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Changelog for crash-debuginfo-6.0.7-2.7.1.i586.rpm :

* Tue Jul 17 2012 dmairAATTsuse.com- Enabled support for reading dumpfiles compressed by LZO using makedumpfile version 1.4.4 or later.
* Fri Jun 01 2012 dmairAATTsuse.com- Update to crash 6.0.7 from upstream and adjust patches to apply without offsets. Upstream changes: o Enhanced the search command to allow the searched-for value to be entered as a crash (expression) or a kernel symbol name. The resultant value of an (expression) or kernel symbol value must fit into in the designated value size if -w or -h are used, and neither variant may be used with the -c option. If found, both the resultant value and the argument input string will be displayed next to the target address(es). o Added a new \"search -t\" option that will restrict the search to the kernel stack pages of all tasks. If one or more matches are found in a task\'s kernel stack, the output is preceded with a task-identifying header. o Fix for the s390x \"bt -[tT]\" options when run on an active task on a live system. Without the patch, the options fail with the message \"bt: invalid/stale stack pointer for this task: 0\". o Fix for s390x \"vm -p\" option, which may show invalid user to physical address translation data if a page is not mapped. Without the patch, a page\'s translation may indicate \"
SWAP: (unknown swap location) OFFSET: 0\", or show an incorrect swap offset on an actual swap device. o Added new \"vm -[xd]\" options to be used in conjunction with \"vm -[mv]\", which override the current default output format with hexadecimal or decimal format for just the command instance. Without the patch, it would require changing the default output format with \"hex\" or \"dec\" prior to executing \"vm -[mv]\". The new flags may also be used with \"foreach vm -[mv]\". o Fix for the s390x \"vm -p\" and \"vtop -u \" commands if the page containing the relevant PTE is not mapped. Without the patch, the commands fail with the error message \"vm: read error: kernel virtual address: 0 type: entry\" or \"vtop: read error: kernel virtual address: 0 type: entry\" o Fix for the s390x \"vm -p\" command and \"vtop -u \" commands to properly translate pages that are swapped out into their swap file and offset. Without the patch, the swap file and offset would not be displayed. o Added new \"list -[xd]\" options to be used in conjunction with \"list -s\", which override the current default output format with hexadecimal or decimal format for just the command instance. Without the patch, it would require changing the default output format with \"hex\" or \"dec\" prior to executing \"list -s\". o Added new \"net -[xd]\" options to be used in conjunction with \"net -S\", which override the current default output format with hexadecimal or decimal format for just the command instance. Without the patch, it would require changing the default output format with \"hex\" or \"dec\" prior to executing \"net -S\". The new flags may also be used with \"foreach net -S\". o Added new \"mach -[xd]\" options to be used in conjunction with \"mach -c\", which override the current default output format with hexadecimal or decimal format for just the command instance. Without the patch, it would require changing the default output format with \"hex\" or \"dec\" prior to executing \"mach -c\". o If the value read from the cpu online, present, or possible masks contains a cpu bit value that is outside the architecture\'s maximum NR_CPUS value, print a warning message during invocation. Without the patch, a corrupt vmcore containing a bogus mask value could quietly corrupt heap memory. o Add support to for reading dumpfiles compressed by LZO using makedumpfile version 1.4.4 or later. This feature is disabled by default. To enable this feature, build the crash utility in the following manner: (1) Install the LZO libraries by using the host system\'s package manager or by directly downloading libraries from author\'s website. The packages required are: - lzo - lzo-minilzo - lzo-devel The author\'s website is: http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo (2) Create a CFLAGS.extra file and an LDFLAGS.extra file in top-level crash sources directory: - enter -DLZO in the CFLAGS.extra file - enter -llzo2 in the LDFLAGS.extra file. (3) Build crash with \"make\" as always.
* Only available as a source option for manual build in this environment o Fix for the included \"trace\" extension module. Without the patch, if the module initialization sequence fails, a double-free in the module may lead to a subsequent malloc() segmentation violation in the crash session. o Incorporated the \"ipcs\" extension module written by Qiao Nuohan as a built-in command. The command displays the kernel\'s usage of the System V shared memory, semaphore and message queue IPC facilities. It differs from the original extension module by fixing a failure scenario if the current task is exiting, and adds a \"-n pid|task\" option, which displays the IPCS facilities with respect to the namespace of a given pid or task. o Fix for a gdb-7.3.1 regression that causes the line number capability to fail with certain ranges of x86 base kernel text addresses. Without the patch, the \"dis -l \" or \"sym \" commands would fail to show line number information for certain ranges of base kernel text addresses. o Added a new \"printm\" command to the embedded gdb module. It is currently only used by the \"pstruct\" extension module, but can be used to dump the type, size, offset, bitpos and bitsize values of an expression. o Added a new \"runq -t\" option that displays the timestamp information of each cpu\'s runqueue, which consists of either the rq.clock, the rq.most_recent_timestamp or rq.timestamp_last_tick value, whichever applies. Following each cpu timestamp is the last_run or timestamp value of the active task on that cpu, whichever applies, along with the task identification. o Fix for an initialization-time warning when running on a live system with the most recent version of the modprobe command, which no longer supports the -l and --type options. The modprobe is used to detect whether the crash.ko memory driver is part of the distribution. Without the patch, a warning message is issued that indicates \"/sbin/modprobe: invalid option -- \'l\'\". If the driver is built into the kernel, the message is harmless. If the driver is not built into kernel, then the crash.ko (/dev/crash) driver would not be selected as the live memory source.
