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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:07:29 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: Rendell Fong <rendell.fong@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: take a 10 minute look at bug 26538
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take a kernel thread, have it hit a segfault, and see if you can get a
task level core dump.  the kernel code you have should include a thread
which pins itself to core#3 on the txrx processor.  just write a
segfault or bus error into it.

Good work on the oops thing.

 On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:59:27 -0700 Rendell Fong
<rendell.fong@onstor.com> wrote:

> I think I'm done with the core dump on tuxrx.  Things will basically work if the rlimit core is set for the process that crashes.  For non-fatal crashes in the kernel, I've completed the changes to log the Oops info in /var/crash/1.0 file.
> 
> So what's next?
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andy Sharp
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:55 AM
> > To: Rendell Fong
> > Subject: Re: take a 10 minute look at bug 26538
> > 
> > TuxRx is more important.  Forget it.
> > 
> > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:46:24 -0700 Rendell Fong
> > <rendell.fong@onstor.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I've looked at the core file and tried comparing it to a valid one. It
> > is not obvious why gdb64 doesn't like it.   I'll have to get the source to
> > debug it, i.e. run gdb on gdb64 or add some debug code to resolve the
> > problem.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Andy Sharp
> > > > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 5:35 PM
> > > > To: Rendell Fong
> > > > Subject: take a 10 minute look at bug 26538
> > > >
> > > > Hi Rendell,
> > > >
> > > > Do Max a quick favor and take 10 minutes to look at bug 26538 to see
> > if
> > > > you can fix the core file, Max says gdb is having trouble parsing it.
> > I
> > > > don't know anything about this core file business, but maybe you do.
