Re: howto map HDT dumped addresses to AMD64 kernel virtual addresses.

From: Om Narasimhan
Date: Tue Sep 05 2006 - 15:30:53 EST


On 9/5/06, Keith Mannthey <kmannth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 9/5/06, Om Narasimhan <om.turyx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running a kernel (Suse Enterprise 9 with SP3) and it is hanging
> somewhere in the kernel. By hooking up HDT from AMD, I got a the
> assembly dump of the routine which causes the infinite loop. How
> should I map the addresses dumped by HDT in the format SEG:Offset
> (e.g,
> 0033:00000000_00400C18 mov esi,[loc_0000000000501a64h]
> 0033:00000000_00400C1E test esi,esi
> 0033:00000000_00400C20 jz loc_0000000000400c30h
> ...etc)
> to kernel virtual address space?

I don't know about your HDT (never used one) but have you already
tried the regular debug paths (nmi watchdog/sysrq/crashdump/kdb) that
SLES9 has?
No. Thanks. I would try Sysrq and kdb. HDT does not make much sense at
this stage without all those. Thanks for reminding that.
Regards,
Om.
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