extract the process arguments from the crashdump

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 05:32:21PM +0500, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 14.05.2018 16:15, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 01:02:28PM +0500, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>
> >> Is there any way to extract the process arguments from the system
> >> crashdump ? If yes, could anyone please explain to me how do I do it.
> > ps -M vmcore.file -N /boot/mykernel/kernel -auxww
> 
> Well, unfortunately this gives me exactly same information as the 
> core.X.txt file contains - process names without arguments, and I really 
> want to know what arguments ctladm had when the system has crashed:

Most likely the in-kernel cache for the process arguments was dropped.