* Thu May 17 2012 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- delete crash-foreach-match-running.patch: upstream
* Mon May 14 2012 dmairAATTsuse.com- Update to crash 6.0.6 from upstream o Extend the supported cross-architecture build capability so that it applies to the SIAL extentension module. Without the patch, when building the SIAL module an environment where the overlying crash utility was built with \"make target=ARM\", \"make target=PPC\", or \"make target=X86\", the SIAL extension module would continue to be built for the host architecture o Fixes for memory leaks and possible segmentation violations when unloading SIAL extension module scripts. o Fix for the new \"foreach RU\" task state qualifier. Without the patch, the runnable tasks are not selected. o Fix to disallow multiple task states from being entered using the \"foreach \" qualifier. Without the patch, if multiple states were entered, the last one on the command line would be honored. o Fix for the \"extend\" command to allow the usage of 32-bit PPC extension modules. Without the patch, the command fails with the message: \"extend: .so: not an ELF format object file\". o If an input line starts with \"#\" or \"//\", then the line will be saved as a comment that is visible when re-cycling through the command history list. o Fix for a crash-5.1.9 regression that broke the \"bt -g\" option. Without the patch, the option is ignored completely. o Fix for s390x virtual-to-physical translation of virtual addresses that are backed by 1MB pages. o The s390x has a dumpfile method that creates \"live dumps\", where the kernel continues to run while the dumpfile is being created. The initial system banner display and the \"sys\" command will inform the user that the dumpfile is a \"[LIVE DUMP]\", and the \"bt -a\" option will fail with the message \"bt: -a option not supported on a live system or live dump\". o Newly-created dumpfiles generated by the \"snap.c\" extension module will now be recognized as \"live dumps\". Accordingly, the initial system banner display and the \"sys\" command will inform the user that the dumpfile is a \"[LIVE DUMP]\", and the \"bt -a\" option will fail with the message \"bt: -a option not supported on a live system or live dump\". o If \"bt\" alone is attempted on an active task in a \"live dump\", it will indicate \"(active)\", i.e., the same as if it were attempted on a live system. o If an extension module does not define the appropriate architecture, i.e., \"-DX86\", \"-DX86_64\", etc., then the inclusion of \"defs.h\" will generate a compiler failure indicating \"error: \'NR_CPUS\' undeclared here (not in a function)\". In that case, the architecture will now default to that of the host machine. o Prevent a highly-unlikely incorrect calculation of the maximum cpudata array length of a kmem_cache during initialization of of CONFIG_SLAB kernels. o Prevent an infinite loop during the initialization of the kmem_cache subsystem in CONFIG_SLAB kernels if the cache list or the vmcore is corrupt. If the kmem_cache list links back into itself, messages showing the first \"duplicate\" entry in the list and \"crash: unable to initialize kmem slab cache subsystem\" will be displayed. o Update to the \"mod\" command to additionally search for module object files in the directory containing the kernel namelist (vmlinux) file. This will allow an alternate module-debuginfo directory tree to be set up like so: [#] cd [#] rpm2cpio kernel-debuginfo-.rpm | cpio -idv Having done that, and by referencing the vmlinux file in that directory tree directly or by symbolic link, the \"mod\" command will search for module object files starting from the directory containing the vmlinux file if they are not found in the standard /lib/modules/ directory. o Update to the s390x \"bt\" command if a task was running in userspace. Without the patch, the back trace display ended at the kernel entry function frame; with the patch, the user space PSW register is displayed with a \"(user space)\" tag, followed by the general purpose register set. o In the unlikely event that the access of ARM or x86_64 kernel unwind table data fails during crash invocation, print a warning message and allow the crash session to continue. Without the patch, the crash session would fail immediately.
* Tue Mar 27 2012 dmairAATTsuse.com- Update to crash 6.0.5 from upstream and adjust patch positions to match current crash source. 6.0.5 changelog is: o Enhancement to the \"foreach\" command to allow any of the \"name\" arguments to be POSIX extended regular expressions. The expression string must be encompassed by \"\'\" characters, and will be matched against the names of all tasks. o Fix for the embedded gdb module\'s \"ptype\" command, and by extension, the crash utility\'s \"struct\" command, to be able to fully display embedded structure or union members of a structure/union. Without the patch, if a structure or union is a member of a structure or union that is a member of a structure or union, then it is displayed as \"struct {...}\" or \"union {...}\". o Extend the \"ps -l\" output to also display the task state next to its last_run/timestamp value. o Enhancement to the \"foreach\" command which adds a new \"state\" task-indentifier argument that filters tasks by their task state. The state argument may be any of the task states displayed by the \"ps\" command: RU, IN, UN, ST, ZO, SW or DE. o Implemented a new pc->cmd_cleanup function pointer and an optional pc->cmd_cleanup_arg argument that will allow any command to register a function and an optional argument that will be called after a command has completed successfully, or more likely, unsuccessfully. Normally the only cleanup required for a command is the freeing of buffers that were allocated with GETBUF(), but that is performed automatically after each command is run. However, with the introduction of the new POSIX regular expression functionality of the \"foreach\" command, there needed to be a way to call regfree() in the case where where regcomp() was called successfully, but then the command later encountered one of several fatal error conditions. This facility is also available for use by extension module commands. o Enforce the usage of a kernel thread\'s pgd from its active_mm for the ARM \"vtop -c\" command; if its active_mm is NULL, make the command fail similarly to the other architectures, displaying the error message \"vtop: no active_mm for this kernel thread\". o Fix for the x86_64 \"bt\" command running against recent kernels if an active task was operating on its IRQ stack when the crash occurred. Without the patch, the determination of the IRQ exception frame was off-by-8, displaying invalid register data and the error message \"bt: WARNING: possibly bogus exception frame\". o Update to handle the vfsmount structure change in 3.3 kernels, in which most members of the vfsmount structure have been moved into a new \"struct mount\", and the vfsmount structure has been embedded in the new mount structure. Without the patch, the following commands will fail, displaying the following error messages: mount: \"mount: invalid structure member offset: vfsmount_mnt_list\" files: \"files: invalid structure member offset: dentry_d_covers\" vm: \"vm: invalid structure member offset: dentry_d_covers\" swap: \"swap: invalid structure member offset: dentry_d_covers fuser: \"files: invalid structure member offset: dentry_d_covers\" The \"fuser\" command generates the above error because it uses the \"files\" command behind the scenes. o Fix for the \"ps\" command to prevent the display of \"??\" under the ST (task state) column. Without the patch, in more recent kernels, if more than one bit were set in the task_struct.state field, the state would display \"??\". With the fix, the primary state will always be displayed. o Update to the output of the \"set\" command when it displays a task\'s state. Without the patch, if more than one bit was set in the task_struct.state field, \"STATE: (unknown)\" would be displayed. With the fix, all bits in both the task_struct.state and task_struct.exit_state fields are translated. o Implemented a new \"vm -P \" option, which is similar to \"vm -p\", but only does the page translations of the specified VM area of a context. o Add support for the Freescale PowerPC e500mc version of the E500 processor chipset, and rework the PPC platform-specific code in order to more easily support new processors. o Implemented a new \"gdb\" crash environment variable that can be used to alter a crash session\'s behavior such that all commands are passed directly to the embedded gdb module. The new mode is turned on and off by entering \"set gdb on\" and \"set gdb off\". When running in this mode, the command prompt will be \"gdb>\". In order to execute native crash commands while running in this mode, precede the command with the \"crash\" directive, for example, \"crash ps\". o Fix for a \"
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*: crash terminated\" failure during the initial system banner display on a 32-bit PPC platform. o Redesigned/simplified the internal read_string() function to prevent a potential segmentation violation. o Updates for the 32-bit PPC \"vtop\" command output: (1) Translate kernel virtual addresses for FSL BOOKE by using the TLBCAM setting (2) Remove the PMD line from the display (3) Fix the displayed PHYSICAL values of FSL BOOKE PTE format o Fix for crash invocation failure on 3.3-era kernels in which the former standalone \"xtime\" timespec structure has been moved into the \"timekeeper\" structure. Without the patch, the crash session would fail early on with the message \"crash: cannot resolve: xtime\". The patch also prevents the crash session failure in the unlikely event that the timespec access fails.
