Re: [Crash-utility] [help]crash can't anaylyse xen guest paravirtulized linux vmcore

----- Original Message ----- OK, so you're saying that it's only an issue with SLES paravirtualized kernels? I compared the output of "crash -d8" output using a 2.6.18-152.el5xen kernel (fully virtualized with the old Xen patch), and the sequence is pretty much identical, other than the .xen_p2m and .xen_pages Elf64_Shdr's are in a different order in the dumpfile. But that shouldn't make a difference, because crash doesn't expect them in any particular order. So again, the only thing I can see is that the page that contains the "max_pfn" symbol is full of zeroes -- which is obviously wrong -- and then while walking the page tables to find the page containing the "phys_to_machine_mapping" symbol, it finds the page table that should contain a PTE that points to the page containing it, but the PTE entry is zero. Although other PTEs in the page table page do contain legitimate PTEs. The only thing I can think of is that the vmlinux file that you're using doesn't match the dumpfile, i.e., the "max_pfn" and "phys_to_machine_mapping" symbols from the vmlinux file are not the same as the kernel represented by the dumpfile? Dave