default Crash dump in main > tree? 2.6.20 has a CRASH_DUMP config option for some processor architectures, such as ia64, i386, x86_64, powerpc. You should read the help text for that config option as well as the file Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt . > As I know, LKCD is one of the Crash dump utility > software which can be used with Linux Kernel (it is a > third party s/w). > > can any one please tell me the right thing about Crash > dump? --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***