* Wed Feb 29 2012 dmairAATTsuse.com- Update to crash 6.0.4 from upstream and adjust patch locations to match current crash source. 6.0.4 changelog is: o Fix to allow the recently-added \"mod -g\" and \"mod -r\" options to be used together. o Additional update for 3.1.x and later kernels configured with CONFIG_SLAB, which have replaced the kmem_cache.nodelists[] array with a pointer to an outside array. o Document the \"crash [-h|--help] all\" option in the crash.8 man page and in the \"crash [-h|--help]\" output. o Fix the S390/S390X-specific \"s390dbf\" command\'s \"hex_ascii\" debug data printing routine to prevent the display of non-ASCII characters. o Fix for ARM stack unwinding on 3.2 and later kernels due to commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/de66a979012dbc66b1ec0125795a3f79ee667b8a o Implemented a new \"search -x \" option that displays the memory contents before and after any found search target. o Fix for the x86_64 Xen hypervisor \"bt\" command. Without the patch, the contents of the RDX register in exception frames incorrectly shows the contents of the RCX register. o Implementation of a platform-based vmalloc address translation scheme for the 32-bit PPC architecture, introducing suppport for the PPC44X platform while maintaining the current default platform. o Fix for the usage of native gdb commands where the command output is redirected to a pipe and then redirected to a file. o Fix to prevent a crash session that is run over a network connection that is killed/removed from going into 100% cpu-time loop. o Fix for the support of PPC64 compressed kdumps, a regression that was introduced in crash-6.0.3 when support for 32-bit PPC compressed kdumps was implemented. o Fix for the x86_64 \"bt\" command to prevent the possible skipping of the stack frame just above an exception frame that indicates \"[exception RIP: unknown or invalid address]\". Patches with modified target locations are: crash-make-emacs-default.diff crash-sles9-time.patch crash-crosscrash-hint.diff crash-missing-declarations.patch
* Tue Feb 07 2012 dmairAATTsuse.com- Update to crash 6.0.3 from upstream and modifications to compile. 6.0.3 change log is: o Fix to gdb-7.3.1/bfd/bfdio.c to properly zero out a complete struct stat with a corrected memset argument o Fix for the SIAL extension module to remove a call to sial_free() for an uninitialised variable o Fix for the \"runq\" command for kernels that are configured with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED o Implemented build and code for the analysis of 32-bit PPC ELF kdump vmcores o Implemented the capability of building a PPC crash binary on a PPC64 host, which can be done by entering \"make target=PPC\" o Determine the PPC page size from the kdump PAGESIZE vmcoreinfo data o Fix for the \"kmem -[sS]\", \"kmem -[fF]\" and \"kmem
\" options in 3.2 kernels o Addition of a set of dumpfile read diagnostic debug statements o Fix for X86 kernels that have CONFIG_X86_32, CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM, CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL and CONFIG_NUMA all configured o Fix for the \"vtop\" command on large NUMA X86 kernels where a node\'s starting physical address is larger than 32-bits o Update for the ARM architecture to recognize a recent change of its vmlinux section name from \".init\" to \".init.text\" o Significant speed increase of the \"kmem -p\" command, especially on large-memory systems o Implemented new \"irq -a\" and \"irq -s\" options o Removal of a redundant read of the kernel\'s __per_cpu_offset pointers in the ARM architecture\'s arm_get_crash_notes() function o Fix for an ARM architecture segmentation violation because of a stack overflow due to recursion in the page table translation code o Fix for the the \"FREE HIGH\" tally in the X86 \"kmem -i\" display o Fix for the \"kmem -n\" output display for 32-bit architectures that are configured with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM o Cleanup of several SIAL extension module files to address bison 2.5 and gcc 4.4.3 compile-time warnings o Fix for \"net -[sS]\" command options on the ARM architecture o Fix for the ARM \"bt\" command to allow the core kernel unwind tables to be used in cases where the module unwind tables are inaccessible o Implementation of a new \"dev -d\" option that displays disk device I/O statistics o Update for 3.1.x and later kernels configured with CONFIG_SLAB, which have replaced the kmem_cache.nodelists[] array with a pointer to an outside array o Implemented build and code for analysis of 32-bit PPC compressed kdump vmcores o Prevent the \"runq\" command from dumping an unending loop of tasks if the CFS runqueue has been corrupted o Repurposed/renamed the rarely-used and rarely-needed \"mod -r\" option to \"mod -R\" o Implemented a new \"mod -r\" option, which will pass the \"-readnow\" flag to the embedded gdb module, which will override the two-stage strategy that it uses for reading symbol tables from module object files o Performance increase for the \"kmem -s
\" option on kernels configured with CONFIG_SLAB, most notably on kernels whose kmem_cache.array[NR_CPUS] array is several pages in size o Require that the \"\" argument to \"kmem -s \" be escaped with a \'\\\' character in two situations: (1) in the highly-unlikely case of a kmem_cache slab named \"list\", to prevent the ambiguity with the \"kmem -s list\" command option. (2) if the first character of the actually is a \'\\\' character Modifications to compile are as follows: o Replacement of crash-6.0.2.tar.gz with crash-6.0.3.tar.gz o Remove crash-wrong-memset.patch the fix is present in 6.0.3 o Remove crash-add-read-diags.patch the change is in 6.0.3
* Mon Jan 09 2012 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- crash-wrong-memset.patch: fix compilation on SLE11.
* Thu Jan 05 2012 dmairAATTsuse.com- Update to crash 6.0.2 from upstream and modifications to compile.
* Tue Dec 27 2011 idonmezAATTsuse.com- Fix wrong size parameter in memset call
* Mon Nov 07 2011 dmairAATTsuse.com- Update to crash 6.0.0 from upstream and modifications to compile.
* Thu Oct 13 2011 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- crash-debuginfo-compressed.patch: Search debuginfo files in the same directory as the original gzipped kernel image (bnc#723639).
* Tue Oct 11 2011 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- Add Requires: kernel-$flavor to new-style KMP packages.- Provide old-styl crash-kmp (for SLES9).
* Mon Oct 10 2011 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- Build the crash memory driver kernel module as a KMP.
* Mon Oct 10 2011 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- Change the license from GPLv3 (only) to GPLv3 or higher.
