Summary:
- Generated and saved Kdump successfully
- Older versions of gdb like 5.3post-0.20021129.18rh, are not showing the trace
and thread info properly. On the other hand newer versions like
6.0post-0.20040223.19rh are displaying the information more accrately.
Details and Dump analysis:
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GDB Test Results:
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#0 crash_get_current_regs (regs=0xef6b5f28) at arch/i386/kernel/crash.c:99
99 }
(gdb) info thread
2 process 0 crash_get_current_regs (regs=0xef6b5f28)
at arch/i386/kernel/crash.c:99
* 1 process 10392 crash_get_current_regs (regs=0xef6b5f28)
at arch/i386/kernel/crash.c:99
(gdb) thread 1
[Switching to thread 1 (process 10392)]#0 crash_get_current_regs (
regs=0xef6b5f28) at arch/i386/kernel/crash.c:99
99 }
(gdb) bt
#0 crash_get_current_regs (regs=0xef6b5f28) at arch/i386/kernel/crash.c:99
#1 0xc011590d in crash_save_self () at arch/i386/kernel/crash.c:107
#2 0xc046ad20 in ident_map ()
(gdb) info register
eax 0xef6b4000 -278183936
ecx 0xef6b5f28 -278175960
edx 0xc0556f80 -1068142720
ebx 0xef6b5f28 -278175960
esp 0xef6b5f1c 0xef6b5f1c
ebp 0xef6b4000 0xef6b4000
esi 0x0 0
edi 0xbf8ffba8 -1081082968
eip 0xc01158de 0xc01158de
eflags 0x86 134
cs 0xef6b0060 -278200224
ss 0xef6b0068 -278200216
ds 0xef6b007b -278200197
es 0xef6b007b -278200197
fs 0x0 0
gs 0x33 51