Re: [PATCH v2 08/12] xenctx: Add -d <daddr> option to dump memory at daddr as a stack.

[Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>]

On 11/07/13 03:22, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 06.11.13 at 21:08, Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com> wrote:
>> @@ -956,9 +973,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>>       }
>>   
>>       if (xenctx.all_vcpus)
>> -        dump_all_vcpus();
>> +        dump_all_vcpus(stk_addr);
>>       else
>> -        dump_ctx(vcpu);
>> +        dump_ctx(vcpu, stk_addr);
> For one, it hardly makes much sense to dump all vCPU-s with a
> single stack address. And assuming a stack can't sit at address
> zero is wrong too - you shouldn't make any assumptions in
> particular for HVM guests.
>
> So what you intend here should lead to just the requested
> "stack" to be printed, without touching other functionality (i.e.
> likely you'll want the "if()" above preceded by another one, and
> itself converted to an "else if()").
>
> Jan
>
It is clear that handling "-d" out side of dump_ctx() make sense. Not so sure on the simple else.  I think that -C should still dump all cpus even if -d is provided.  I guess I could complain if both -d and -C are specified, but I like to just do the requested actions.
    -Don Slutz