<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <tt></tt> <tt>- Two fixes for "dev -p" command option:</tt> <tt> 1) The head entry of the PCI device list was being skipped.</tt> <tt> 2) For systems with no PCI devices, exit gracefully rather than</tt> <tt> failing the command due to the use of an invalid virtual</tt> <tt> address.</tt> <tt> (rachita@in.ibm.com, anderson@redhat.com)</tt><tt></tt> <tt>- Fix to recognize "linux_banner" symbol type change from 'R'</tt> <tt> to 'r' in 2.6.20-rc2 kernels. Without the patch, the session</tt> <tt> fails during initialization with the error message " WARNING:</tt> <tt> invalid linux_banner pointer: 756e694c", and then "crash: vmlinux</tt> <tt> and vmcore do not match! (vgoyal@in.ibm.com)</tt><tt></tt> <tt>- Fix to recognize "__per_cpu_start" and "__per_cpu_end" symbol</tt> <tt> type change from 'A' to 'D' in relocatable kernels. Without</tt> <tt> the patch, SMP kernels running on uniprocessor systems may fail</tt> <tt> during initialization with the message "crash: cannot resolve</tt> <tt> init_task_union". (sachinp@in.ibm.com)</tt><tt></tt> <tt>- Fix for the xencrash "dumpinfo -t" command to properly cycle</tt> <tt> through the ELF_timeval structures for each cpu.</tt> <tt> (anderson@redhat.com)</tt><tt></tt> <tt>- Fix for x86_64 backtraces that may end prematurely at either a</tt> <tt> stale "schedule" or "schedule_timeout" reference when doing a</tt> <tt> "bt" on an active task in a dumpfile. (anderson@redhat.com)</tt><tt></tt> <tt>- Fix for a possible empty panic message in 2.6 kernels both during</tt> <tt> initialization and when running the "sys" command, because of</tt> <tt> the change of the kernel panic() string from "Kernel panic: " to</tt> <tt> "Kernel panic -- not syncing: ". If the panic message was not</tt> <tt> recognized in another manner, such as by an oops message, by a</tt> <tt> kernel BUG message, or sysrq-generated crash, the "PANIC:" status</tt> <tt> would be empty. (anderson@redhat.com)</tt><tt></tt> <tt>Download from: <A HREF="http://people.redhat.com/anderson">http://people.redhat.com/anderson</A></tt> <tt></tt> </html>