xen-netback: add reference from xenvif to backend_info to facilitate coredump analysis
authorDongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
Fri, 12 Apr 2019 06:53:24 +0000 (14:53 +0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 12 Apr 2019 17:10:28 +0000 (10:10 -0700)
commit6dc400af216a79c10cb082f25a7337bcbf532045
tree26989f2a1ffae70d912a5f017767bd94066cd117
parent8af9f7291e22d165ea630856da4171a9d5a6ced3
xen-netback: add reference from xenvif to backend_info to facilitate coredump analysis

During coredump analysis, it is not easy to obtain the address of
backend_info in xen-netback.

So far there are two ways to obtain backend_info:

1. Do what xenbus_device_find() does for vmcore to find the xenbus_device
and then derive it from dev_get_drvdata().

2. Extract backend_info from callstack of xenwatch (e.g., netback_remove()
or frontend_changed()).

This patch adds a reference from xenvif to backend_info so that it would be
much more easier to obtain backend_info during coredump analysis.

Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c