Documentation for Kdump - The kexec-based Crash Dumping Solution¶
This document includes overview, setup and installation, and analysis information.
The Linux Kernel
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Contents
Working with the development community
- Development process
- Submitting patches
- Code of conduct
- Maintainer handbook
- All development-process docs
Internal API manuals
Development tools and processes
- Licensing rules
- Writing documentation
- Development tools
- Testing guide
- Hacking guide
- Tracing
- Fault injection
- Livepatching
- Rust
User-oriented documentation
- Administration
- General guides to kernel administration
- Booting the kernel
- Tracking down and identifying problems
- Reporting issues
- Reporting regressions
- How to quickly build a trimmed Linux kernel
- How to verify bugs and bisect regressions
- Bug hunting
- Bisecting a regression
- Tainted kernels
- Ramoops oops/panic logger
- Dynamic debug
- Explaining the “No working init found.” boot hang message
- Documentation for Kdump - The kexec-based Crash Dumping Solution
- Performance monitor support
- pstore block oops/panic logger
- Clearing WARN_ONCE
- Reducing OS jitter due to per-cpu kthreads
- Softlockup detector and hardlockup detector (aka nmi_watchdog)
- Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS)
- Error decoding
- Address translation
- Linux Magic System Request Key Hacks
- Core-kernel subsystems
- Block-layer and filesystem administration
- Device-specific guides
- Workload analysis
- Everything else
- Build system
- Reporting issues
- Userspace tools
- Userspace API
Firmware-related documentation
Architecture-specific documentation
Other documentation
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