[Crash-utility] crash version 4.0-3.4 is available

[Dave Anderson]

-  Implemented support for x86_64 and ia64 compressed kdump dumpfiles
   created by the makedumpfile command, which need to pass their
   respective physical address load locations in a kdump-specific
   dumpfile sub-header.  (oomichi at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp)

-  Fix for the "timer" command on 2.6.17 and later kernels.  Without this
   patch, the command would spew out error messages of the sort:

     timer: invalid list entry: 0
     timer: ignoring faulty timer list at index 0 of timer array

   This was due to the kernel's tvec_bases data structures being moved
   out of the per-cpu memory regions, and replaced with just per-cpu
   pointers to the data.  (anderson at redhat.com)

-  Fix for ia64 machines whose kernel's text and static data region 5
   segment is not loaded at physical address 64MB; live systems get
   the physical load address from /proc/iomem, while kdump dumpfiles
   contain the load address in the ELF header.  Without this patch,
   the crash session would fail during initialization with a "crash:
   invalid kernel virtual address: [address] type: xtime" error message.
   The physical address may still be forcibly set using the command line
   option "--machdep phys_start=[address]"  (anderson at redhat.com)

-  When using the "--machdep phys_start=[address]" on an ia64 machine,
   an irrelevant error message indicating: "WARNING: invalid vm= option"
   would be displayed.  (anderson at redhat.com)

-  Updated the ppc64 page size determination from always using
   getpagesize() on the host machine to symbolically determining
   whether 64k page sizes are in use.  (sachinp at in.ibm.com)

-  Enhancement of the "sig" command to display the lists of both private
   and/or shared queued signals, if any.  (olivier.daudel at u-paris10.fr)

-  Adapted "mount [-n pid|task]" patch, which displays the mounted
   filesystems with respect to the namespace of a given pid or task.
   (olivier.daudel at u-paris10.fr)

-  Fix for running crash without parameters on a live system that does
   not have a "/usr/src" directory, which would result in a segmentation
   violation.  (holzheu at de.ibm.com)

-  The /proc/version check against vmlinux "strings" output needed to be
   made aware that some other character may be adjacent to the "L" in the
   "Linux version..." string.  This would lead to erroneous "vmlinux and
   /proc/version do not match!" errors during initialization.
   (holzheu at de.ibm.com)

-  gdb-6.1.patch update for gdb-6.1/sim/ppc/debug.c to compile in SUSE
   build environment.  (olh at suse.de)
   (9/19/06)


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