[Crash-utility] problems running crash on recent rawhide live kernels

[Jeff Layton]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:55:08 -0500
Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
>  > Jeff Layton wrote:
>  > > Relevant packages:
>  > >
>  > >     kernel-2.6.24-0.62.rc3.git5.fc9.x86_64
>  > >     kernel-debuginfo-2.6.24-0.62.rc3.git5.fc9.x86_64
>  > >     crash-4.0-4.10.x86_64
>  > >
>  > > ... the host is a FV xen guest (but that shouldn't matter, should
>  > > it?).
> 
> To get crash version 4.0-4.11 to run against that particular
> dumpfile, it needs to know the kernel's "phys_base" relocation
> value.  And I don't know how (or if it's even possible) to get
> it from a fully-virtualized Xen guest dumpfile.  However, if
> you run crash on the live on the kernel that panicked, you can
> determine it.  So running live on kernel-2.6.24-0.62.rc3.git5.fc9
> I see:
> 
>    crash> help -m | grep phys_base
>                    phys_base: ffffffffff200000
>    crash>
> 
> ...which in turn can be used as a command line argument for the
> xendump dumpfile from that kernel.  So taking the sample dumpfile
> you gave me:
> 
> # crash --machdep phys_base=0xffffffffff200000 vmlinux
> vmcore-rawhide.xmdump
> 
> crash 4.0-4.11
> Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007  Red Hat, Inc.
> Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006  IBM Corporation
> Copyright (C) 1999-2006  Hewlett-Packard Co
> Copyright (C) 2005, 2006  Fujitsu Limited
> Copyright (C) 2006, 2007  VA Linux Systems Japan K.K.
> Copyright (C) 2005  NEC Corporation
> Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007  Silicon Graphics, Inc.
> Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002  Mission Critical Linux, Inc.
> This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public
> License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of
> it under certain conditions.  Enter "help copying" to see the
> conditions. This program has absolutely no warranty.  Enter "help
> warranty" for details.
> 
> NOTE: setting phys_base to: 0xffffffffff200000
> 
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> 
>        KERNEL: vmlinux
>      DUMPFILE: vmcore-rawhide.xmdump
>          CPUS: 1
>          DATE: Tue Dec  4 15:41:08 2007
>        UPTIME: 06:10:51
> LOAD AVERAGE: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>         TASKS: 74
>      NODENAME: dhcp231-229.rdu.redhat.com
>       RELEASE: 2.6.24-0.62.rc3.git5.fc9
>       VERSION: #1 SMP Sat Dec 1 13:59:08 EST 2007
>       MACHINE: x86_64  (3458 Mhz)
>        MEMORY: 511.6 MB
>         PANIC: "SysRq : Trigger a crashdump"
>           PID: 0
>       COMMAND: "swapper"
>          TASK: ffffffff813a1780  [THREAD_INFO: ffffffff81496000]
>           CPU: 0
>         STATE: TASK_RUNNING (ACTIVE)
> 
> crash>
> 
> Pain in the ass.  But I don't know any better way.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 

Sorry for the delayed response. Did you need me to get that info from
my xen guest so you could use that coredump, or do you have it
covered? Thanks for fixing up crash, BTW...

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>