Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 05/16 v8] Add API to get memory mapping

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2012-03-09 11:05, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> If crash can work both with and without paging, it should be default
>>> *on* to avoid writing cores that can later on only be analyzed with that
>>> tool. Still not sure, though, if that changes the requirement on what
>>> memory regions should be written in that mode.
>>
>> If this logic is not remvoed, crash can work both with and without paging.
>> But the default value is 'off' now, because the option is '-p'.
> 
> And this would be unfortunate if you do not want to use crash for
> analyzing (I'm working on gdb python scripts which will make gdb - one
> day - at least as powerful as crash). If paging mode has the same
> information that non-paging mode has, I would even suggest to drop it.

Err, with "it" = "non-paging mode".

Jan

-- 
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux