Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xen, kdump: handle pv domain in paddr_vmcoreinfo_note()

[Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 13:13:00 +0200
Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 12:42:53 -0700 (PDT)
> Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>[...]
> > So, if Petr did relevant tests that is nice. However, then, IMO, this
> > patch begs Petr Tested-by.
> 
> Actually, I tested with this patch applied on top of kernel 4.4 (SLES
> 12 SP2). It matches what traditional Xen had always done, so I am quite
> confident it will work with a later kernel, but to give my Tested-by,
> let me first re-run the test on master, hopefully until today EOB.

It took me much longer than anticipated (I had some trouble setting up
the host again), but I can confirm that the patch works as expected on
top of 4.11-rc5.

Without the patch, makedumpfile in the crash kernel complains:

/proc/vmcore doesn't contain vmcoreinfo.

With the patch applied, dumping still fails later because of an
unrelated bug in makedumpfile, but I was able to extract the kernel
message buffer with "makedumpfile --dump-dmesg". This already confirms
VMCOREINFO presence and usability.

So finally,

Tested-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>

Petr Tesarik