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

HATAYAMA Daisuke d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com
Thu Oct 16 00:39:48 UTC 2014


From: Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] [ANNOUNCE] crash gcore command, version 1.3.0-rc is released
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:11:44 -0400

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> ----- Original Message -----
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>> 
>> (2014/10/14 22:34), Dave Anderson wrote:
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> 
>> I'll merge this in the next rc release.
> 
> OK good -- thanks.
> 
> I have successfully tested this version (with the fix above) on ARM64
> kernels configured with 4K and 64K pages, and also when the gcore module
> is built and run on an x86_64 host with an ARM64 target.
> 

Thanks.

> Another question: another engineer here at Red Hat has recently
> created a crash-gcore-command patch that implements support for PPC64,
> both big-endian and little-endian.  May we post that patch for inclusion
> in version 1.3.0?
> 

Sure. It's no problem to merge PPC64 patche. Please post it.

However, as you've understood, I have no PPC64 system. I cannot test
PPC64 arch at all.

Also, who will maintain the PPC64 code? The engineer? or you'll do it
in addition to ARM64?

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Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke




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