Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH]: kexec: framework and i386

["Kazuo Moriwaka" <moriwaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I update dom0cut script to extract dom0 in both Xen Core and ELF Core format.
With ELF Core, you can use gdb without gdbserver-xen.

typical usage is:
$ ./dom0cut.py -telf -f -dvmcore -odom0core -xxen-syms -vvmlinux-2.6.16
$ gdb vmlinux-2.6.16 dom0core
or
$ ./dom0cut.py -txen -f -dvmcore -odom0core -xxen-syms -vvmlinux-2.6.16
$ gdbserver-xen localhost:9999 --file dom0core
...

To make ELF headers, It use libelf
(http://directory.fsf.org/libs/misc/libelf.html)
and SWIG (http://www.swig.org/).

I attach the patch and libelf wrapper.

Todo:
- SMP support.
- other architecture support.

On 5/10/06, Kazuo Moriwaka <moriwaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'll send a patch for dom0 image extract (from kdump) script.
>
> Update is..
> - get register values in dom0 context from kdump's ELF Core PT_NOTE header.
> - get cr3 register value in context info from vcpu.
> - now you can look vmlinux symbols from gdbserver-xen.
>
> Todo:
> - It support only single processor now.
> - ELF Core output.
>
> On 4/24/06, Kazuo Moriwaka <moriwaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 4/24/06, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > When a panic occurs, Linux kexec jumps into the preloaded
> > > > kdump kernel (if any).  This kernel then reinitiases the
> > > > hardware, using its own device drivers and uses these to
> > > > write out the dump to disk.  ISTR that the dump format is
> > > > currently ELF, although I remember some talk on the Fastboot
> > > > ML about adding some extra headers to make OS debugging easier.
> > >
> > > Is Xen and the dom0 kernel dumped as as separate ELF cores?
> >
> > I'm working on clipping domain image from whole-machine dump for x86_32 now.
> > Now my prototype reads ELF core and write dom0 image.
> >
> > todo:
> > - Output format is not ELF core yet. Xen domain core image
> > format(works with gdbserverxen).
> > - register information is not work well.
>
> --
> Kazuo Moriwaka
--
Kazuo Moriwaka

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