Bug report data collection tool

I was thinking that perhaps it would be useful to have a tool to help collate information after a hang/crash. Something you would run on the next boot.

I wasn't able to tell from a cursory glance at pdc_stable.c, but if the driver supports it then perhaps the tool could read HPMC/TOC data post crash from nvram (rather than having to write out or use a serial console to capture 'ser pim' data).

It could then cross reference the
crash address with the System.map, gather pre-crash data from the logs and a machine profile from /proc.

If something like this would be useful, I could do with having a project to help me learn the ropes.

Quoted 8 lines · Kurt Fitzner

I was thinking that perhaps it would be useful to have a tool to help collate information after a hang/crash. Something you would run on the next boot.

I wasn't able to tell from a cursory glance at pdc_stable.c, but if the driver supports it then perhaps the tool could read HPMC/TOC data post crash from nvram (rather than having to write out or use a serial console to capture 'ser pim' data).

We thought of that before but there are a few issues:
1) stable storage access is only via PDC calls.
2) format of PIM data is platform dependent - ie every model machine could have a different format. In practice, ISTR the format usually is the same for a given processor model and not each model of machine.

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It could then cross reference the
crash address with the System.map, gather pre-crash data from the logs and a machine profile from /proc.

If something like this would be useful, I could do with having a project to help me learn the ropes.

Lack of documentation will make this a fairly hard project. :^(