[Crash-utility] [PATCH] Use registers from LKCD header to getstarting ESP register

[Bernhard Walle]

* Troy Heber <troy.heber at hp.com> [2007-05-02 18:56]:
> On 05/02/07 17:58, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > That was no IA64 machine. It was x86_64 and 2.6.5. (In fact, the patch
> > doesn't retrieve the registers on IA64 for the stack pointer.)
> 
> Sorry, I should have broken the paragraph there, it was more of a
> assertion that IA64 is fine, i.e. no reason to change.

Ok. Actually, the patch doesn't change the behaviour on IA64, it just
refactores it because of the x86_64 change.

> > Why do we need to guess the registers if we really *have* it in the
> > dump? What's wrong with the general idea to fetch the dump header
> > and to use that information?
> 
> To address all of Dave's concerns with the submitted patch. It was
> simply a question of, if there is a simple workaround can we just use
> that instead to minimize the changes. I didn't mean to imply that
> accessing the arch specific dump header was bad idea, it's just that
> its arch specific and requires a rather large patch.

I'll take a look if I can fix the problem with a workaround. Give me a
few days to find time ... ;-)


Thanks,
   Bernhard