From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56342) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RG5Ca-0001eK-JN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:39:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RG5CZ-0003qO-Ih for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:39:12 -0400 Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:18111) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RG5CZ-0003qJ-8J for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:39:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4E9D3B29.5060207@siemens.com> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:39:05 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20111010090246.GF9408@redhat.com> <4E92BC11.3030508@siemens.com> <4E9D2791.5070207@cn.fujitsu.com> <4E9D3059.7050903@siemens.com> <4E9D31B4.1010000@cn.fujitsu.com> <4E9D3678.3010904@siemens.com> <4E9D3804.5040000@cn.fujitsu.com> <4E9D3847.8040202@siemens.com> <4E9D3965.4090003@cn.fujitsu.com> <4E9D394E.6050907@siemens.com> <20111018083416.GL8872@amd.home.annexia.org> <4E9D3A80.10402@siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <4E9D3A80.10402@siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Richard W.M. Jones" Cc: qemu-devel , Luiz Capitulino On 2011-10-18 10:36, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Crash can decode kernel structures, providing for example process >> listings and debugging into userspace processes. Crash actually >> reuses gdb's code too, so it's kind of a superset. > > Yeah, I see. Could also be solved via gdb scripts, but crash is already > there. [ BTW, crash is for the dead. But having those features in form of gdb scripts would also allow live system analysis. Looks like it's worth obsoleting crash on the long run. ] Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux