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GDB commands can be used to create scripts to dissect the crash dump. Attached are a few scripts, courtesy of Alexey Lyashkov . These scripts can be used as a basis of building other useful gdb functions that can assist in analyzing a crash dump.link.gdb, lnet-cpt.gdb, lnet.gdb, o2ib.gdbI've also added more functionality to them. Also attached is a program which can extrack lustre logs from the dump file: Crash-tools.

Resources

Below are some resources that explain the registers and the architecture.

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