Re: problems running crash on recent rawhide live kernels

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Jeff Layton wrote:
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:55:08 -0500
Dave Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> Jeff Layton wrote:
> > Relevant packages:
> >
> >     kernel-2.6.24-0.62.rc3.git5.fc9.x86_64
> >     kernel-debuginfo-2.6.24-0.62.rc3.git5.fc9.x86_64
> >     crash-4.0-4.10.x86_64
> >
> > ... the host is a FV xen guest (but that shouldn't matter, should
> > it?).

To get crash version 4.0-4.11 to run against that particular
dumpfile, it needs to know the kernel's "phys_base" relocation
value.  And I don't know how (or if it's even possible) to get
it from a fully-virtualized Xen guest dumpfile.  However, if
you run crash on the live on the kernel that panicked, you can
determine it.  So running live on kernel-2.6.24-0.62.rc3.git5.fc9
I see:

  crash> help -m | grep phys_base
                  phys_base: ffffffffff200000
  crash>

...which in turn can be used as a command line argument for the
xendump dumpfile from that kernel.  So taking the sample dumpfile
you gave me:

# crash --machdep phys_base=0xffffffffff200000 vmlinux
vmcore-rawhide.xmdump

crash 4.0-4.11
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007  Red Hat, Inc.
Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006  IBM Corporation
Copyright (C) 1999-2006  Hewlett-Packard Co
Copyright (C) 2005, 2006  Fujitsu Limited
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007  VA Linux Systems Japan K.K.
Copyright (C) 2005  NEC Corporation
Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007  Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002  Mission Critical Linux, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public
License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of
it under certain conditions.  Enter "help copying" to see the
conditions. This program has absolutely no warranty.  Enter "help
warranty" for details.

NOTE: setting phys_base to: 0xffffffffff200000

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      KERNEL: vmlinux
    DUMPFILE: vmcore-rawhide.xmdump
        CPUS: 1
        DATE: Tue Dec  4 15:41:08 2007
      UPTIME: 06:10:51
LOAD AVERAGE: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
       TASKS: 74
    NODENAME: dhcp231-229.rdu.redhat.com
     RELEASE: 2.6.24-0.62.rc3.git5.fc9
     VERSION: #1 SMP Sat Dec 1 13:59:08 EST 2007
     MACHINE: x86_64  (3458 Mhz)
      MEMORY: 511.6 MB
       PANIC: "SysRq : Trigger a crashdump"
         PID: 0
     COMMAND: "swapper"
        TASK: ffffffff813a1780  [THREAD_INFO: ffffffff81496000]
         CPU: 0
       STATE: TASK_RUNNING (ACTIVE)

crash>

Pain in the ass.  But I don't know any better way.

Dave




Sorry for the delayed response. Did you need me to get that info from
my xen guest so you could use that coredump, or do you have it
covered? Thanks for fixing up crash, BTW...


No, thanks, I have that dumpfile stashed aside.

The problem is that I don't see how the physical base address
can be calculated with just the vmcore and vmlinux.  When it's
running live, the physical base address can be calculated using
/proc/iomem.  So I downloaded that kernel, ran it live, and that's
where I got the phys_base value of 0xffffffffff200000, which BTW,
is the first kernel in which I've ever seen it as a negative number.

Dave


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