Re: [Crash-utility] xencrash: crash analisys tool for Xen hypervisor
Hello Itsuro,
I have only briefly scanned your patch, and find it very
interesting. I am not at all familiar with the hypervisor
code, but I do have a couple simple questions at this point:
1. Is it necessary to create a separate "xencrash"
binary? Would it be possible to create a single
crash binary that can be used for both vmlinux
and xen-syms sessions?
Sorry about this -- I missed the following two parts of
the Makefile and main.c patches!
+
+xencrash: crash
+ cp -f crash xencrash
+ if (STREQ(pc->program_name, "xencrash"))
+ pc->flags |= XEN_HYPER;
However, given the above, I wonder whether it would be possible
to postpone the setting of the XEN_HYPER flag from the
setup_environment() function until later on in main() when
the command line arguments are parsed? Wouldn't it be possible
to recognize that the xen-syms object file is the hypervisor
binary, and to set the XEN_HYPER flag at that point?
Thanks,
Dave
2. Can you make it work with a live hypervisor system
in the same way the crash works with a live Linux
kernel?
Thanks,
Dave
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