makedumpfile PATCH] Fix the use of Xen physical and machine addresses

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On 05/31/2017 04:07 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:28:15PM +0200, Petr Tesarik wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 May 2017 14:30:43 -0500
>> Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Testing is underway. Generally working but I do have a couple of fails
>>> I'm looking into:
>>>
>>>   > FAIL xen-4.1.2-rc3-pre_domU-pv_xl_linux-2.6.39-x86_64.tar.bz2
>>                              ^^^^^^^
>>
>> Is this a PV DomU xc_core style dump? If so, then it has never been
>> supported by makedumpfile, because the file format is very different,
>> with no program headers, but a special section called ".xen_pages". In
>> fact, the file format itself does not cover this type of dump.
> 
> Ahhh... IIRC, you are right. Thanks for pointing this out. Eric, please
> double check it and if PV __GUESTS__ are not supported by makedumpfile
> skip tests for them. Just test dom0 and Xen hypervisor stuff.

I concur, this dump format is not supported by makedumpfile.

I'm still working on validating 32-bit dump files.

eric




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