[Crash-utility] Why are there two ways of getting register values for active tasks?

[Daisuke HATAYAMA]

From: Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] Why are there two ways of getting register values for active tasks?
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 09:38:12 -0400 (EDT)

> 
> ----- "Daisuke HATAYAMA" <d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Dave.
>> 
>> Well, I have still a question: Does kdump-compressed format contain
>> register values for CPUs?
>> 
>> I've looked into part of makedumpfile reading ELF but found out that
>> yet. It appears to me that makedumpfile ignores all note info except
>> for vmcoreinfo's location.
> 
> That's correct, there are no per-cpu register values.  From the crash
> utility's perspective, all it gets from the makedumpfile-generated
> compressed dumpfile is the diskdump_header and kdump_sub_header:
>

Thanks. It's very helpful.

HATAYAMA, Daisuke