Download from: http://people.redhat.com/anderson Changelog: - Fix to allow the recently-added "mod -g" and "mod -r" options to be used together. Without the patch, if both options were used, the command would fail with a "mod: invalid option" error complaining about one or the other option letter. (bob.montgomery(a)hp.com) - Additional update for 3.1.x and later kernels configured with CONFIG_SLAB, which have replaced the kmem_cache.nodelists[] array with a pointer to an outside array. Without the patch, depending upon a system's cpu configuration and actual cpu count, the crash session may display "crash: unable to initialize kmem slab cache subsystem" during invocation, or if it does succeed, "kmem -s" may generate a segmentation violation. (bob.montgomery(a)hp.com, anderson(a)redhat.com) - Document the "crash [-h|--help] all" option in the crash.8 man page and in the "crash [-h|--help]" output. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Fix the S390/S390X-specific "s390dbf" command's "hex_ascii" debug data printing routine to prevent the display of non-ASCII characters. (holzheu(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com) - Fix for ARM stack unwinding on 3.2 and later kernels due to commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/de66a979012dbc66b1ec0125795a3f79ee667b8a (rabin(a)rab.in) - Implemented a new "search -x <count>" option that displays the memory contents before and after any found search target. The before and after memory context will consist of "count" memory items of the same size as the searched-for value. This option is not applicable with the -c option. (zhangyanfei(a)cn.fujitsu.com) - Fix for the x86_64 Xen hypervisor "bt" command. Without the patch, the contents of the RDX register in exception frames incorrectly shows the contents of the RCX register. (s.ikarashi(a)jp.fujitsu.com) - Implementation of a platform-based vmalloc address translation scheme for the 32-bit PPC architecture, introducing suppport for the PPC44X platform while maintaining the current default platform. Related to that, the PTE translation function used by "vtop" properly handles platforms that use 64-bit PTEs, and the "mach" command displays the kernel's "powerpc_base_platform" name string. (suzuki(a)in.ibm.com) - Fix for the usage of native gdb commands where the command output is redirected to a pipe and then redirected to a file. Without the patch, a command construct such as: crash> gdb-command | shell-command > output-file would cause the embedded gdb module to fail with the error message "gdb: gdb request failed: gdb-command | shell-command". (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Fix to prevent a crash session that is run over a network connection that is killed/removed from going into 100% cpu-time loop. The fix that went into crash-5.0.2 to handle the change in behavior of the built-in readline() library call does not suffice in cases where readline() never gets a chance to be called. Accordingly, the crash session is now initialized with a PR_SET_PDEATHSIG prctl setting, which will cleanly kill itself upon its parent's death. (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Fix for the support of PPC64 compressed kdumps, a regression that was introduced in crash-6.0.3 when support for 32-bit PPC compressed kdumps was implemented. Without the patch, the crash session fails to initialize, showing this warning message: WARNING: machine type mismatch: crash utility: PPC64 vmcore: PPC followed by the error: "crash: vmcore: not a supported file format". (anderson(a)redhat.com) - Fix for the x86_64 "bt" command to prevent the possible skipping of the stack frame just above an exception frame that indicates "[exception RIP: unknown or invalid address]". This highly-unlikely event could occur if the kernel jumps to a bogus text location and attempts to execute it, or if the exception occurs in vmalloc space that was allocated with module_alloc() by a systemtap kprobe-handler, and therefore has no symbolic reference. (anderson(a)redhat.com)