Re: how to make kernel do system dump ?

[hkannan@xxxxxxxxxxx (Hari Kannan)]

Isnt it true that lkcd cannot show stack backtraces for loadable modules?

Hari

> 
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 02:08:11PM -0800, Tom Morano wrote:
> > It contains an example of how you to modify the sys_setpriority()
> > function so that, it causes either a panic or a SEGV trap. There is
> > also a sample program that calls setpriority() to initiate the dump.
> 
> That sounds rather complicated. Why don't you just load a small kernel
> module for it ? 
> 
> #include <linux/module.h>
> int init_module(void)
> {
>       panic("Dump"); 
> }
> 
> 
> gcc -O2 -DMODULE -c module.c 
> insmod module.o
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -Andi
>