Re: Re: [PATCH]: kexec: framework and i386

[Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com>]

Hi, Kazuo

Good work!
Could you explain usage of your tool?
For using your tool, do I need xen-syms, vmlinux(with debug option), 
and so on?
Can this tool extract only dom0 from coredump file?
Can this tool also extract xen or domU?

Best Regards,

Akio Takebe

>I forgot attach my scripts and readme.
>
>On 4/24/06, Kazuo Moriwaka <moriwaka@valinux.co.jp> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 4/24/06, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> > > When a panic occurs, Linux kexec jumps into the preloaded
>> > > kdump kernel (if any).  This kernel then reinitiases the
>> > > hardware, using its own device drivers and uses these to
>> > > write out the dump to disk.  ISTR that the dump format is
>> > > currently ELF, although I remember some talk on the Fastboot
>> > > ML about adding some extra headers to make OS debugging easier.
>> >
>> > Is Xen and the dom0 kernel dumped as as separate ELF cores?
>>
>> I'm working on clipping domain image from whole-machine dump for x86_32 
>> now.
>> Now my prototype reads ELF core and write dom0 image.
>>
>> todo:
>> - Output format is not ELF core yet. Xen domain core image
>> format(works with gdbserverxen).
>> - register information is not work well.
>
>--
>Kazuo Moriwaka
>
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