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

[Atsushi Kumagai]

Thanks everyone, I'll merge this patch into v1.6.2

Regards,
Atsushi Kumagai

>On 06/01/2017 09:18 AM, Eric DeVolder wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
>I have validated the 32-bit dump files with this patch. All is good.
>eric
>
>
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