Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 01:37:37 -0700 From: daniel.kiper(a)oracle.com To: duanshuidao(a)hotmail.com CC: crash-utility(a)redhat.com Subject: RE: [Crash-utility] how to generate xen hypervisor core though kdump or other way? Hi, > crash 5.1.9 > Copyright (C) 2002-2011 Red Hat, Inc. > Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation > Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co > Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Fujitsu Limited > Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. > Copyright (C) 2005 NEC Corporation > Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc. > Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. > This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, > and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under > certain conditions. Enter "help copying" to see the conditions. > This program has absolutely no warranty. Enter "help warranty" for details. > > crash: vmlinux-3.0.13-0.27-xen.gz: original filename unknown > Use "-f vmlinux-3.0.13-0.27-xen.gz" on command line to prevent this message. > > GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0 > Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" > and "show warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"... > > KERNEL: vmlinux-3.0.13-0.27-xen.gz > DEBUGINFO: ../lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-3.0.13-0.27-xen.debug > DUMPFILE: /mnt/winimg/crash/2012-09-30-19:03/vmcore > CPUS: 2 > DATE: Sun Sep 30 19:02:52 2012 > UPTIME: 07:45:24 > LOAD AVERAGE: 0.32, 0.23, 0.14 > TASKS: 207 > NODENAME: HjCloud > RELEASE: 3.0.13-0.27-xen > VERSION: #1 SMP Wed Feb 15 13:33:49 UTC 2012 (d73692b) > MACHINE: x86_64 (2793 Mhz) > MEMORY: 3.6 GB > PANIC: "[27924.896523] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP " (check log for details) > PID: 7450 > COMMAND: "bash" > TASK: ffff8800cfbf61c0 [THREAD_INFO: ffff8800cba86000] > CPU: 1 > STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC) [...] One more question. What is the size of crash dump file? Is it almost equal to: <machine_memory_size> - <memory_reserved_for_crash_kernel> Daniel