[Crash-utility] [ANNOUNCE] crash version 5.0.3 is available
- Fix for running against 2.6.34 and later kernels to recognize and
handle changes in the kernel's per-cpu data symbol naming, which
no longer prefixes "per_cpu__" to declared per-cpu symbol names.
Without the patch, an x86_64 crash session fails completely during
initialization with the error message "crash: cannot determine idle
task addresses from init_tasks[] or runqueues[]", followed by "crash:
cannot resolve init_task_union"; on architectures such as the x86,
the session comes up to the "crash>" prompt, but displays warning
messages such as "WARNING: duplicate idle tasks?", the "swapper"
tasks are not found, and any command accessing per-cpu data fails.
(anderson(a)redhat.com)
- Fix for "swap" and "kmem -i" commands on 2.6.29 or later,
big-endian,
ppc64 kernels, where the swap_info_struct.flags member was changed
from an int to a long. Without the patch, the "swap" command does
not display any swap data, and the "kmem -i" command indicates that
there is no swap memory used or available.
(anderson(a)redhat.com)
- Fix for the "vm" and "ps" command's task RSS value on 2.6.34 or
later
kernels. Without the patch, the RSS value would always show "0k" or
"0" respectively, due to the replacement of the mm_struct._anon_rss
and mm_struct._file_rss counters with the mm_struct.rss_stat member.
(anderson(a)redhat.com)
- Fixed "possible aternatives" spelling typo used in informational
messages when an incorrect/unknown symbol name is used in "rd",
"dis", "sym" and "struct" commands.
(anderson(a)redhat.com)
- Fix for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM kernels that are not configured with
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME. Without the patch, "kmem -n" would show
faulty/missing sparsemem memmap data, and as a result, commands
requiring verification of page structure addresses contained within
the "missing" memmap sections would fail or show questionable data.
(nishimura(a)mxp.nes.nec.co.jp, anderson(a)redhat.com)
- Change the output of the "kmem -[cC]" options to indicate that they
are not supported when that is relevant. "kmem -c" has been obsolete
since 2.6.17, and "kmem -C" has been obsolete in all 2.6 era kernels.
(anderson(a)redhat.com)
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