* Thu Sep 22 2011 lchiquittoAATTsuse.com- Add the gcore extension as a subpackage for i386 and x86_64. This extension can be used to create a core dump file of a user-space task that was running in a kernel dumpfile.
* Fri Jun 10 2011 ptesarikAATTsuse.de- Put correct licenses in the RPM header.
* Fri Jun 10 2011 ptesarikAATTsuse.de- crash-missing-declarations.patch: re-apply the patch, because this is still not fixed upstreams and still breaks ppc64 builds.
* Thu Jun 09 2011 ptesarikAATTsuse.de- Update to 5.1.6 o add \"kmem -o\" option (each CPU\'s per-cpu offset value) o remove obsolete \"kmem [-[l|L][a|i]]\" options from the kmem help page o add \"kmem -g [flags]\" option to display the enumerator value of bits in the page structure\'s \"flags\" field o add \"rd -a\" option to display printable ASCII data only o add \"rd -N\" option to use network byte order o extend \"mach\" to display the size and address of each per-cpu IRQ stack and per-cpu exception stack, if they exist o extend \"kmem
\" to display module name if appropriate o arm: support CONFIG_SPARSEMEM o fixes to enable Linux 3.x numbering o x86: fix \"search -k\" if the first memmap page struct does not map to physical address 0 o fix \"search -k\" for kernels with multiple non-sequential NUMA nodes, memory holes between them and no memmap page structures refering to the holes o fix \"kmem -s
\" for addresses in a non-first page of a compound slab and kernels compiled with CONFIG_SLUB and CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED o fix NR_SECTION_ROOTS to ensure a non-zero value o arm: fix a potential double free in read_module_unwind_table() o fix compiler warnings when building with \"make warn\" o fix several typos in the crash(8) man page o see http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html for the complete changelog- drop crash-xen-x86_64-increase-max-vcpus.patch: superseded by mainline\'s allocating VCPU structures dynamically- refresh all patches- specfile cleanups
* Wed May 25 2011 idonmezAATTnovell.com- Update to 5.1.5, mainly gcc 4.6 and kernel 2.6.39 fixes, see http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html for complete changelog.- Refresh crash-sles9-time.patch- Dropped the following patches applied upstream:
* crash-compressed-booted-kernel
* crash-compressed-kernel
* crash-missing-declarations.patch
* crash-xen-domain_vcpu.patch
* crash-xen-opt_sched.patch
* crash-xen-per_cpu-init_tss.patch
* crash-xen-per_cpu_shift.patch
* crash-xen_virt_start.patch
* Fri Jan 07 2011 ptesarikAATTnovell.com- crash-xen-per_cpu-init_tss.patch: init_tss is a per-cpu variable in Xen-4.0.0 (bnc#612128).- crash-xen-x86_64-increase-max-vcpus.patch: x86_64 can have up to 8192 virtual CPUs with Xen-4.0.0 (bnc#612128).- crash-xen-domain_vcpu.patch: Xen-4.0.0. vcpu array is no longer embedded in struct domain (bnc#612128).- crash-xen-opt_sched.patch: opt_sched is __initdata in Xen-4.0.0, so it\'s value is not available in the crash dump. Use opt as a replacement (bnc#612128).- crash-xen_virt_start.patch: account for the changed value of XEN_VIRT_START in Xen-4.0.0 (bnc#612128).- crash-xen-per_cpu_shift.patch: correctly determine PERCPU_SHIFT for Xen syms (bnc#612128).
* Mon Jan 03 2011 dmairAATTnovell.com- Update to 5.1.1 o Fix for the potential to miss tasks when walking the pid_hash table in 2.6.24 and later kernels. Without the patch, the task will simply not be seen in the gathered task list. o Enhancement for the ARM architecture\'s \"bt\" command to print out the user space register set for tasks entering the kernel via the syscall entry point. o Rework of the handling of \"set\" commands that are put in .crashrc files so that only the following options are resolved prior to session initialization: silent, console, core, edit, namelist, and zero_excluded. All others are resolved immediately after session initialization is complete. Accordingly, the use of \"set -c \", \"set -p\", \"set -a [task|pid]\" and set [pid|task]\" are now acceptable .crashrc commands. o The entering of \"set -v\" in a .crashrc file would cause an immediate segmentation violation. The \"set\" command rework above defers the command until session initialization is complete. o The entering of \"set dumpfile \" in a .crashrc file would cause a fatal \"seek\" error during session initalization with most most dumpfile types, so the \"dumpfile\" option has been removed from the \"set\" command. o The execution of \"alias\" commands from a .crashrc file used to be performed immediately; that behavior has been changed so that they are executed immediately after session initialization is complete. o Enhancement of the \"repeat\" command to allow command aliases. o Fix for running \"kmem -s\" on a live system if an offline cpu is brought back online while the command is executing. Without the patch, the online operation may cause a segmentation violation. o Change the behavior of \"bt -[tT]\" to allow the command options to be run on active tasks on live systems. Without the patch, both command options would display the task data banner followed by \"(active)\". o Fix for the ARM architecuture\'s \"irq\" command when run on 2.6.36 and later kernels. Without the patch, the command fails with the error message \"irq: invalid kernel virtual address: 23 type: irq_chip typename\". The fix replaces the custom ARM IRQ dumping function with the architecture-neutral version. o Introduced support for using /proc/kcore as an alternative source of live memory to /dev/mem. Doing so allows vmalloc memory access on 32-bit architectures when the underlying mapped physical memory is in highmem, which is not allowed by the /dev/mem driver. It would also be usable on systems that are configured with CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM but still configured with CONFIG_PROC_KCORE. To enforce the use of /proc/kcore, it may be entered on the command line. o If a live crash session attempts to use /dev/mem as a live memory source, and it is determined that the system is configured with CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM, /proc/kcore will automatically be tried as an alternative. o Fix to allow \"/dev/crash\" to be entered on the command line for live sessions. Because it is used automatically if it exists, it is never necessary to enter it on the command line. However, if it is used, without the patch, the session fails during initializaion with the error message \"crash: /dev/crash: No such file or directory\" if the crash.ko driver is a module, or \"crash: /dev/crash: not a supported file format\" if the driver is built into the kernel. o Fix for the ARM \"bt\" command to address the issue behind faulty warning messages that indicate \"WARNING: UNWIND: unsupported personality routine\". o Fix for the ARM \"bt\" command to address the issue behind faulty warning messages that indicate \"bt: WARNING: UNWIND: cannot find index for
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* Mon Dec 13 2010 dmairAATTnovell.com- Update to 5.1.0 o x86: Fix for the \"bt\" command for active, non-chrashing, tasks on 2.6.31 and later kernels without CONFIG_4KSTACKS. o x86 and x86_64: Add module names to \"bt\" outputs. o Enhance the \"sym\" command to display the containing module name in brackets. o Support module per-cpu symbols after they are loaded with the \"mod -[sS]\" command. o x86: Fix for the \"bt\" command to properly handle a NMI-interrupted idle task running in cpu_idle(). o s390x: Support for compressed kdump dumpfiles created by the makedumpfile facility. o x86 Xen guest: Fix for the \"bt\" command where a vcpu received a shutdown NMI while running in the event_check_interrupt() interrupt handler. o x86 Xen guest: Fix for the \"bt\" command where a vcpu received a shutdown NMI while running in the hypercall entry point. o s390x: Fix for the \"help -n\" output on ELF vmcore dumpfiles to recognize the several architecture specific n_types. o s390x Fix for the \"help -n\" output on ELF vmcore dumpfiles to properly dump the contents of the descriptor data of each Elf64_Nhdr note. o Fix for the \"help -n\" output for diskdump and compressed kdump files to show the filename as stored in the per-file diskdump_data structure. o Resurrection of the \"irq -b\" command option for 2.6 kernels. o Fix for displaying data generated from shell-escaped commands when the data contains a \"%\" character followed by a conversion character o Re-worked the do_radix_tree() utility function to work without depending upon a hardwired copy of the kernel\'s radix_tree_node structure, and changed various RADIX_TREE values into dynamically calculated values. o Call FREEBUF() on a GETBUF()-generated buffer ub the do_radix_tree() utility function. o x86_64: Store the .debug_frame section offset and size from the vmlinux file and use its data as an alternative to the .eh_frame section data. o Fix for errors or nonsensical output from the \"irq\" command when run on 2.6.29 kernels. o Fix for error output from the \"irq\" command when run on 2.6.34 and later kernels.
