[Crash-utility] [PATCH 0/5] crash: Small bundle of fixes for Xen

[Dave Anderson]

----- Original Message -----
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 09:31:37AM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:47:57PM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
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> > > > Does that work for you?
> > >
> > > Thanks. It works. I though that there is an issue with conring
> > > symbol too.
> > > Have you done other tests on RHEL5?
> >
> > I just did some basic commands, and I didn't see any other problems besides
> > the log/conring issue.  But I don't really have a good test suite for the Xen
> > hypervisor options.  And honestly, I've never even seen a "real" hypervisor
> > crash dump, I just have a few forced samples.  If you'd like, I can give you a
> 
> Our support team is going to use this feature more widely.
> It looks that we will have good testbed for Xen crash support.
> 
> > pointer to a really early RHEL5.2-era (2.6.18-89.el5) xen-syms/vmcore pair
> > that you can use to verify your changes on if you don't have any dumps of
> > that era available.
> 
> Yes please. It will be very helpful.

Here's one:

 http://people.redhat.com/anderson/xen-5.2-dump.tar.gz

It's really old -- it needs the --xen_phys_start 0x3f000000 command line
option because that version didn't pass the phys_start location in the
dumpfile.

Thanks,
  Dave