Re: [PATCH v2] kdump: Fix gdb macros work work with newer and 64-bit kernels

[Baoquan He]

On 05/16/16 at 06:52am, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On 05/16/2016 04:32 AM, Baoquan He wrote:
> >On 05/10/16 at 07:30pm, minyard@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >>From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >>Lots of little changes needed to be made to clean these up, remove the
> >>four byte pointer assumption and traverse the pid queue properly.
> >>Also consolidate the traceback code into a single function instead
> >>of having three copies of it.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Hi Corey,
> >
> >Today I tried gdbmacro.txt and found dmesg doesn't work. I tested it
> >on the latest 4.6.0 kernel. And I directly copy /proc/vmcore out
> >and use gdb to open it by below command"
> >
> >gdb vmlinux /var/crash/vmcore --"gdbmacros.txt"
> >
> >All macro functions work well except of dmesg since code inside refer to
> >the deprecated variable like "log_end" and "logged_chars". But these
> >have been changed since this commit:
> >
> >commit 7ff9554bb578ba02166071d2d487b7fc7d860d62
> >Author: Kay Sievers <kay@xxxxxxxx>
> >Date:   Thu May 3 02:29:13 2012 +0200
> >
> >     printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer
> >
> >So invoking dmesg will cause an error message printing out:
> >
> >(gdb) dmesg
> >No symbol "log_end" in current context.
> 
> Yes, I was actually aware of that, but that's a different issue and I
> hadn't thought about it much.

Got it. Then fixes covered by this patch looks good. Ack it, thanks
for this effort.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
Baoquan