Intel EP80579 User Manual

Intel

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 EP80579 Software for Security Applications on Intel

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 QuickAssist Technology

August 2009

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Order Number: 320183-004US

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The Data Dump feature is not supported in the current software release.

Many of the software components in the Intel

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 EP80579 Integrated Processor maintain 

a certain amount of state information — debug counters, state variables, and so on — 

to help understand the current state of that software, and thereby debug or 

troubleshoot an application. This data is in addition to statistics maintained as part of 

the application (for example, counters required to support Management Information 

Bases, or MIBs). Data dump is a mechanism to retrieve these debug data structures. 

Data dump provides a simple API with which a customer application can request the 

internal data structures and other information associated with the internal software. On 

receiving such a request for data dump information, the acceleration software gathers 

and provides necessary data to understand the internal state of the software.

On discovering an issue, the end-user should use this facility to dump the log and 

forward it to the Intel TME for further analysis of the problem.