[Crash-utility] dom0 analysis for IA64

Akio Takebe takebe_akio at jp.fujitsu.com
Fri May 11 08:37:24 UTC 2007


Hi, Dave and Oda

Thank you for your work.

>The sample vmcore was taken by fujitsu's "sadump" tool which
>is a hardware assist tool.
>Putting the dump button casuse INIT inerrupt and then 
>registers are saved and CPUs stop. The hardware dumps all
>memory after that. The memory image is converted to ELF
>vmcore (netdump style) finally.
>
>It is hard to add XEN_ELFNOTE_CRASH_INFO notes in this
>procedure (I think).
>(I think it is easy to change to converting kdump style.)
>
>I will ask to fujitsu's people whether it is available. 
>
Yes, it is hard. So I cannot change the dump style soon.
Could you please leave check_netdump_xen()?
Or should we add a option?

Best Regards,

Akio Takebe




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