Thanks for the mail. It helped a lot.
This is what I did:
I installed the latest version of Crash.
The parameters are as assigned:
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x400000
So now I ran the command as
crash --readnow --reloc=12m /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.14-main/vmlinux /var/crash/2009-08-08-23:32/vmcore
and got the output properly.
Thanks once again.
Regards,
Mani
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Dave Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alright -- before even talking about the "xtime" read error above --
----- "Mani" <mani2885@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to analyse the dump created by the kdump utility. This is what I did
> I took 2.6.25.14 vanilla version of kernel and made two copies of the
> kernel named vmlinuz-2.6.25.14-main (Production kernel) and
> vmlinuz-2.6.25.14-kdump (Crash kernel) by following the procedure
> mentioned in the following website
> http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kdump.html
>
> When I run crash utility using the following command
> crash /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.14-main/vmlinux /var/crash/2009-08-08-23:32/vmcore
>
> I get the following error
>
> crash /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.14-main/vmlinux /var/crash/2009-08-08-23:32/vmcore
>
> crash 4.0-6.0.5
> Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 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.
>
> GNU gdb 6.1
> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB 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.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...
>
> crash: read error: kernel virtual address: c1399f10 type: "xtime"
>
>
> I checked for the error and found this link which mentions few
> work-around/fixes for the issue with reading of /dev/mem
> http://www.mail-archive.com/crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx/msg01553.html
you've gone off into the weeds...
The CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM issue only applies to analyzing the *live* system
with the crash utility, so it's completely irrelevant to your attempt
to analyze a kdump vmcore.
And with respect to CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM, you want to *avoid* building
your kernel with it if you want to look at the live system with crash.
If you *add* CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM, then you have to work around its
disabling of the usage of /dev/mem. One of the ways to do that is
to try the kretprobe hack. Other than that, you'd have to port the
Red Hat "/dev/crash" driver to your kernel for live system analysis.
So -- don't do this:
and if you don't build your kernel with CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM to begin with,
> I tried adding CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM to the .config file (This
> parameter was not already present in the config file)
> I got the following error while compiling the kernel
>
> scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/x86/Kconfig
> .config:3869:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol STRICT_DEVMEM
>
> I tried to create the kretprobe module, it works fine for do_fork()
> but when I give devmem_is_allowed() as the functioin name I get the
> following error
then there's no need to do this:
In any case, I don't know why the insmod is failing unless you're trying to
> [root@buzzsaw kprobes]# insmod kretprobe_devmem.ko
> insmod: error inserting 'kretprobe_devmem.ko': -1 Operation not
> permitted
do it as a non-root user.
Getting back to the original "xtime" read error issue, I don't
> I am new to the area of kernel debugging. Please let me know how I can
> solve this issue. Thanks
know what's causing it off-hand. Here's what I can suggest:
(1) Update your version of the crash utility. 4.0-8.11 is available
on the upstream site at http://people.redhat.com/anderson. The
easiest way to go is to take the tar.gz file there, un-tar it, go
into the resultant directory, and type "make". The crash binary
will be built into that top-level directory.
(2) Indicate what your kernel's CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN
config options are equal to. It's possible that you may be running into
http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html#4_0_4_5
(3) If that version does not work, then post the output of
"crash -d7 your-vmlinux your-vmcore", and we can go from there.
Thanks,
Dave
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