[Crash-utility] cannot determine idle task and cannot resolve init_task_union on x86

[David Anderson]

Steve Dickson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm getting the following errors using crash 4.0-2.22 on a
> 2.6.16-1.2087_FC5.smp kernel.
>
> crash: cannot determine idle task addresses from init_tasks[] or 
> runqueues[]
>
> crash: cannot resolve "init_task_union"
>
> Now I just read the threads about this same error on
> ppc64 as well as read the crash version 4.0-2.21 is available
> release notes, but this is happening on x86 UP kernel
> (although I'm using an SMP kernel) and with the latest
> crash version 4.0-2.22
>
> any ideas?
>
> steved.
>
> Disclaimer: I don't follow this mailing list as close as I probably
> should so I'll pre-apologize is this has already been discussed
> in a previous thread... If so please simply send the pointer...
>
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In this particular kernel, does the runqueue data structure now contain
a new "cpu" member?  (It's also described in the new crash.TODO file
on my people site).

If so, try adding the attached patch to kernel.c.

Dave


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