From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Viktor Prutyanov <viktor.prutyanov@virtuozzo.com>,
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, rth@twiddle.net, rkagan@virtuozzo.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dump: add kernel_gs_base to QEMU CPU state
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:31:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c327b20d-b73e-2e63-194a-536c7243b53e@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180711192609.70582657@vp-pc>
On 11/07/2018 18:26, Viktor Prutyanov wrote:
>> Where are the tools using this information, that need to be
>> updated? Won't this break existing versions of those tools?
>>
>> Is the dump format and pointers to available tools documented
>> somewhere?
> I hope that someone from community knows about those tools because I
> can't find such tools.
>
I checked crash, and it doesn't have any issue with QEMUCPUState that is
bigger than what is currently in QEMU. It doesn't use anything but CR3
and IDT base. It also doesn't at all check the version! :O
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-11 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-10 15:21 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dump: add kernel_gs_base to QEMU CPU state Viktor Prutyanov
2018-07-11 16:00 ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-07-11 16:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-07-11 19:19 ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-07-11 16:26 ` Viktor Prutyanov
2018-07-11 16:31 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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