Re: how to make kernel do system dump ?

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

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