On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:10:24PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, OBATA Noboru wrote:
> >
> > I have a bitter experience in analyzing a partial dump. The
> > dump completely lacks the PTE pages of user processes and I had
> > to give up analysis then. A partial dump has a risk of failure
> > in analysis.
>
> Page tables of user processes are very often essential in a dump.
> Data pages of user processes are almost always just a waste of
> space and time in a dump. Please don't judge against partial
> dumps on the basis of one that was badly selected.
We've had hard-to-reproduce problems out in the field where being able
to find the data pages of the user process was critical to figuring
out what the heck was going on. So I wouldn't be quite so eager to
dismiss the need for user pages. There are times when they come in
quite handy....
- Ted
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
