On 26.01.2024 21:54, Andrew Cooper wrote: > In 13y of working on Xen, I've never seen seen it used. The implementation > was introduced (commit b69f92f3012e, Jul 28 2004) with known issues such as: > > /* Resuming after we've stopped used to work, but more through luck > than any actual intention. It doesn't at the moment. */
As mentioned elsewhere, this alone might constitute a valid use of gdb. Hence I'm a little hesitant here, but given no indication of even this narrow use case having been employed by anyone at any time ... > which appear to have gone unfixed for the 20 years since. > > Nowadays there are more robust ways of inspecting crashed state, such as a > kexec crash kernel, or running Xen in a VM. > > This will allow us to clean up some hooks around the codebase which are > proving awkward for other tasks. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]> Jan