* Mon Oct 11 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com- Update to 5.0.8 o x86_64: Fix the \"bt\" command on 2.6.30 and later kernels when using a System.map file. o Fix KVM error messages generated by store_mapfile_offset() and and load_mapfile_offset() when an invalid physical address is issued. o Fix the \"sig\" command on 2.6.35 and later kernels. o Fix the \"net -s\" command option on 2.6.33 and later kernels. o Fix the \"mod\" command on 2.6.35 and later kernels. o Fix the \"mount -f\" command on 2.6.36 and later kernels. o Fix missing \"/dev\" prefix for files in the /dev directory listed by the \"files\" command. o x86_64: Use cpu_present_map instead of cpu_online_map to determine the CPU count. o x86_64: Fix the \"bt\" command on 2.6.27 and later kernels to prevent the possible display of an invalid \"vgettimeofday\" frame above the topmost \"system_call_fastpath\" frame. o s390x: Read pointers above 4GiB correctly with the \"s390dbf\" command. o Allow building crash as an x86 binary for ARM dumpfiles on an x86_64 host. o Simplify the ARM build procedure after an initial ARM build has been completed in a crash source tree. o Allow building crash as an x86 binary on an x86_64 host. o Fix a regression in get_text_init_space() due to logic added by the ARM processor support. o SMP support SMP for the ARM architecture. o x86_64: Fix the \"bt\" command on 2.6.31 and later kernels to display the the exception frame from the forced oops after issuing an \"echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger\". o Recognize module \"init\" symbols that are still valid.
* Mon Sep 20 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com- Update to 5.0.7 o ARM processor support. o Support KVM dumpfiles that have \"ram\" device header sections with a version_id of 4. o Support KVM dumpfiles from guests that were provisioned with more than 3.5GB of RAM. o Minor fix to memory.c to address a compiler warning. o \"mount\": Fix a segmentation violation if the \"init\" task (PID 1) does not exist. o x86_64: Show \"RT\" in exception stack name strings on realtime (CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) kernels, because RT kernels may use the same per-cpu stack for different exception types. o Show tasks that could be missed in 2.6.23 and earlier kernels. o Fix the incorrect presumption that the kernel\'s task_state_array[] is NULL terminated.
* Mon Sep 20 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com- Update to 5.0.6 o x86_64: Fix 2.6.27 and later xendump and Xen kdump dumpfiles (\"missing end_pfn\") o Allow redirecting the output of \"s390dbf\" to a pipe. o x86: Improve the backtrace end detection algorithm in \"bt\" for tasks entering the kernel from user-space. o Warn about machine type mismatch when attempting to use a ppc64 vmlinux file on a non-ppc64 64-bit host. o x86_64: Fix the \"bt\" command if the kdump-generated NMI interrupts a multi-threaded task that has just entered kernel space and has not changed the user-space RSP register. o Allow changing internal variables in --minimal mode with the \"set\" command. o x86: Fix the \"vtop\" command on Xen PAE kernels. o x86, x86_64: Support running against live pv_ops/Xen guest kernels. o x86, x86_64: Support xendump ELF dumpfiles generated from pvops/Xen guest kernels. o Determine the bit positions of PG_reserved and PG_slab using the newer pageflags enumerator values if available. o Prevent the \"repeat\" command from keeping a crash session alive if the controlling terminal session is killed.
* Wed Jul 14 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com- crash-compressed-booted-kernel: correctly find the booted kernel even if compressed (bnc#581159).
* Tue Jun 22 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com- Update to 5.0.5 o Add \"bt -F\" flag: same as \"bt -f\" but symbolic expressions are preferred (similar to \"rd -S\"). o Fix for the %install stanza in the crash.spec file to check for the existence of the sial.so extension module. o Fix a confusing \"foreach:\" prefix in the error message displayed by the \"crash -x\" command line option when the pre-loading of an extension module fails. o x86_64: Fix \"bt\" and \"bt -E\" if the kdump-generated NMI interrupts a task that has just entered kernel space but has not yet changed the RSP register to the kernel stack. o x86: Fix \"bt\" if the crash occurs during the execution of a kernel module\'s init_module() function. o Fix \"kmem -[sS]\" on 2.6.34 and later CONFIG_SLUB kernels, which changed the kmem_cache.cpu_slab[NR_CPUS] array to be a per-cpu offset value. o Show hexadecimal values in the \"INDEX\" colum of \"kmem -p\", because because \"page.index\" is typically a shared-use field that may also contain a pointer value. o Fix \"kmem
\" if the kernel\'s free page lists are corrupt, or in a state of flux, and cannot be followed. o Support newer \"virsh dump\"-generated KVM formats that may contain \"block\" and \"kvmclock\" devices in the dumpfile header. o Support \"virsh dump\"-generated KVM dumpfiles of a RHEL5 guest from a RHEL6 host, and to support dumpfile format changes that contain \"apic\" and \"__rhel5\" devices. o Fix a compiler warning when building gdb_interface.c with -O2. o Fix compiler warnings when building net.c with -O2.
