Bug#623177: linux-2.6: Please enable CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP on x86 architectures

2012-06-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 00:44 -0700, John Wright wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 07:02:11PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: The help text for this option is: Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels which are loaded in

Bug#623177: linux-2.6: Please enable CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP on x86 architectures

2012-06-10 Thread John Wright
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 03:02:30PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 00:44 -0700, John Wright wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 07:02:11PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: The help text for this option is: Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. This should be

Bug#623177: linux-2.6: Please enable CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP on x86 architectures

2012-06-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
Thanks a lot for the extra information. I'm convinced and I'll enable this for the next upload. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#623177: linux-2.6: Please enable CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP on x86 architectures

2012-06-10 Thread John Wright
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:55:19AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Thanks a lot for the extra information. I'm convinced and I'll enable this for the next upload. Wonderful, thank you! (And sorry I didn't include that information from the beginning.) -- John Wright j...@debian.org

Bug#623177: linux-2.6: Please enable CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP on x86 architectures

2012-06-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
The help text for this option is: Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into a specially reserved region and then later executed after a crash by kdump/kexec. ... Are

Bug#623177: linux-2.6: Please enable CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP on x86 architectures

2011-10-04 Thread Sven Ulland
Seconded. Also reported in [1]. The status of this issue is also the same in Wheezy's linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64 and experimental's linux-image-3.1.0-rc7-amd64_3.1.0~rc7-1~experimental.1_amd64.deb I haven't been able to figure out if enabling CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP adds any overhead at all. Are there

Bug#623177: linux-2.6: Please enable CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP on x86 architectures

2011-04-17 Thread John Wright
Source: linux-2.6 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Now that we ship debug info, missing CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y is the only thing preventing users of stock Debian kernels from easily taking crash dumps with makedumpfile/kdump-tools and analyzing them with the crash utility. I have built a kernel with