[PATCH 0/5] crash: Small bundle of fixes for Xen

Daniel Kiper daniel.kiper at oracle.com
Thu Jul 5 11:29:50 EDT 2012


On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 11:15:29AM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
>
>
> ----- 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 small
> > 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.
> >
> > Daniel
>
> Daniel,
>
> Can you absolutely confirm that these changes are all backwards-compatible?

I have not done tests with older versions of Xen. However,
I made all patches with backward compatibility in mind. Anyway,
If you wish I could do tests with let's say Xen Ver. 3.4
and Xen Linux Kernel Ver. 2.6.18 at least.

Daniel



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