* Mon Jun 21 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com- Update to 5.0.4 o x86: Fix \"bt\" when a newly-forked task\'s resumption EIP value points to \"ret_from_fork\". o x86: Fix \"bt\" when an NMI interrupts a task early during system call entry. o x86_64: Fix \"bt\" on 2.6.29 and later to recognize and display exception frames generated by exceptions that do not result in a stack switch, such as general protection faults. o ppc64: Account for an update to the kernel patch for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. o Improve \"dev -p\" error message on 2.6.26 or later kernels, which no longer have the \"pci_devices\" global variable. o s390(x): Display \"CPU offline\" when doing a backtrace of the \"swapper\" task on an offline CPU. o x86_64: Fix per-cpu symbols on 2.6.34 and later kernels by allowing them to be of type \'d\' or \'D\'. o x86_64: Fix a segmentation violation during initialization in x86_64_get_active_set(). o Support KVM dumpfiles created with \"virsh dump\" that create \"cpu\" header sections using a QEMU CPU_SAVE_VERSION version greater than the supported version of 9. o x86_64: Fix for KVM dumpfiles created with \"virsh dump\", whose kernels have a \"_text\" virtual address higher than __START_KERNEL_map. o Add a \"map\" command for specifying the memory map of KVM guest dumpfiles created with \"virsh dump\". o x86_64: Correctly calculate the physical base address of a fully-virtualized RHEL6 guest kernel running on a RHEL5 Xen host. o x86_64: Fix \"bt\" on inactive (blocked) tasks for 2.6.33 and later kernels, which have the \"thread_return\" symbol removed from the embedded \"switch_to\" macro. o x86: Fix for \"bt\" on 2.6.33 and later kernels, which moved the \"system_call\" symbol to the .kprobes.text section. o Fix a segmentation violation in the \"trace\" extension module, as seen when running \"trace show -c \". o Add a \"trace dump -t\" command for the \"trace\" extension module.
* Tue Apr 20 2010 bernhardAATTbwalle.de- Update to 5.0.3 o Fix for running against 2.6.34 and later kernels to recognize and handle changes in the kernel\'s per-cpu data symbol naming, which no longer prefixes \"per_cpu__\" to declared per-cpu symbol names. o Fix for \"swap\" and \"kmem -i\" commands on 2.6.29 or later, big-endian, ppc64 kernels, where the swap_info_struct.flags member was changed from an int to a long. o Fix for the \"vm\" and \"ps\" command\'s task RSS value on 2.6.34 or later kernels. o Fixed \"possible aternatives\" spelling typo used in informational messages when an incorrect/unknown symbol name is used in \"rd\", \"dis\", \"sym\" and \"struct\" commands. o Fix for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM kernels that are not configured with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME. o Change the output of the \"kmem -[cC]\" options to indicate that they are not supported when that is relevant.- Refresh crash-compressed-kernel and crash-sles9-time.patch.
* Thu Apr 01 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com- crash-missing-declarations.patch: add a missing include (fixes compilation on ppc64).
* Mon Mar 29 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com- Update to 5.0.2 o Fix \"mod -[sS]\" if the attempt to load a kernel module fails due to an internal gdb error. o Avoid recalculation and modification of module symbol values from their CONFIG_KALLSYMS-generated values. o Fix a bug in reading some dumpfiles created with the \"snap\" extension. o s390, s390x: fix several bugs in the stack backtrace code. o x86, x86_64: fix \"mach -m\" if the BIOS-provided e820 map contains unusable EFI-related memory type values. o Fix the \"bool\" type in SIAL. o x86: avoid a stream of harmless but annoying error messages when running \"crash -d4\" (or any larger -d debug value). o Fix \"kmem -s list\" on non-CONFIG_SLUB kernels that contain a \"cache_chain\" symbol instead of a \"cache_chain\" macro. o x86_64: let \"bt\" use the stored frame pointers if the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER. o ppc64: show the number of online cpus in the initial system banner and the \"sys\" and \"mach\" commands. o x86_64: fix the stack frame size calculator on kernels that were built without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER. o Avoid an endless loop on EOF from /dev/tty. o \"ps -t\": display utime and stime values unmodified on kernels that store them in a cputime_t. o x86: fix \"bt\" if the kdump-generated NMI interrupts a process in kernel space before the full user-mode exception frame gets written on the kernel stack. o x86: fix \"bt -e\" on 2.6.30 or later if crash is compiled with - D_FORTIFY_SOURCE. o Fix initialization-time failures on 2.6.34 and later kernels built with CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM. o ppc, ppc64: fix the displayed processor speed. o ppc64: support for an IBM-proposed kernel patch for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP kernels that will store vmemmap page mapping information. o Fix \"kmem -[sS]\" on live CONFIG_SLAB systems to prevent the redundant reading of the shared array_cache object list from the per-node kmem_list3 data structures.
* Sat Mar 20 2010 bernhardAATTbwalle.de- Update README.SUSE: o The search paths are no longer SUSE specific. o The command \'extend sial.so\' (with suffix) is needed to load the SIAL extension.
* Fri Mar 12 2010 bernhardAATTbwalle.de- Fix sps command from SIAL ps.c for kernel >= 2.6.29.
* Tue Feb 23 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com- crash-rl_digit_loop-return.patch: add the missing return to the embedded readline.
* Tue Feb 23 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com- Update to 5.0.1 o Fix \"irq\" on 2.6.33 and later kernels. o Fix \"swap\", \"kmem -i\", and \"vm -p\" on 2.6.33 and later. o Fix \"bt\" on an ia64 \"INIT\" process that interrupted a task that was running in user space, but was unable to modify the original (interrupted) task\'s stack. o Fix \"bt\" on offline s390/s390x \"swapper\" idle tasks. o x86, s390, s390x, ia64: use the highest online CPU number plus one as the system CPU count. o Correctly recognize per-cpu variables. o Let \"struct\" or \"union\" fail gracefully if given an unmapped or non-existent address. o Fix support of >4GB Xen domU dumpfiles. o Account for the renaming of the st_status_fixed_logout _lowcore struct member in 2.6.33 and later s390 and s390x kernels. o Add a defensive mechanism to handle corrupted \"cache_cache\". o Fix a startup segfault with 2.6.30 or later x86_64 dumpfiles from kernels compiled without CONFIG_SMP. o Fix a startup segfault if a kernel crashes while loding a kernel module. o Fix build failures with gcc-4.5 on x86_64. o Use mkstemps() from the built-in libiberty.a to allow running crash with pre-2.11 glibc versions. o Accept gdb-7.0 disassembler output on 2.6.20 and earlier x86 kernels. o Fix a gdb-7.0 regression that prevented \"dis -l\" from showing line numbers for some x86 base kernel text addresses. o Preparation for future s390x ELF dumpfile format.- Delete crash-large-xendump.patch: now solved in mainline.
