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Special module to allow the crash utility to extract only the lustre
debug information from a dump.

Before building we need to setup the environment. For RHEL systems you
need to install crash-devel so mk.sh will work. Also install the
debuginfo kernel rpms as well as the lustre debuginfo rpms.

Build as follows:

  contrib/debug_tools/crash-mod/mk.sh

  ...or if you prefer...

  gcc -nostartfiles -shared -rdynamic -I/usr/include/crash -o lustre-ext.so lustre-ext.c -fPIC -D<arch>

  Then copy lustre-ext.so to /usr/lib64/crash/extensions/

Example usage:

  # Launch crash against a crash dump or live kernel to extract
  # and re-assemble the binary lustre debug log.
  > crash <your kernel crash dump> <your vmlinux>
    ...
    crash> mod -S
      ...
    crash> extend lustre.so
      lustre.so: shared object loaded
    crash> lustre -l /tmp/foo.dl
      lustre: Dumped 2560 debug pages from CPU 0
      lustre: Dumped 2560 debug pages from CPU 1
      lustre: Dumped 2560 debug pages from CPU 2
      lustre: Dumped 2560 debug pages from CPU 3
      lustre: Dumped 2560 debug pages from CPU 4
      lustre: Dumped 2560 debug pages from CPU 5
      lustre: Dumped 2560 debug pages from CPU 6
      lustre: Dumped 2560 debug pages from CPU 7
      lustre: Dumped 20480 total debug pages from 8 CPUs to /tmp/foo.dl
    crash> quit

  # Convert the binary debug log to a text debug log
  > /usr/sbin/lctl df /tmp/foo.dl >/tmp/foo.dk

  # View your debug log
  > vim /tmp/foo.dk