[Crash-utility] crash does not support recent qemu save-vm formats
Dave Anderson
anderson at redhat.com
Fri Apr 23 13:57:46 UTC 2010
----- "Sergey Svishchev" <svs at ropnet.ru> wrote:
> Dave Anderson wrote:
>
> >> See also
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/crash/+bug/559219
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sergey Svishchev
> >
> > BTW, if you follow the advice in the ubuntu bug description, does
> > the crash session work normally?
>
> (It's my bug report :-)
>
> Yes, mostly. Date is wrong (DATE: Sun Oct 26 03:35:21 2594), 'bt'
> reports some errors but otherwise backtraces look sane.
>
> crash> bt
> PID: 0 TASK: ffffffff81796600 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "swapper"
> #0 [ffffffff8176fe58] schedule at ffffffff81525251
> bt: invalid kernel virtual address: 41 type: "call byte"
> bt: invalid kernel virtual address: 1587b type: "call byte"
> bt: invalid kernel virtual address: 1587b type: "call byte"
> bt: invalid kernel virtual address: 1587b type: "call byte"
> bt: invalid kernel virtual address: 1587b type: "call byte"
> bt: invalid kernel virtual address: 1587b type: "call byte"
> bt: invalid kernel virtual address: 1587b type: "call byte"
> bt: invalid kernel virtual address: 1587b type: "call byte"
> bt: invalid kernel virtual address: 6db6db6db6db6db2 type: "call
> byte"
> bt: invalid kernel virtual address: 937fb type: "call byte"
> #1 [ffffffff8176ff00] cpu_idle at ffffffff81010e45
>
> --
> Sergey Svishchev
Yeah, something is still askew. I just got this from Paolo Bonzini,
the author of the qemu-related code in crash:
> > By any chance do you have any insights re: the structure-related
> > changes associated with CPU_SAVE_VERSION?. This is an upstream bug
> > report, but I note that in qemu-kvm-0.11.0-rc1.fc12.i686, it's equal
> > to 10 in target-i386/cpu.h.
>
> It needs an update for newer qemus. I'll take a look, as probably
> we'd want this on RHEL6 too (or maybe not, I used crash/kvm on RHEL6
> about a month ago).
>
> Paolo
Please keep that dump around for an upcoming test patch...
Thanks,
Dave
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