[Crash-utility] crash version 4.0-4.11 is available
Dave Anderson
anderson at redhat.com
Thu Dec 6 16:10:47 UTC 2007
- Fix for task-gathering to handle the 2.6.24 pid_namespace-related
changes to the kernel pid_hash array. Without the patch, the crash
session fails during initialization with the message "crash: cannot
gather a stable task list via pid_hash (500 retries)".
(anderson at redhat.com)
- Fix for "kmem -f <address>" and "kmem <address>" commands on
x86 kernels, which may incorrectly indicate that the address is in
the kernel's free page list. Without this patch, if the address
argument is a physical address over 4GB, or a page struct address
referencing a physical address over 4GB, it is possible that the
address would incorrectly be shown as being in the kernel's free
page list. (anderson at redhat.com)
- Fix for x86 "bt" command for active tasks in Egenera dumpfiles
based upon LKCD version 7. Without the patch, the starting points
for the active task backtraces were erroneous.
(anderson at redhat.com)
- Fix for a potential segmentation violation during crash session
initialization if a task's kernel stack has been completely overrun,
corrupting its thread_info structure at the bottom of the stack.
This could occur running against kernels from 2.6.8 through 2.6.18.
With the patch, the suspect task will be reported during the task
initialization sequence. (anderson at redhat.com)
- Fix for "kmem -S" error message if a slab object is found in both
a per-cpu list and on a slab's global free list. Without the patch,
the object address and cpu number values are flip-flopped in the
error message. (bob.montgomery at hp.com)
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