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> I haven't been there at the original creation of this functionality, but > I tend to agree with you. For analyzing the vmcore with gdb or crash, > the alignment doesn't seem to be important, so it was probably ignored. With respect to the crash utility, the p_align field is actually used to differentiate kdump ELF vmcores from the old netdump ELF vmcores. There are a couple subtle differences between the old netdump ELF vmcores and kdump ELF vmcores. Netdump ELF vmcores set the the p_align field to the architecture page size, whereas kdump ELF vmcores have always had a p_align field of zero. Ideally these virsh-dump vmcores would continue to be essentially kdump clones. But if it's changed, then there will need to be an update to the crash utility to work around it. Dave
