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Re: [Xen-devel] Help Debugging Xen Crash

To: Kathy Hadley <Kathy.Hadley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Help Debugging Xen Crash
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:25:50 +0100
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Connect a serial line and collect the hypervisor's debug console output.
You'll probably get a crash dump when the machine reboots itself.

 -- Keir

On 15/06/2010 14:13, "Kathy Hadley" <Kathy.Hadley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Greetings,
>   I am trying to debug a Xen crash and need some help.  When I am attempting
> to use the (relatively) new adjust_global scheduler callback function, the
> machine reboots (this may be due to other changes I have made in the
> hypervisor to modify DornerWorks¹ ARINC 653 scheduler to work with CPU pools).
> I have enabled xend/xenstored tracing, but the log files do not contain
> anything useful.  I have used gdb to trace to the point where the hypercall is
> made from Dom0 to the hypervisor, but do not know how to proceed from here.  I
> have read about using kdb to debug the hypervisor, but I am a bit confused.
> It looks as though kdb (in http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/debuggers.hg) is
> integrated into a particular branch of Xen, which is not kept synchronized
> with the current version of xen-unstable.  Can I use kdb with any version of
> Xen?  If so, how?  What files do I need to download and what should I do to
> build them?  Or does someone have other suggestions?
>  
>   Thank you,
> Kathy Hadley
> DornerWorks, Ltd.
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