On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 06:39:11 +0000, David Young wrote:

> It looks to me like it isn't too hard to make a sparse crashdump on x86
> that contains only the pages that are mapped into kernel virtual memory,
> the page directory and page table pages (PDP and PTPs).  Does a crashdump
> require any other pages?  I have a need for compact crashdumps, so I am
> going to work on this over the weekend.

That would be great, thanks. BTW why does the crashdump contain the
physical memory instead of kernel virtual memory (/dev/kmem)? Is the
memory not mapped to kernel actually useful for something?

Bye	Pavel