From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39367) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5wj1-0006CS-Mx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:07:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5wih-0002uH-O8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:07:03 -0500 Received: from david.siemens.de ([192.35.17.14]:19032) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5wih-0002u7-Ev for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:06:43 -0500 Message-ID: <4F59D626.9010504@siemens.com> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:06:30 +0100 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4F5960F7.6040206@cn.fujitsu.com> <20120309.110533.71105037.d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> <4F596A70.9050808@cn.fujitsu.com> <20120309.115325.104044385.d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> <4F59D040.3060506@siemens.com> <4F59D3F1.1010901@cn.fujitsu.com> <4F59D5DB.1060702@siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <4F59D5DB.1060702@siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 05/16 v8] Add API to get memory mapping List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Wen Congyang Cc: "eblake@redhat.com" , HATAYAMA Daisuke , "anderson@redhat.com" , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , "lcapitulino@redhat.com" On 2012-03-09 11:05, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> If crash can work both with and without paging, it should be default >>> *on* to avoid writing cores that can later on only be analyzed with that >>> tool. Still not sure, though, if that changes the requirement on what >>> memory regions should be written in that mode. >> >> If this logic is not remvoed, crash can work both with and without paging. >> But the default value is 'off' now, because the option is '-p'. > > And this would be unfortunate if you do not want to use crash for > analyzing (I'm working on gdb python scripts which will make gdb - one > day - at least as powerful as crash). If paging mode has the same > information that non-paging mode has, I would even suggest to drop it. Err, with "it" = "non-paging mode". Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux