[PATCH v2 0/6] crash: Bundle of fixes for Xen

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Fri Aug 10 15:11:57 EDT 2012



----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> It looks that Xen support for crash have not been maintained
> since 2009. I am trying to fix this. Here it is bundle of fixes:
>   - xen: Always calculate max_cpus value,
>   - xen: Read only crash notes for onlined CPUs,
>   - x86/xen: Read variables from dynamically allocated per_cpu data,
>   - xen: Get idle data from alternative source,
>   - xen: Read data correctly from dynamically allocated console ring, too
>     (fixed in this release),
>   - xen: Add support for 3 level P2M tree (new patch in this release).
> 
> Daniel
> 

Hi Daniel,

The original 5 updates specific to the Xen hypervisor look OK,
but new patch 6/6 is going to take some studying/testing to
alleviate my backwards-compatibility worries.  Can I ask whether
you fully tested it with older 2-level P2M tree kernels? 

Thanks,
  Dave



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