[Crash-utility] [ANNOUNCE] crash gcore command, version 1.6.0 is released

[HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁)]

-----Original Message-----
> This is the release of crash gcore command, version 1.6.0.
> 
> This release includes the following 1 new feature and 2 bug fixes.
> 
> This is tested on the latest kernels on Fedora 33, RHEL8, RHEL7 and
> RHEL6 on x86_64.
> 
> Note that ZRAM support is not included in this release because some
> patch set is still needed in crash utility.
> 
> Hagio-san, could you update the description of crash gcore command
> at https://crash-utility.github.io/extensions.html?

Updated.  It seems there is no change on its help page.
Please let me know if any errors.

Thanks,
Kazu


> 
> ChangeLog:
> 
> - NT_FILE note information is newly supported for tasks in both 64-bit
>   and 32-bit compatible mode:
>     # LANG=C eu-readelf -n core.1.systemd | awk '/FILE$/ {f=1} f == 1 {print $0}' | head -n 10
>       CORE               12957  FILE
>         240 files:
>           564b290de000-564b29112000 00000000 212992      /usr/lib/systemd/systemd
>           564b29112000-564b291de000 00104000 835584      /usr/lib/systemd/systemd
>           564b291de000-564b2923d000 00500000 389120      /usr/lib/systemd/systemd
>           564b2923d000-564b29282000 006d6000 282624      /usr/lib/systemd/systemd
>           564b29282000-564b29283000 0082f000 4096        /usr/lib/systemd/systemd
>           7ffbf12c2000-7ffbf134c000 00000000 565248
> /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.bin
>           7ffbf1352000-7ffbf135a000 00000000 32768       /usr/lib64/libnl-3.so.200.26.0
>           7ffbf135a000-7ffbf1369000 00028000 61440       /usr/lib64/libnl-3.so.200.26.0
>   (thirtsa.dreyfus at intel.com, d.hatayama at fujitsu.com)
> 
> - Fix failure of collecting vDSO mapping if compat vDSO is disabled
>   due to wrongly designed condition for compat tasks that tries to
>   determine vDSO mapping based on VDSO_HIGH_BASE. Without this patch,
>   vDSO mapping page is not collected for tasks running in 32-bit
>   compat mode and thus displaying backtrace by gdb's bt command for
>   the tasks could be incomplete.
>   (d.hatayama at fujitsu.com)
> 
> - Fix failure of invalid structure member offset with the message
>   "gcore: invalid structure member offset:
>   thread_struct_io_bitmap_max" due to change of kernel data structure
>   for io bitmap by the commit <577d5cd7e585> ("x86/ioperm: Move
>   iobitmap data into a struct").
>   (lijiang at redhat.com, d.hatayama at fujitsu.com)
> 
> MD5 CheckSum:
> 
>     # md5sum crash-gcore-command-1.6.0.tar.gz
>     889843438ad702807d48cccfdee94e89  crash-gcore-command-1.6.0.tar.gz
> 
> --
> Thanks.
> HATAYAMA, Daisuke
>