* Fri Feb 12 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com- crash-large-xendump.patch: properly handle xendumps larger than 4GBs. (bnc#542170)
* Fri Feb 12 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com- crash-Makefile-ADD_CFLAGS: remove Upstream has honoured the CFLAGS settings since 4.0-8.12.
* Fri Feb 12 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com- Update to 5.0.0 o Update embedded gdb to FSF gdb-7.0. o Always recognize and display BUG()-induced exception frames when doing a backtrace on 2.6.29 and later x86_64 kernels. o Fix \"ps -r\" segfaults with 2.6.25 or later. o Fix \"mount\" on 2.6.32 and later (except \"mount -i\", which cannot be easily implemented for these kernel versions). o Recognize VMEMMAP_REGION virtual addresses in 2.6.26 and later ppc64 kernels compiled with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. o Fix a 4.0-8.11 regression in determining the number of cpus on ppc64. o Fix \"irq\" on ppc64 kernel which do not define \"irq_desc_t\" as a typedef for \"struct irq_desc\". o Avoid the unnecessary \"WARNING: sparsemem: invalid section number:\" message when doing \"rd\" or \"kmem\" on CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME kernels.
* Fri Feb 05 2010 jengelhAATTmedozas.de- Construct an ExclusiveArch tag for specfile to match source-code capabilities
* Tue Jan 05 2010 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- Update to 4.1.2 o Fix initialization failure with 2.6.31 or later x86_64 CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES kernels running on systems that have multiple NUMA nodes. o Fix the snap.c extension module to properly handle NUMA systems with multiple nodes, or single-node systems whose first unity-mapped PT_LOAD segment starts on a non-zero physical address. o Fix \"bt [-t|-T]\" on x86 when the backtrace passes through three stacks (hard IRQ, soft IRQ, process). o Do not warn about \"non-process stack address for this task\" when \"bt -S\" is given a legitimate hard or soft IRQ stack address, or an x86_64 exception stack address. o Add a defensive mechanism to handle corrupt ELF core headers. o More non-functional changes for future integration of gdb-7.0 and for addressing Fedora packaging guidelines.- fixed reference to an uninitialized struct member
* Mon Dec 07 2009 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- Update to 4.1.1 o Add \"lsmod\" as a built-in alias for the \"mod\" command. o Enhance \"bt\" on x86_64 to display which one of the five exception stacks it is operating on. o Add defensive mechanism to handle corrupt Elf32_Nhdr/Elf64_Nhdr structures in an ELF vmcore. o Fix DEBUG exception stack size and stack base address on 2.6.18 and later x86_64 kernels. o Fix session initialization failure with 2.6.30 and later x86_64 kernels if the number of possible cpus equals the kernel\'s configured NR_CPUS. o Fix potential session initialization failure with 2.6.30 and later x86_64 kernel dumpfiles filtered by makedumpfile. o Fix \"mach -c\" on 2.6.30 and later x86_64 kernels. o Preparations in the top-level source code for the integration of gbd-7.0. The current embedded version remains gdb-6.1.
* Fri Oct 09 2009 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- Update to 4.1.0 o Fix \"extend\" regression on s390x and x86, introduced in crash 4.0.9 with the \"-x\" option o Cleanup top-level source files to address compiler warnings generated by the CFLAGS used in the Fedora build environment o Fix \"pte\" on s390 and s390x if the pte value argument evaluates as not present o Allow command redirection to pipes or files when using gdb commands alone on the command line without preceding it with \"gdb\" o Fix the processing of bit fields on big endian systems in the SIAL extension module o Fix \"dis -l\" to properly display line-number information for 2.6.21 and later x86_64 kernel module text addresses o Prevent querying the embedded gdb module for line numbers of kernel module text addresses if the module\'s debuginfo data has not been loaded o New option \"ps -G\" to restrict the process status output to the thread group leader of a thread group o Several fixes for the \"repeat\" command when used in conjunction with an input file. Without the patch: - Depending upon the command executed from the input file, a SIGINT would kill the command currently being executed from the input file, but the \"repeat\" command would then restart it. - If a command in the input file redirected its output to a pipe, the repeat operation could stop prematurely after executing that particular command. - If a command in the input file redirected its output to a pipe, the zombies of the command being piped to would not be cleaned up until the repeat command was stopped. - If the last command in the input file redirected its output to a pipe, all subsequent executions of the input file would only display the output of that last command. o New extension: \"trace.so\" o Fix for a potential failure to initialize the kmem slab cache subsystem on 2.6.22 and later CONFIG_SLAB kernels if the dumpfile has pages excluded by the makedumpfile facility o Fix a potential session initialization failure on x86_64 kernels if the dumpfile has pages excluded by the makedumpfile facility o Fix \"kmem -z\" on 2.6.29 and later kernels o Fix \"irq\" on 2.6.29 and later CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ kernels o Fix \"kmem -i\" on 2.6.31 kernels o Fix \"kmem -i\" on x86_64 running 2.6.26 through 2.6.30 o Fix \"kmem -p\" on older 64-bit kernels that have a 32-bit page.flags field o Fix \"kmem -i\" on older kernels whose unreferenced page.count value was -1 (instead of 0) o Change the cursor location when cycling through the command history in \"vi\" editing mode (the default)
* Fri Oct 09 2009 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- Update to 4.0.9 o New mainline versioning o Wholesale replacement of the x86/x86_64 disassembly code in the embedded gdb-6.1 module to that used in gdb-6.8 to correctly decode the 5-byte NOP used by the function tracer o Fix compressed diskdump/kdump vmcores to properly handle page descriptor structures that are located beyond a 4GB file offset in the vmcore file o Fix the \"sym
\" command option when the address references a symbol in the vsyscall FIXMAP virtual address page in certain x86_64 kernel versions o Multiple fixes for the \"bt\" command on x86_64: - properly recognize vsyscall FIXMAP virtual addresses when encountered as the RIP in an exception frame. - always use the NMI exception stack when available, not the per-cpu IRQ stack of an active non-crashing task - correctly determine the frame just above an IRQ interrupt exception frame, or above an exception frame that gets handled on the process stack, such as a page fault - correctly calculate the frame size to differentiate between text return addresses and the precise text RIP address of an exception o Fix usage of a System.map file argument with 2.6.30 and later kernels to avoid \"crash: symbol count overflow (trace_kmalloc)\" messages o Fix usage of a System.map file argument whose symbol list does not contain an \"_end\" symbol. o Fix \"kmem -p
