Are swapped pages saved as part of a vmcore or lost?

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Issue

  1. Are pages which were in swap only at the time of the crash are saved as part of the vmcore or lost?
  2. Is it possible debugging to be carried out on swapped pages after a panic if necessary?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
    • kexec-tools

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