Cai Quan bumped into another problem when running against the xen hypervisor,
where entering the "set" command alone with no arguments generates a SIGSEGV.
I also note that "set -c #" and "set -p" options make no sense
either:
# crash --xen_phys_start 3ee00000 xen-syms-2.6.18-92.el5 vmcore
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KERNEL: xen-syms-2.6.18-92.el5
DEBUGINFO: ./xen-syms-2.6.18-92.el5.debug
DUMPFILE: vmcore
CPUS: 2
DOMAINS: 4
UPTIME: 00:34:18
MACHINE: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz (3400 Mhz)
MEMORY: 1 GB
PCPU-ID: 1
PCPU: ffff83003f05ff28
VCPU-ID: 1
VCPU: ffff83003eef6080 (VCPU_RUNNING)
DOMAIN-ID: 0
DOMAIN: ffff83003eef8080 (DOMAIN_RUNNING)
STATE: CRASH
crash> set -c 0
set: invalid cpu number: system has only 0 cpu
crash> set -p
set: no panic task found!
crash> set
Segmentation fault
#
Admittedly it's a nonsensical usages of "set", since there's no concept
of
a PID "context" in the hypervisor.
The attached patch changes the behavior to:
crash> set -c 0
set: -c option not supported on this architecture or kernel
crash> set -p
set: -p option not supported on this architecture or kernel
crash> set
set: requires an option with the Xen hypervisor
crash>
Itsura, are you OK with the attached patch?
Thanks,
Dave