<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <tt></tt> <tt>changes the pid_hash chain from:</tt><tt></tt> <tt> static struct hlist_head *pid_hash[PIDTYPE_MAX];</tt><tt></tt> <tt>to:</tt><tt></tt> <tt> static struct hlist_head *pid_hash;</tt><tt></tt> <tt>The pid_hash infrastructure is what the crash utility</tt> <tt>uses to gather the set of running tasks during initialization.</tt> <tt>The change above breaks it, and crash will fail with an</tt> <tt>error message stating:</tt><tt></tt> <tt> crash: cannot determine pid_hash array dimensions</tt><tt></tt> <tt>As the PID handling has changed over the years, there have</tt> <tt>been several task-gathering functions in crash, the latest</tt> <tt>of which is refresh_hlist_task_table(). I don't know whether</tt> <tt>it will be possible to shoe-horn the new scheme to fit this</tt> <tt>current crash function, or whether yet another new one will</tt> <tt>have to be written. If it's the latter, it may take a while...</tt><tt></tt> <tt>Dave</tt> <tt></tt> <tt></tt> <tt></tt> </html>