- Tentatively scheduled as the baseline version for the RHEL5.4 crash
utility errata release.
- Implemented a new "bt -g" option, which will display the backtraces
of all threads in the targeted task's thread group. The thread
group leader's backtrace will be displayed first, regardless of
which task was the target of the "bt" command.
(anderson(a)redhat.com)
- Implement support for the kdump "split-dumpfile" format, which can
split /proc/vmcore into multiple dumpfiles as specified by the
"makedumpfile --split" command option. It simply requires that all
of the split dumpfile names be entered on the crash command line.
(tindoh(a)redhat.com)
- Fix for "kmem -i", "kmem -n" and "kmem -p" on x86_64
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
and CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME kernels that have MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS
increased from 40 to 44. Without the patch, erroneous page-related
data could be displayed depending upon the amount of physical memory
contained by the target system.
(anderson(a)redhat.com)
- For the architectures that support it, the "--machdep option=value"
command line option has been modified to allow more than one machine-
dependent argument. (anderson(a)redhat.com)
- The starting backtrace location of active, non-crashing, xen dom0
tasks are not available in kdump dumpfiles, nor is there anything
that can be searched for in their respective stacks. Therefore, for
those those tasks, the "bt" command will indicate: "bt: starting
backtrace locations of the active (non-crashing) xen tasks cannot be
determined: try -t or -T options". Without the patch, the backtrace
would either be empty, or it would show an invalid backtrace starting
at the last location where schedule() had been called.
(anderson(a)redhat.com)
- Fix for potentially empty "bt -t" output, and for "bt -T"
potentially
dumping the text return addresses in the hard or soft IRQ stacks
instead of the process stack. This could occur if the targeted task
was the last task that used the hard or soft IRQ stack (x86 only).
(anderson(a)redhat.com)
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