Re: [Fastboot] Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-29 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Mark Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The Xen guys idea of memory hotplug is another matter it sounds > > like the want to page an OS with memory hotplug which is just > > plain silly, and also unimplemented so I will cross that bridge > > when I come to it. > > The idea isn't to page t

Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-23 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 13:26 +0900, Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 18:20 +0530, vivek goyal wrote: > > > Core image ELF headers are prepared before crash and stored at a safe > > > place in memory. These headers

Re: [Fastboot] Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-23 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all. > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 18:20 +0530, vivek goyal wrote: > > Core image ELF headers are prepared before crash and stored at a safe > > place in memory. These headers are retrieved over a kexec boot and final > > elf core image is pr

Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-23 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 13:26 +0900, Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao wrote: > Hi all. > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 18:20 +0530, vivek goyal wrote: > > Core image ELF headers are prepared before crash and stored at a safe > > place in memory. These headers are retrieved over a kexec boot and final > > elf cor

Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-22 Thread Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
Hi all. On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 18:20 +0530, vivek goyal wrote: > Core image ELF headers are prepared before crash and stored at a safe > place in memory. These headers are retrieved over a kexec boot and final > elf core image is prepared for analysis. Regarding the preparation of the ELF headers

Re: [Fastboot] Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-14 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 23:56 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I want to fill the virtual addresses of linearly mapped region. That is > > physical addresses from 0 to MAXMEM (896 MB) are mapped by kernel at > > virtual addresses PAGE_OFFSET to (PAGE_OF

Re: [Fastboot] Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-10 Thread Itsuro Oda
Hi, Using ELF format to construct dump information (registers, physical adress range, and physical memory etc.) is OK. It's not bad idea. But it is not necessary to indend to use a particular analysis tool. Do simple. Thanks. -- Itsuro ODA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: [Fastboot] Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Dipankar Sarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:17:49AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Beyond that I prefer a little command line tool that will do the > > ELF64 to ELF32 conversion and possibly add in the kva mapping to > > make the core dump usable with gdb. Doing

Re: [Fastboot] Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to fill the virtual addresses of linearly mapped region. That is > physical addresses from 0 to MAXMEM (896 MB) are mapped by kernel at > virtual addresses PAGE_OFFSET to (PAGE_OFFSET + MAXMEM). Values of > PAGE_OFFSET and MAXMEM are already known a

Re: [Fastboot] Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-09 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 07:17 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:00 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > That sounds good. But we loose the advantage of doing limited debugging > > with gdb. Crash (or other analysis tools) will st

Re: [Fastboot] Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-09 Thread Dipankar Sarma
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:17:49AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:00 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > > This also requires, setting the kernel virtual addresses while preparing > > the headers. KVA for linearly mapped

Re: [Fastboot] Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:00 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > That sounds good. But we loose the advantage of doing limited debugging > with gdb. Crash (or other analysis tools) will still take considerable > amount of time before before they are fully re

Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-08 Thread Itsuro Oda
Hi, > Now the issue is, on i386, whether to prepare core headers in ELF32 or > ELF64 format. gdb can not analyze ELF64 core image for i386 system. I > don't know about "crash". Can "crash" support ELF64 core image file for > i386 system? Of course, It must be ELF64. It is important to include al

Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-08 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:00 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > vivek goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Kdump (A kexec based crash dumping mechanism) is going to export the > > kernel core image in ELF format. ELF was chosen as a format, keeping in > > mind that gdb can be used f

Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-08 Thread Dave Anderson
"Eric W. Biederman" wrote: > Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > vivek goyal wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Kdump (A kexec based crash dumping mechanism) is going to export the > > > kernel core image in ELF format. ELF was chosen as a format, keeping in > > > mind that gdb can be us

Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > vivek goyal wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Kdump (A kexec based crash dumping mechanism) is going to export the > > kernel core image in ELF format. ELF was chosen as a format, keeping in > > mind that gdb can be used for limited debugging and "Crash" can be

Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
vivek goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Kdump (A kexec based crash dumping mechanism) is going to export the > kernel core image in ELF format. ELF was chosen as a format, keeping in > mind that gdb can be used for limited debugging and "Crash" can be used > for advanced debugging. Whe

Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-08 Thread Dave Anderson
vivek goyal wrote: > Hi, > > Kdump (A kexec based crash dumping mechanism) is going to export the > kernel core image in ELF format. ELF was chosen as a format, keeping in > mind that gdb can be used for limited debugging and "Crash" can be used > for advanced debugging. > > Core image ELF headers