[Crash-utility] crash version 4.0-2.8 is available

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Fri Oct 21 18:59:01 UTC 2005


Thanks to Jun'ichi Nomura of NEC for addressing an annoying issue
with the "mod" command when a registered kernel module name string
does not directly relate to its module object file.  For example,
the "dm_mod" module comes from the "dm-mod.ko" object file, so the
"mod -S" or "mod -s dm_mod" commands would fail to load the debug
data for that module:

  crash> mod -s dm_mod
  mod: cannot find or load object file for dm_mod module
  crash>

Since this inconsistency seems to be always due to there being
underscores in the kernel name string and dashes in the object
filename, Jun'ichi's patch retries all module debug data load
failures after replacing the underscores with dashes, and voila,
it finds the object file:

  crash> mod -s dm_mod
       MODULE       NAME               SIZE  OBJECT FILE
  ffffffffa01a5380  dm_mod            66433  lib/modules/2.6.9-22.2.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko
  crash>

And, as expected, "mod -S" now finds and loads them all.

That is the only change in 4.0-2.8.

Thanks,
  Dave






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