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| author | Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> | 2006-01-11 12:17:31 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-11 18:42:10 -0800 |
| commit | 75ba0861bcc64634166124f164dcc05b6393c0ee (patch) | |
| tree | 1104e77b8de54f5dbf875291b154c0845e80a17e /Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | |
| parent | 8428cfe893c1f13eb22cd879669f12b65900738f (diff) | |
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[PATCH] doc: refer to kdump in oops-tracing.txt
Kdump has been merged and supported on several architectures. It is better
to encourage to use kdump rather than non standard kernel crash dump
patches.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/oops-tracing.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 05960f8a748e..2503404ae5c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -41,11 +41,9 @@ the disk is not available then you have three options :- run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there using your favourite communication program. Minicom works well. -(3) Patch the kernel with one of the crash dump patches. These save - data to a floppy disk or video rom or a swap partition. None of - these are standard kernel patches so you have to find and apply - them yourself. Search kernel archives for kmsgdump, lkcd and - oops+smram. +(3) Use Kdump (see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt), + extract the kernel ring buffer from old memory with using dmesg + gdbmacro in Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt. Full Information |