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

Akio Takebe takebe_akio at jp.fujitsu.com
Thu Dec 21 03:00:40 UTC 2006


Hi, Dave

The belows are great information for xen-ia64.
We are happy because of starting support it.

>- 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)
>
>- Introduced support for "xm save" dumpfiles of para-virtualized ia64
>  kernels, which use a completely different format than that used for
>  x86 and x86_64.  (anderson at redhat.com)
>
Can we use bt with "xm save" dumpfiles of para-virtualized ia64?
Is "xm save" dumpfile better for crash-utils than "xendump" file?

Best Regards,

Akio Takebe




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