[Crash-utility] [PATCH 1/2] vmware_vmss: get proper ITDR

Alexey Makhalov amakhalov at vmware.com
Tue Oct 27 00:58:03 UTC 2020


Hi Daisuke,

> 
> It looks that this is useful regardless of crash dump mechanism such as VMware, virsh dump, sadump and so on.
> Should be in kaslr_helper.c.
> 

Agree. It can be added later after introduction of pc->get_register(cpu, regno) API, so high-level code such as kaslr_helper.c can use it.
As of now, backup method (page tree walking) implemented in this patch set will handle zeroed IDTR.

Thanks,
—Alexey





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