[Crash-utility] [PATCH 0/6] gcore: a bug fix and improvements on register restoration for active tasks

[Dave Anderson]

----- Original Message -----
> Hello Dave,
> 
> This patch series for gcore extension module fix a bug and improves
> register restoration for active tasks. Could you review these? I'm
> going to release these after your review.

The patches look fine to me -- although it is not necessary for you
to get my review/approval to update the gcore source code.  You are the 
maintainer, so you can send me an updated gcore.tar.bz2 file whenever
you like, and I will post it on the crash extensions web page.

Thanks,
  Dave

 
> In summary,
> 
> - The first patch fixes a bug that a target task context is wrongly
> specified in the process of getting NT_PRSTATUS on vmcore in
> ELF. Without this patch, all the register values but the one of
> the task user mannually specifies are unintensionally equal each
> other.
> 
> - The remainig patches implements register restorement for active
> tasks from exception frame and KVMDUMP notes. By this, register
> values for active tasks can be correctly restored for KDUMP,
> NETDUMP, DISKDUMP and KVMDUMP formats.
> 
> Thanks.
> HATAYAMA Daisuke