[Crash-utility] user-space enhancements

[Michael Holzheu]

Am Donnerstag, den 04.12.2008, 14:06 -0800 schrieb Castor Fu:
> There was a group at IBM (Stefan Schlosser <sschloss at de.ibm.com>)
> a few years ago which set up stuff to generate 
> a elf corefile for a user space process for lcrash.

Stefan did that as diploma thesis in our department at IBM. The ugly
part was the swap file handling. The swap files had to be saved after a
dump in order to access all user space memory. We added the save
function in lcrash:

lcrash -S <swapdump>

to generate a dump-file containing all used swapped out pages of all
swap areas.

And we added an extra parameter <swapdump> when starting lcrash to
analyze the dump:

lcrash map.x dump.x kerntypes.x <swapdump>

Here the posting on the lkcd mailing list:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=OF7160ABF7.B54F4970-ONC1256BCE.004FD0A0-C1256BCE.0054E5BA%40de.ibm.com

But the code was never integrated officially in lcrash.

Michael