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[PATCH] doc: refer to kdump in oops-tracing.txt

Kdump has been merged and supported on several architectures. It is better
to encourage to use kdump rather than non standard kernel crash dump
patches.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Akinobu Mita and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
··· 41 41 run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there 42 42 using your favourite communication program. Minicom works well. 43 43 44 - (3) Patch the kernel with one of the crash dump patches. These save 45 - data to a floppy disk or video rom or a swap partition. None of 46 - these are standard kernel patches so you have to find and apply 47 - them yourself. Search kernel archives for kmsgdump, lkcd and 48 - oops+smram. 44 + (3) Use Kdump (see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt), 45 + extract the kernel ring buffer from old memory with using dmesg 46 + gdbmacro in Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt. 49 47 50 48 51 49 Full Information