Hi,
You'd better use max_memkb if you don't make p2m table(like the .xen_pfn).
e.g.
"info.max_memkb >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10)"
>max_pfn = nr_pages, or would they be different for some reason? I'm
>planning on adding a dump-physical tool, and I'll post the code to xen-devel
>once I get it working.
Great. It will be useful. Please CC to me at posting it into xen-devel ML. ;)
Best Regards,
Akio Takebe
>Akio,
>
>Thanks for the reply. How would I obtain max_pfn? In
>xc_domain_dumpcore_via_callback, the code pulls nr_pages from the xc_dominfo
>struct and uses this value as the number of pfns for the domain. Would
>max_pfn = nr_pages, or would they be different for some reason? I'm
>planning on adding a dump-physical tool, and I'll post the code to xen-devel
>once I get it working.
>
>-Ryan
>
>
>
>On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi, Ryan
>>
>> Will you try to make a convert tools (from raw memory dump to
>> Windows fomat dump)? If so, please post it to xen-devel ML.
>>
>> You can see docs/misc/dump-core-format.txt.
>> ".xen_pages" section is raw memory,
>> and .xen_p2m or .xen_pfn sections are used
>> for looking for a memory address we want to see.
>>
>> You can see them with readelf -x option.
>>
>> If you want to make a new tools to get a straight dump of physical memory,
>> it would just do xc_map_foreign_range() from 0 to max_pfn.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Akio Takebe
>>
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >This may be more of a developer question. If so, please let me know, and
>> I
>> >will ask it there instead. I am running Xen 3.1 with a Windows XP HVM,
>> and
>> >I want to get a straight dump of physical memory. The dump-core command
>> >adds a lot of ELF cruft, so I commented out the ELF related portions of
>> >xc_domain_dumpcore_via_callback. However, when I run dump-core, I am
>> still
>> >getting quite a few more pages in my dump file than I should (nearly 10MB
>> >worth). Has anyone else attempted to do this, or have any idea of what
>> >might be the issue? I can understand the utility of having the dump file
>> >conform to ELF format, but it's also useful to get just the raw memory
>> since
>> >there are tools out there that can take a Windows physical dump and
>> analyze
>> >it.
>> >
>> >Thanks for the help,
>> >-Ryan
>> >
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