[Crash-utility] crash gcore command, version 1.3.0-rc is released

[Wei Shu]

Hi Daisuke,

how about the ARM64 compat mode support? I have sent out the patch before, thanks

Best Regards,
Wei (舒 伟)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: crash-utility-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:crash-utility-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dave Anderson
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 9:35 PM
> To: Discussion list for crash utility usage, maintenance and development
> Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] [ANNOUNCE] crash gcore command, version 1.3.0-rc
> is released
> 
> 
> Hello Daisuke,
> 
> Thanks for the update -- I will post my results later.
> 
> However, I note that you did not make the small ARM64 update that I emailed
> to you last week:
> 
> This should be changed:
> 
>   #ifdef ARM64
>   #define ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE 4096
> 
> to:
> 
>   #ifdef ARM64
>   #define ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE PAGESIZE()
> 
> Please make that change.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Dave
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > This is the release of crash gcore command, version 1.3.0-rc.
> >
> > The version 1.3.0 is going to newly add ARM64 support, and the purpose
> > of this rc version release is for verification by other architecture
> > maintainers. Please give me a verfication result as a reply to this
> > mail.
> >
> > The remaining changes are all bugfixes.
> >
> > ChangeLog:
> >
> >  - Add ARM64 support. In addition to native ARM64 build, like crash
> >    utility, we can build x86_64 executable of crash gcore command for
> >    ARM64 crash dump by make target=ARM64, just like crash utility.
> >    (anderson at redhat.com)
> >
> >  - Fix a bug that registers in NT_PRSTATUS note information is
> >    broken. This had been since v1.2.2 when O(1) note informaiton
> >    collection was added. Without this fix, we can never get reliable
> >    register values for failure analysis.
> >    (weishu at marvell.com)
> >
> >  - Fix a bug that NT_386_IOPERM note information is not collected. So
> >    far, ioperm_get() had always returned 1. As a result, NT_386_IOPERM
> >    note information had never been not included in a generated core
> >    file even if it is available for a given task on a given crash
> >    dump.
> >    (d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com)
> >
> >  - Add new member offset initialization for struct
> >    nsproxy::pid_ns_for_children. In upstream, the following patch
> >    renamed struct nsproxy::pid_ns into struct
> >    nsproxy::pid_ns_for_children.
> >
> >     $ git log -1 c2b1df2e
> >     commit c2b1df2eb42978073ec27c99cc199d20ae48b849
> >     Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
> >     Date:   Thu Aug 22 11:39:16 2013 -0700
> >
> >         Rename nsproxy.pid_ns to nsproxy.pid_ns_for_children
> >
> >         nsproxy.pid_ns is *not* the task's pid namespace.  The name
> > should clarify
> >         that.
> >
> >         This makes it more obvious that setns on a pid namespace is weird -
> -
> >         it won't change the pid namespace shown in procfs.
> >
> >         Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
> >         Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
> >         Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> >
> >    Without this fix, gcore exited abnormally at its initialization
> >    part and so core file is never generated.
> >    (d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com)
> >
> >  - Fix a bug that a wrong way of checking return value of
> >    fopen(). fopen() returns NULL in case of error, but gcore had seen
> >    it as returning a minus integer. As a result, gcore continues
> >    execution after the check even in case of error and then exits
> >    abnormally at the first call of fwrite() with the broken file
> >    pointer gcore failed to open.
> >
> >    From users' viewpoint, we face this bug when trying to overwrite an
> >    existing corefile with more priviledged permission and resulting in
> >    EPERM failure.
> >
> >    (d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com)
> >
> > MD5 CheckSum:
> >
> > $ md5sum ./crash-gcore-command-1.3.0-rc.tar.gz
> > 0b841985c084e790966800edfd1b5d43
> > ./crash-gcore-command-1.3.0-rc.tar.gz
> >
> > --
> > Thanks.
> > HATAYAMA, Daisuke
> >
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