Hi Dave, I've reworked patch about ppc "bt" problem discussed in https://www.redhat.com/archives/crash-utility/2012-June/msg00029.html A patch is now getting to work only for ppc targets, and notes are relocatecd in first ppc's "bt", not in initialization-time. And I've tested both "bt" diskdump by makedumpfile and netdump by /proc/vmcore with patched kernel like void crash_save_cpu(struct pt_regs *regs, int cpu) if ((cpu % 2)) return; I was worried about beeing able to catch all of non-contiguous NT_PRSTATUS notes, alternate with invalid odd notes in every process well, so I modified test case this time (that's no problem, everything OK). [After initialization: notes are not relocated yet] crash> help -D | grep notes num_prstatus_notes: 4 notes_buf: 107a3518 notes[0]: 107a3518 notes[1]: 107a3638 notes[2]: 107a3758 notes[3]: 107a3878 [Relocate in first bt(only once) and display correctly] crash> bt PID: 1000 TASK: eb0cf800 CPU: 4 COMMAND: "bash" bt: WARNING: cpu#1: not saved crash_notes bt: WARNING: cpu#3: not saved crash_notes bt: WARNING: cpu#5: not saved crash_notes bt: WARNING: cpu#7: not saved crash_notes R0: 00000001 R1: ea11be60 R2: eb0cf800 R3: 00000063 R4: 00000000 R5: ffffffff R6: c043ba2c R7: 00000000 R8: 00008000 R9: 00000000 R10: 00000000 R11: ea11be70 R12: 28242444 R13: 100b8448 R14: 100b07b8 R15: 100b0894 R16: 00000000 R17: 00000000 R18: 00000000 R19: 1006d270 R20: 00000000 R21: 100f02e0 R22: 00000000 R23: 00000001 R24: c08f1ac8 R25: 00029002 R26: c08f1bac R27: c08d0000 R28: 00000000 R29: c09ada48 R30: 00000063 R31: ea11be60 NIP: c0423378 MSR: 00021002 OR3: c09ada48 CTR: c0423344 LR: c0423d8c XER: 00000000 CCR: 28242444 MQ: 00008000 DAR: 00000000 DSISR: 00800000 Syscall Result: ea11be60 NIP [00000000c0423378] sysrq_handle_crash LR [00000000c0423d8c] __handle_sysrq => PC: c0423378 (sysrq_handle_crash+52) FP: ea11be60 #0 [ea11be60] sysrq_handle_crash at c0423378 #1 [ea11be70] __handle_sysrq at c0423d8c #2 [ea11bea0] write_sysrq_trigger at c0423ed0 #3 [ea11beb0] proc_reg_write at c01a79a4 #4 [ea11bee0] vfs_write at c014ba44 #5 [ea11bf00] sys_write at c014bcd8 #6 [ea11bf40] ret_from_syscall at c0013834 syscall [c00] exception frame: R0: 00000004 R1: bfe54e00 R2: 48027f80 R3: 00000001 R4: 4811d000 R5: 00000002 R6: 00000000 R7: 00000001 R8: 00000000 R9: 00000000 R10: 00000000 R11: 00000200 R12: 28242442 R13: 100b8448 R14: 100b07b8 R15: 100b0894 R16: 00000000 R17: 00000000 R18: 00000000 R19: 1006d270 R20: 00000000 R21: 100f02e0 R22: 1006b4d0 R23: 00000001 R24: 100b0000 R25: 1009b474 R26: bfe54ec8 R27: 00000002 R28: 0fefa400 R29: 4811d000 R30: 0fef9ff4 R31: 00000002 NIP: 0fe61494 MSR: 0002f902 OR3: 00000001 CTR: 0fe06fec LR: 0fe07050 XER: 00000000 CCR: 28242444 MQ: 00000000 DAR: 4811d000 DSISR: 00800000 Syscall Result: 00000000 [notes has been relocated: Counts num_prstatus_notes even if NULL] crash> help -D | grep notes num_prstatus_notes: 8 notes_buf: 107a3518 notes[0]: 107a3518 notes[1]: 0 notes[2]: 107a3638 notes[3]: 0 notes[4]: 107a3758 notes[5]: 0 notes[6]: 107a3878 notes[7]: 0 Thanks, Toshi

(2012/06/23 0:36), Dave Anderson wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > OK, doing it that way looks reasonable, and safely segregated to > PPC only. > > Just two more suggestions -- first, please do me a favor by running > "make warn" prior to posting a patch, and fix these: > > $ make warn > TARGET: X86_64 > CRASH: 6.0.8rc15 > GDB: 7.3.1 > > cc -c -g -DX86_64 -DGDB_7_3_1 build_data.c -Wall -O2 > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -fstack-protector > cc -c -g -DX86_64 -DGDB_7_3_1 ppc.c -Wall -O2 > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -fstack-protector > cc -c -g -DX86_64 -DGDB_7_3_1 netdump.c -Wall -O2 > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -fstack-protector > netdump.c: In function 'get_netdump_regs_ppc': > netdump.c:2603: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 > of 'relocate_nt_prstatus_percpu_ppc' differ in signedness > cc -c -g -DX86_64 -DGDB_7_3_1 diskdump.c -Wall -O2 > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -fstack-protector > diskdump.c:1061: warning: no previous prototype for > ‘relocate_nt_prstatus_percpu_ppc’ > diskdump.c: In function 'get_diskdump_regs_ppc': > diskdump.c:1103: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 > of 'relocate_nt_prstatus_percpu_ppc' differ in signedness > ... Thanks for your checking out. I shuold use unit * for argument 2. > Secondly, since your new relocate_nt_prstatus_percpu_ppc() and > verify_crash_note_in_kernel_ppc() functions are used for both > kdump ELF and compressed kdump formats, and since they are > PPC-specific, can you just move the two functions into ppc.c? > All that should require is to #include elf.h. Make sense. I move them into ppc.c, then function calls in diskdump.c and netdump.c are wrapped with "if defined (PPC)" so that those lines will be invalid when other arch is build (x86_64 build was no problem).