[Crash-utility] [PATCH]fix kmem -s(slab) to support Linux 3.7 and later

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Thu Mar 14 13:42:08 UTC 2013



----- Original Message -----
> Hello Dave,
> 
> When using crash on Linux 3.8, I found kmem -s is not working well.
> After some investigations, I got to know commit
> 3c58346525d82625e68e24f071804c2dc057b6f4 changes the usage of
> kmem_cache.array, nodelists is also stored in it, which caused original
> code failed to work.
> 
> I made some fix, please refer to the attachment.
> 
> Regards
> Qiao Nuohan

Hi Qiao,

Your fix seems safe enough.  I'm testing it now on older versions to
ensure backwards-compatibility.

Also, can you show me what errors you saw without the patch so that I
can put them in the crash.changelog?

Thanks,
  Dave




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