linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Export offsets of VMCS fields as note information for kdump

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Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:08:00 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com, mtosatti@...hat.com,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, luto@....edu, joerg.roedel@....com,
	dzickus@...hat.com, paul.gortmaker@...driver.com, gregkh@...e.de,
	ludwig.nussel@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Export offsets of VMCS fields as note information
 for kdump

On 04/19/2012 03:01 PM, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
> >> It would be not helpful for the qemu crash case you are concerned
> >> about. We want to use the guest state data to look into guest
> >> machine's image in the crasshed qemu.
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
>
> It seems natural to check the situation from guest machine's side when
> qemu crashs. Suppose a service is running on the guest machine, and
> then the qemu crash. Then, we may need to know the details of the
> progress of the service if it's important. What has been successfully
> done, and what has not yet.

How can a service on the guest be related to a qemu crash?  And how
would guest registers help?

You can extract the list of running processes from a qemu crash dump
without looking at guest registers.  And most vcpus are running
asynchronously to qemu, so their register contents is irrelevant (if a
vcpu is running synchronously with qemu - it just exited to qemu and is
waiting for a response - then you'd see the details in qemu's call stack).

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