Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH 0/5] crash: Small bundle of fixes for Xen

----- Original Message ----- > On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 11:15:29AM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote: > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > Hi, > > > > > > It looks that Xen support for crash have not been maintained > > > since 2009. I am trying to fix this. Here it is small > > > bundle of fixes: > > > - xen: Always calculate max_cpus value, > > > - xen: Read only crash notes for onlined CPUs, > > > - x86/xen: Read variables from dynamically allocated per_cpu > > > data, > > > - xen: Get idle data from alternative source, > > > - xen: Read data correctly from dynamically allocated console > > > ring > > > too. > > > > > > Daniel > > > > Daniel, > > > > Can you absolutely confirm that these changes are all > > backwards-compatible? > > I have not done tests with older versions of Xen. However, > I made all patches with backward compatibility in mind. Anyway, > If you wish I could do tests with let's say Xen Ver. 3.4 > and Xen Linux Kernel Ver. 2.6.18 at least. > > Daniel That would be helpful -- I have very few Xen hypervisor sample dumpfiles, and if I'm not mistaken, RHEL5 only went as far as Xen 3.1-something?