==> Regarding Re: [Crash-utility] crash version 4.0-2.11 is available; Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com> adds:

>>
>> "kmem_cache_s" got renamed to "kmem_cache" in the latest git :( Time to
>> update crash again .. :(

anderson> Hopefully it's just a name change (again...) without other
anderson> changes that will require a new kmem "version" within crash.

Here's the git log:

Author: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>
Date:   Mon Nov 7 00:58:01 2005 -0800

    [PATCH] mm: rename kmem_cache_s to kmem_cache

    This patch renames struct kmem_cache_s to kmem_cache so we can start using
    it instead of kmem_cache_t typedef.

    Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Sounds like just a name change to me.

-Jeff

  --- 2.6.orig/mm/slab.c
  +++ 2.6/mm/slab.c
  @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ static inline void kmem_list3_init(struc
   * manages a cache.
   */

  -struct kmem_cache_s {
  +struct kmem_cache {
   /* 1) per-cpu data, touched during every alloc/free */
   struct array_cache *array[NR_CPUS];
   unsigned int batchcount;

Phew...