[Crash-utility] The problems when running SuSE 12 on VirtualBox

[David Mair]

On 11/19/2015 07:45 AM, Dave Anderson wrote:

Hi Dave,

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>> (2) Execute "crash -d8" on physical machine will cause crash utility core
>> dump.
> 
> I can reproduce this, so I'll look into it.  It's related to the /dev/mem "test"
> to determine whether the kernel was configured with CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM, where
> it tries to read from pfn 257 (just above the CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM limit), but
> gets into an infinite loop when used in conjunction with -d.   
> 
> Anyway, just continue to use /proc/kcore and you should be fine.

I assume switch_to_proc_kcore() isn't Xen specific but since it will
happen on all our dom0's would you care if I continued with it?

-- 
David.