Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Apr 2017 22:49:33 +0200 | From | Daniel Kiper <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xen, kdump: handle pv domain in paddr_vmcoreinfo_note() |
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On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 11:16:22AM +0200, Petr Tesarik wrote: > On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 13:13:00 +0200 > Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 12:42:53 -0700 (PDT) > > Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> wrote: > > > >[...] > > > So, if Petr did relevant tests that is nice. However, then, IMO, this > > > patch begs Petr Tested-by. > > > > Actually, I tested with this patch applied on top of kernel 4.4 (SLES > > 12 SP2). It matches what traditional Xen had always done, so I am quite > > confident it will work with a later kernel, but to give my Tested-by, > > let me first re-run the test on master, hopefully until today EOB. > > It took me much longer than anticipated (I had some trouble setting up > the host again), but I can confirm that the patch works as expected on
No problem. I know how it works.
> top of 4.11-rc5.
Great!
> Without the patch, makedumpfile in the crash kernel complains: > > /proc/vmcore doesn't contain vmcoreinfo.
Though, I would like to ask you to do crash tool tests too. Could you do that?
> With the patch applied, dumping still fails later because of an > unrelated bug in makedumpfile, but I was able to extract the kernel > message buffer with "makedumpfile --dump-dmesg". This already confirms > VMCOREINFO presence and usability.
Is it Xen specific issue or more generic one?
Daniel
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