From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Here is a patch to finally bring oops-tracing.txt into the 2.6 era.
Signed-Off-By: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---
25-akpm/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 32 +++++++++++++++-----------------
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff -puN Documentation/oops-tracing.txt~make-documentation-oops-tracingtxt-relevant-to-26 Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
--- 25/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt~make-documentation-oops-tracingtxt-relevant-to-26 2005-03-28 16:01:35.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt 2005-03-28 16:01:35.000000000 -0800
@@ -1,23 +1,22 @@
+NOTE: ksymoops is useless on 2.6. Please use the Oops in its original format
+(from dmesg, etc). Ignore any references in this or other docs to "decoding
+the Oops" or "running it through ksymoops". If you post an Oops fron 2.6 that
+has been run through ksymoops, people will just tell you to repost it.
+
Quick Summary
-------------
-Install ksymoops from
-ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops
-Read the ksymoops man page.
-ksymoops < the_oops.txt
-
-and send the output the maintainer of the kernel area that seems to be
-involved with the problem, not to the ksymoops maintainer. Don't worry
-too much about getting the wrong person. If you are unsure send it to
-the person responsible for the code relevant to what you were doing.
-If it occurs repeatably try and describe how to recreate it. Thats
-worth even more than the oops
+Find the Oops and send it to the maintainer of the kernel area that seems to be
+involved with the problem. Don't worry too much about getting the wrong person.
+If you are unsure send it to the person responsible for the code relevant to
+what you were doing. If it occurs repeatably try and describe how to recreate
+it. That's worth even more than the oops.
If you are totally stumped as to whom to send the report, send it to
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. Thanks for your help in making Linux as
stable as humanly possible.
-Where is the_oops.txt?
+Where is the Oops?
----------------------
Normally the Oops text is read from the kernel buffers by klogd and
@@ -43,15 +42,14 @@ the disk is not available then you have
them yourself. Search kernel archives for kmsgdump, lkcd and
oops+smram.
-No matter how you capture the log output, feed the resulting file to
-ksymoops along with /proc/ksyms and /proc/modules that applied at the
-time of the crash. /var/log/ksymoops can be useful to capture the
-latter, man ksymoops for details.
-
Full Information
----------------
+NOTE: the message from Linus below applies to 2.4 kernel. I have preserved it
+for historical reasons, and because some of the information in it still
+applies. Especially, please ignore any references to ksymoops.
+
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
How to track down an Oops.. [originally a mail to linux-kernel]
_