[Crash-utility] crash version 4.0-3.21 is available

[Akio Takebe]

Hi, Dave

>- Introduced support for upstream xensource ELF format dumpfiles,
>  which will replace the current xendump format in xen 3.0.5.  The
>  new xen format uses ELF in a non-standard manner such that memory
>  contents are defined in section headers instead of the traditional
>  manner of using program headers.  Testing has been on paravirtualized
>  x86, x86 PAE, x86_64 and ia64 dumpfiles.  Fully-virtualized dumpfiles
>  have not been tested.  (anderson at redhat.com)
>

I tested vmcore with ELF format "xm dump-core" and crash-4.0-3.21 on IA64.
The result is good. Thank you for your work.


# crash /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.9-22.EL/vmlinux /var/xen/dump/2007-0405-
2138.38-vti.1.core

crash 4.0-3.21
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      KERNEL: /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.9-22.EL/vmlinux
    DUMPFILE: /var/xen/dump/2007-0405-2138.38-vti.1.core
        CPUS: 4
        DATE: Thu Apr  5 12:38:36 2007
      UPTIME: 00:00:19
LOAD AVERAGE: 0.14, 0.03, 0.01
       TASKS: 40
    NODENAME: tiger2
     RELEASE: 2.6.9-22.EL
     VERSION: #1 SMP Mon Sep 19 17:54:55 EDT 2005
     MACHINE: ia64  (1595 Mhz)
      MEMORY: 480.7 MB
       PANIC: ""
         PID: 0
     COMMAND: "swapper"
        TASK: a0000001006c4000  (1 of 4)  [THREAD_INFO: a0000001006c4dc0]
         CPU: 0
       STATE: TASK_RUNNING
     WARNING: panic task not found

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Best Regards,

Akio Takebe