I trip over this bug on Linux 3.6 rc1. Crash runs fine on Linux 3.5.
Thanks,
--Mark Tinguely.
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~/xfs # crash System.map vmlinux
crash 6.0.8
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crash: invalid structure member offset: kmem_cache_s_next
FILE: memory.c LINE: 7945 FUNCTION: kmem_cache_init()
[/usr/bin/crash] error trace: 468317 => 49dbb2 => 487f28 => 5083da
5083da: OFFSET_verify+202
487f28: kmem_cache_init+312
49dbb2: vm_init+5794
468317: main_loop+215
~/xfs # cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.6.0-rc1 (root@cxfsxe12) (gcc version 4.3.4
[gcc-4_3-branch revision 152973] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP Fri Aug 10
17:03:36 CDT 2012