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Add a tool to convert kernel minidump to elf coredump
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Authored by borako.ozarslan_gmail.com on Feb 19 2019, 9:01 PM.
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Summary

Add a tool that converts a given kernel minidump to elf coredump format
so that gdb or lldb can directly read this instead of learning about
the special format.

submitted by: Bora Ozarslan borako.ozarslan@gmail.com

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emaste added inline comments.
tools/tools/minidump_to_elf/minidump-to-elf.1
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emaste added inline comments.
tools/tools/minidump_to_elf/main.c
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we may want to avoid modifying libkvm (we can just open the kernel again and call elf_begin).