Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] contrib: add elf2dmp tool

[Viktor Prutyanov]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:22:14 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 29/08/2018 14:41, Viktor Prutyanov wrote:
> > elf2dmp is a converter from ELF dump (produced by
> > 'dump-guest-memory') to Windows MEMORY.DMP format (also know as
> > 'Complete Memory Dump') which can be opened in WinDbg.
> > 
> > This tool can help if VMCoreInfo device/driver is absent in Windows
> > VM and 'dump-guest-memory -w' is not available but dump can be
> > created in ELF format.
> > 
> > elf2dmp differs from other universal converters in method of
> > determining of virtual memory layout. The tool uses register values
> > from QEMU ELF dump file to do it. In particular, it uses
> > KERNEL_GS_BASE value added to dump format in QEMU 3.0.
> > 
> > Even if KERNEL_GS_BASEs are absent in ELF dump file, at least 1
> > vCPU with kernel task can be found quite often and virtual memory
> > layout can be determined.
> > 
> > Viktor Prutyanov (5):
> >   dump: move Windows dump structures definitions
> >   contrib: add elf2dmp tool
> >   contrib/elf2dmp: improve paging root selection
> >   contrib/elf2dmp: add DMP file name as 2nd argument
> >   contrib/elf2dmp: add 1GB and 2MB pages support
> > 
> >  Makefile                      |   5 +
> >  Makefile.objs                 |   1 +
> >  configure                     |   3 +
> >  contrib/elf2dmp/Makefile.objs |   1 +
> >  contrib/elf2dmp/addrspace.c   | 236 +++++++++++++++++
> >  contrib/elf2dmp/addrspace.h   |  44 ++++
> >  contrib/elf2dmp/download.c    |  50 ++++
> >  contrib/elf2dmp/download.h    |  13 +
> >  contrib/elf2dmp/err.h         |  13 +
> >  contrib/elf2dmp/kdbg.h        | 194 ++++++++++++++
> >  contrib/elf2dmp/main.c        | 594
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > contrib/elf2dmp/pdb.c         | 331 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> > contrib/elf2dmp/pdb.h         | 241 +++++++++++++++++
> > contrib/elf2dmp/pe.h          | 121 +++++++++
> > contrib/elf2dmp/qemu_elf.c    | 172 ++++++++++++
> > contrib/elf2dmp/qemu_elf.h    |  51 ++++
> > include/qemu/win_dump_defs.h  | 179 +++++++++++++
> > win_dump.h                    | 166 +----------- 18 files changed,
> > 2253 insertions(+), 162 deletions(-) create mode 100644
> > contrib/elf2dmp/Makefile.objs create mode 100644
> > contrib/elf2dmp/addrspace.c create mode 100644
> > contrib/elf2dmp/addrspace.h create mode 100644
> > contrib/elf2dmp/download.c create mode 100644
> > contrib/elf2dmp/download.h create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/err.h
> >  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/kdbg.h
> >  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/main.c
> >  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/pdb.c
> >  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/pdb.h
> >  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/pe.h
> >  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/qemu_elf.c
> >  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/qemu_elf.h
> >  create mode 100644 include/qemu/win_dump_defs.h
> >   
> 
> Queued, squashing patches 2-5.  Would you like to send a patch for
> MAINTAINERS, adding yourself for elf2dmp?
> 
> Paolo

If I add myself to MAINTAINERS, what I will be expected to do?

Viktor