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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

On 10/25/2011 10:52 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> >  Crash uses a heuristic based on the IDT base to identify the base from
>> >  migrate-to-file output.  It also needs CR3 in order to read from
>> >  virtual address.
> Does elf not store cr3?  Perhaps a note with the contents of the
> privileged cpu registers is needed.

Yes.  It would be nice if this note could be somewhat standardized.

Jan, is there a code sample somewhere for the x86-gdb summer of code 
project?

Paolo