[Crash-utility] crash version 4.0-3.15 is available

Isaku Yamahata yamahata at valinux.co.jp
Thu Dec 21 02:04:31 UTC 2006


On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 10:15:32AM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:

> - Introduced support for xendumps of para-virtualized ia64 kernels.
>   It should be noted that currently the ia64 Xen kernel does not
>   lay down a switch_stack for the panic task, so only raw "bt -t"
>   backtraces can be done on the panic task.  (anderson at redhat.com)

Hi Dave.

The current "xm dump-core" on ia64 loses some registers infomation
which is saved on xen register stack.
e.g. r33, ... aren't saved in domU xendump file.
Probably ia64 specific code would be necessarry for it.
This will be addressed as post-3.0.4 effort and the format will be changed.

-- 
yamahata




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