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2012-06-04introduce a new monitor command 'dump-guest-memory' to dump guest's memoryWen Congyang
The command's usage: dump-guest-memory [-p] protocol [begin] [length] The supported protocol can be file or fd: 1. file: the protocol starts with "file:", and the following string is the file's path. 2. fd: the protocol starts with "fd:", and the following string is the fd's name. Note: 1. If you want to use gdb to process the core, please specify -p option. The reason why the -p option is not default is: a. guest machine in a catastrophic state can have corrupted memory, which we cannot trust. b. The guest machine can be in read-mode even if paging is enabled. For example: the guest machine uses ACPI to sleep, and ACPI sleep state goes in real-mode. 2. If you don't want to dump all guest's memory, please specify the start physical address and the length. Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2012-06-04Add API to get memory mapping without do pagingWen Congyang
crash does not need the virtual address and physical address mapping, and the mapping does not include the memory that is not referenced by the page table. crash does not use the virtual address, so we can create the mapping for all physical memory(virtual address is always 0). This patch provides a API to do this thing, and it will be used in the following patch. Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2012-06-04Add API to get memory mappingWen Congyang
Add API to get all virtual address and physical address mapping. If the guest doesn't use paging, the virtual address is equal to the phyical address. The virtual address and physical address mapping is for gdb's user, and it does not include the memory that is not referenced by the page table. So if you want to use crash to anaylze the vmcore, please do not specify -p option. the reason why the -p option is not default explicitly: guest machine in a catastrophic state can have corrupted memory, which we cannot trust. Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2012-06-04Add API to create memory mapping listWen Congyang
The memory mapping list stores virtual address and physical address mapping. The virtual address and physical address are contiguous in the mapping. The folloing patch will use this information to create PT_LOAD in the vmcore. Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>