Re: [Crash-utility] crash: cannot resolve "init_task_union"

Dave Anderson wrote: Dave , thanks for the hint. Yes these symbols are of type D on PPC64 machine. Infact after checking on latest RHEL5 kernels [ with relocatable support ] this is the case with even other archs also. [root@llm19 boot]# cat System.map-2.6.18-1.2767.el5 | grep __per_cpu_ c065dd2c r __ksymtab___per_cpu_offset c0663c64 r __kcrctab___per_cpu_offset c0666c12 r __kstrtab___per_cpu_offset c06e6b80 D __per_cpu_offset c077d100 D __per_cpu_start c0781de4 D __per_cpu_end [root@llm19 boot]# uname -i i386 [root@llm19 boot]# So this probably can be a generic problem affecting other arch's also. Thanks for the help. Attached here is a patch to fix this problem. Let me know if it's ok. Thanks -Sachin * On a UP machine running SMP kernel, crash fails while reading idle tasks * from per cpu data. Signed-off-by : Sachin Sant <sachinp(a)in.ibm.com&gt; ---