| Randy.Dunlap wrote:
|
| > I've done some 2.5.xyz work on kmsgdump (dump kernel messages to
| > floppy). I'll try to get back to it soon.
| >
|
| Thank you! That'd be a god-send for those of us w/o serial
| ports and who have very cramped hands from hand-copying
| panics :-D. Frankly, I can't imagine why something a simple
| as this isn't in the kernel. Technically, it isn't a
| debugger, so I don't think it violates Linus' "No Kernel
| Debuggers in the Kernel" rule.
so.....
kmsgdump for Linux 2.5.65/2.5.66
2003-03-31
version 0.4.5
kmsgdump home: http://w.ods.org/tools/kmsgdump/ (Willy Tarreau)
my kmsgdump patches: http://www.xenotime.net/linux/kmsgdump/
'kmsgdump-2565.diff' applies cleanly to Linux 2.5.65 and with
just a few patch offsets to Linux 2.5.66.
Tested on P4 UP and P4 SMP (Linux 2.5.65/66).
======================================================================
kmsgdump is a Linux kernel patch for x86 that can be used to dump the
contents of the kernel log buffer to a floppy disk or to a printer
(one that the system BIOS knows about) after a kernel panic happens.
======================================================================
caveats:
1. This version of kmsgdump doesn't support kernel log buffers of more
than 60 KB (due to x86 real-mode segment addressing). However, the
kernel log buffer is currently always a power of 2 (like 16 or 32 or
64 KB), so a 32 KB log buffer is the largest that is currently supported.
2. The kmsgdump text-mode interface doesn't work with a USB-only keyboard
setup. I had to add a PS/2 keyboard to my test system to use it.
======================================================================
TODO:
1. Limit LOG_BUF_LEN to 60 KB then fix this limit by having a moving
segment register value
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