Re: [Crash-utility] Why are there two ways of getting register values for active tasks?
From: Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] Why are there two ways of getting register values for active
tasks?
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 09:38:12 -0400 (EDT)
----- "Daisuke HATAYAMA" <d.hatayama(a)jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave.
>
> Well, I have still a question: Does kdump-compressed format contain
> register values for CPUs?
>
> I've looked into part of makedumpfile reading ELF but found out that
> yet. It appears to me that makedumpfile ignores all note info except
> for vmcoreinfo's location.
That's correct, there are no per-cpu register values. From the crash
utility's perspective, all it gets from the makedumpfile-generated
compressed dumpfile is the diskdump_header and kdump_sub_header:
Thanks. It's very helpful.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke