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

[Dave Anderson]

Bernhard Walle wrote:

> Hello Alan,
>
> * Alan Tyson <atyson at hp.com> [2006-12-11 10:10]:
> > >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!
> >
> > 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:
>
> Sorry for the late reply ... :)
>
> I hacked a patch that does that dynamically. The issue is that
> lkcd's lcrash _doesn't_ have that problem because it reads all offsets
> of that structure dynamically from kerntypes (the kernel has the same
> structures) while crash does that statically.
>
> However, that patch at least works for both SLES-10 and SLES-9 kernels
> on IA-64 (I don't know why the position of dha_kernel_addr was
> changed, sorry :)) and is better than recompiling crash. Maybe it also
> helps you. It will be included at least in openSUSE 10.3 packages.
>
> Regards,
>   Bernhard

Hi Bernhard,

I'm not sure whether you're requesting that this patch be applied in
the mainline version or not?

In any case, if it is, I'll let my LKCD-ia64 maintainer (troy.heber at hp.com)
open the gate.

Troy?

Thanks,
  Dave