Linux kernel core dumps are often critical for diagnosing and fixing problems with the OS. We’ve published several blogs related to kernel core dumps, including how to generate them, how to estimate their size, how to analyze them with Drgn, and even how to manually extract stack function arguments from them. But have you ever wondered what’s really in a core dump? In this blog, we’ll answer that question. We’ll start by discussing the different software which can actually produce a vmcore (ther...