> 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"

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.