[Crash-utility] crash can not read ia64 lkcd v9 dump

[Alan Tyson]

> But first I'll fix the header format which _is_ different in crash and
> our SLES9 kernel (and klcdutils), and if it then doesn't work I'll
> come back to the system maps.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Regards,
>  Bernhard

Bernhard,

There are two changes rquired to fix up the header format for SLES9.
One is NR_CPUS and the other is a missing fiels in the dump header.
This may be of help, it' what I've been using:

# cat sles9.patch
diff -Nurp crash-4.0-3.13/defs.h crash-4.0-3.13-sles9/defs.h
--- crash-4.0-3.13/defs.h       2006-11-27 18:41:27.000000000 +0000
+++ crash-4.0-3.13-sles9/defs.h 2006-12-01 14:55:39.727248386 +0000
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 #define NR_CPUS  (32)
 #endif
 #ifdef IA64
-#define NR_CPUS  (1024)
+#define NR_CPUS  (128)
 #endif
 #ifdef PPC64
 #define NR_CPUS  (128)
diff -Nurp crash-4.0-3.13/lkcd_fix_mem.h crash-4.0-3.13-sles9/lkcd_fix_mem.h
--- crash-4.0-3.13/lkcd_fix_mem.h       2006-11-27 18:41:27.000000000 +0000
+++ crash-4.0-3.13-sles9/lkcd_fix_mem.h 2006-12-01 14:55:39.727248386 +0000
@@ -266,6 +266,9 @@ typedef struct _dump_header_asm_s {
         /* the size of this header (in case we can't read it) */
         uint32_t             dha_header_size;

+       /* load address of the kernel (added by sles9 patch) */
+       uint64_t             dha_kernel_addr;
+
         /* pointer to pt_regs */
 //     struct pt_regs      *dha_pt_regs; // version 4 changed this
        uint64_t             dha_pt_regs;
diff -Nurp crash-4.0-3.13/.rh_rpm_package crash-4.0-3.13-sles9/.rh_rpm_package
--- crash-4.0-3.13/.rh_rpm_package      1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ crash-4.0-3.13-sles9/.rh_rpm_package        2006-12-01 14:55:39.733107761 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+4.0-3.13-sles9

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Alan Tyson, HP Services.