Re: [Crash-utility] latest crash-killer in 2.6.17-rc2

Badari Pulavarty wrote: > Dave Anderson wrote: > > > > > changes the pid_hash chain from: > > > > static struct hlist_head *pid_hash[PIDTYPE_MAX]; > > > > to: > > > > static struct hlist_head *pid_hash; > > > > The pid_hash infrastructure is what the crash utility > > uses to gather the set of running tasks during initialization. > > The change above breaks it, and crash will fail with an > > error message stating: > > > > crash: cannot determine pid_hash array dimensions > > > > As the PID handling has changed over the years, there have > > been several task-gathering functions in crash, the latest > > of which is refresh_hlist_task_table(). I don't know whether > > it will be possible to shoe-horn the new scheme to fit this > > current crash function, or whether yet another new one will > > have to be written. If it's the latter, it may take a while... > > > > Well, its not the only one we need to deal with on 2.6.17-rc2 :( > > elm3a242:~/crash-4.0-2.23 # ./crash > crash 4.0-2.23 > Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Red Hat, Inc. > Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation > Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co > Copyright (C) 2005 Fujitsu Limited > Copyright (C) 2005 NEC Corporation > Copyright (C) 1999, 2002 Silicon Graphics, Inc. > Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. > This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, > and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under > certain conditions. Enter "help copying" to see the conditions. > This program has absolutely no warranty. Enter "help warranty" for details. > > GNU gdb 6.1 > Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain > conditions. > Type "show copying" to see the conditions. > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"... > > crash: cannot resolve: "pgdat_list" > Yep, Vivek and I ran into that yesterday -- and I've fixed that issue. And support for the intro of the new pid_hash/pid_link scheme is looking pretty good.