Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jul 2018 20:27:42 -0700 | From | Omar Sandoval <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] proc/kcore: add vmcoreinfo note to /proc/kcore |
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 07:44:21PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:09:39 -0700 Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com> wrote: > > > From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> > > > > The vmcoreinfo information is useful for runtime debugging tools, not > > just for crash dumps. A lot of this information can be determined by > > other means, but this is much more convenient. > > > > What effect does this have upon the overall size of the dump file?
About 2 kB on my machine, and no more than one page + the few bytes of extra headers.
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