From: Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH]: gcore extension, anonymous union in inode struct
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:50:32 -0400
----- Original Message -----
> From: Per Fransson <per.fransson.ml(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [Crash-utility] [PATCH]: gcore extension, anonymous union in
> inode struct
> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:29:43 +0200
>
> > Hi Crash people,
> >
> > The gcore extension fails on the 3.4 kernel I'm using. It attempts to
> > find the offset of a member within the inode struct, but the member is
> > part of an anonymous union. This patch fixes the problem for me.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Per
>
> Hello Per,
>
> Thanks for reporting that. According to git repository, this was
> changed by the following commit at the v3.1 period.
>
> $ git describe a78ef704a8dd430225955f0709b22d4a6ba21deb
> v3.1-8569-ga78ef70
>
> $ git log -1 a78ef704a8dd430225955f0709b22d4a6ba21deb
> commit a78ef704a8dd430225955f0709b22d4a6ba21deb
> Author: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi(a)suse.cz>
> Date: Fri Oct 28 14:13:30 2011 +0200
>
> vfs: protect i_nlink
>
> Prevent direct modification of i_nlink by making it const and adding a
> non-const __i_nlink alias.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi(a)suse.cz>
> Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima(a)jp.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch(a)lst.de>
>
> The patch appears fine to me so I'll apply it.
>
> Thanks.
> HATAYAMA, Daisuke
Hi Daisuke,
Will you be updating the crash-gcore-command tar.gz package?
Hello Dave,
I have another gcore test plan soon. I'm going to update this change
together with it. Please wait for a few weeks.
Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke