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