mchoo7 wrote:

> > ProcessFreeBSDKernelElfCore will handle fulldump and minidump in elf core 
> > format converted with md2elf utility. ProcessFreeBSDKernelKvmCore will 
> > handle original minidump and /dev/mem.
> 
> Remind me why you need to convert minidump into ELF. I recall that the 
> minidump from FreeBSD isn't the same as 
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad/+/master/docs/getting_started_with_breakpad.md,
>  right? Is that the reason?
> 
> Just seems odd to write a conversion utility but then make LLDB support all 3 
> formats/data sources anyway.

Minidump is full dump minus physical pages unused. So if a machine was using 
4GB out of 16GB at the time running, minidump will be ~4GB while full dump will 
be ~16GB.

I don't think users will need to manually trigger the conversion utility if 
this can be handled by savecore(8).

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/80785
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