\" or \"kmem
\" when
is not a page structure address to avoid the annoying \"kmem: WARNING: sparsemem: invalid section number: 8192\" messages o Fix the snap.so extension module when run on pre-2.6.31 x86_64 kernels with more than 4GB of physical memory o Fix build of the snap.so extension module on older systems running with \"make\" versions 3.80 or earlier o Fix build of the sial.so extension module if /usr/bin/bison and /usr/bin/flex do not exist on the host build system o Fix for the \"rd\" and \"vtop\" commands on RHEL4 x86_64 Xen paravirtual kernels in the reading or translation of vmalloc addresses that are not in kernel module vmalloc address space o New command line option \"-x\" to automatically load extension modules
* Fri Oct 09 2009 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- Update to 4.0-8.12 o Support for the KVM \"save-vm\" file format o Support for 2.6.30 and later x86 CONFIG_4KSTACKS kernels, where hardirq_ctx[] and softirq_ctx[] arrays were changed to per-cpu o Replace the CFLAGS definition in the Makefile with a CRASH_CFLAGS definition, which in turn contains ${CFLAGS} to allow user-defined CFLAGS on the \"make\" command line o Bail out with a \"not a supported file format\" error immediately when trying to open x86 vmlinux file on an x86_64 host o Fix the \"bt\" command on x86 Xen hypervisor dumpfiles where a vcpu received a shutdown NMI while running in an interrupt handler o Correct cpu accounting when processors have been taken offline using a new get_highest_cpu_online() utility function o Fix a segmentation violation when running against kernels built with Fedora gcc version 4.4.0-12 and later, which introduced a more compact Dwarf 3 DW_AT_data_member location o Clean up gdb header files that generate warning messages when compiling the top-level cmdline.c file with \"make warn\" or \"make Warn\"- Delete crash-4096-cpus-x86_64.diff: Mainline.
* Thu Jul 02 2009 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- Update to 4.0-8.11 o Fix the mapping of CPU to NT_PRSTATUS notes in kdump ELF dumpfiles; if a CPU was offlined, this mapping is not identity o Enhance the \"dev\" command to show CDEV and GENDISK o Fix the OPERATIONS column of \"dev\" o Fix potential SEGV when running \"foreach bt\" on a live system with many processes starting and ending o Fix reading of LKCD Version 8 and later x86 dumpfile headers o Fix backtraces of non-crashing CPUs interupted during process switch (x86_64) o Fix backtrace when transitioning from the IRQ stack to the process stack on 2.6.29 and later (x86_64) o Enhance \"runq\" to show the current task in each CPU\'s runqueue o Fix a memory leak when running on live systems o Allow using vmlinux files with DWARF3 debuginfo o Allow any order of arguments with a System.map file o Add several new defensive mechanisms to prevent potential errors and SEGVs when using non-matching vmcore, System.map and vmcore files o Adjust several virtual and physical memory address definitions for 2.6.31 x86_64 kernels o Improve \"kmem -s\" or \"kmem -S\" options with CONFIG_SLUB when an invalid slab page link address is encountered
* Thu Jul 02 2009 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- Update to 4.0-8.10 o Enhance directory search for \"mod -S \" so that it is now possible to use an alternate module/module-debuginfo directory tree, created with rpm2cpio in a non-root directory o NEW: \"--mod\" command-line option to override the default location of the module directory tree o NEW: snap.so extension to create a kdump or netdump dumpfile from a live system (x86, x86_64, ppc64, ia64 only) o Recognize cpu_
*_mask symbols on 2.6.29 o Handle the removal of x8664_pda from 2.6.30 o Use \"crashing_cpu\" to determine a kdump x86_64 panic task o Add \"./extensions\" to the list of directories searched for the \"extend\" command. The order is now: 1. the current working directory 2. the directory specified in the CRASH_EXTENSIONS shell environment variable 3. /usr/lib64/crash/extensions (64-bit architectures) 4. /usr/lib/crash/extensions 5. ./extensions o Rebuild extensions when defs.h is modified o Add several function prototypes for the SIAL extension module to fix incompatible int size on 64-bit o Enhance the extension modules API with a set of functions to get the register set from an NT_PRSTATUS note if available o Fix a SEGV when the panic task cannot be determined from a ppc64 kdump vmcore
* Mon Apr 27 2009 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- Update to 4.0-8.9 o NEW: Add option \"bt -g\" to display the backtraces of all threads in a thread group o NEW: Support for kdump \"split-dumpfile\" format produced by \"makedumpfile --split\" o Fix for \"kmem -i\", \"kmem -n\" and \"kmem -p\" on x86_64 CONFIG_SPARSEMEM and CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME kernels that have MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS increased from 40 to 44 o Allow multiple \"--machdep option=value\" command-line options o Produce a warning if \"bt\" is attempted on active, non-crashing, xen dom0 tasks using kdump dumpfiles o Fix for potentially empty \"bt -t\" output, and for \"bt -T\" potentially dumping the text return addresses in the hard or soft IRQ stacks instead of the process stack
* Tue Apr 21 2009 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz- Update to 4.0-8.8 o Add the CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM hint when reading /dev/mem fails o Fix segmentation violation in \"bt\" when reading certain x86_64 Egenera/LKCD dumpfiles where the starting stack hooks o Fix the \"log\" command for cases when the log buffer was cleared with syslog() or klogctl() o Improve the error message displayed by \"bt -S\" when given a non-process stack address as an argument o Search directories for the \"extend\" command in this order: 1. the current working directory 2. the directory specified in the CRASH_EXTENSIONS shell environment variable 3. /usr/lib64/crash/extensions (64-bit architectures) 4. /usr/lib/crash/extensions o Improve how the \"bt\" command determines which PID 0 swapper task was interrupted by an ia64 INIT or MCA exception o Remove an unused initialized variable in get_task_mem_usage() o Add a debug-level 8 statement in readmem() to display the current input address and its translated physical address under the existing debug-level 4 \"\" line- Delete crash-improve-find-extension.diff: Solved slightly differently in mainline.
* Sat Feb 07 2009 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Update to 4.0-7.7 o Dynamic page size detection on PPC64 and IA64. o Fix for \"mod -[sS]\" command if the target module object filename contains both underscore and dash characters. o Reject s390 and s390x \"L2^B\" local label symbols from the kernel symbol list. o Enlarge the string format buffer in the show_last_run() function to prevent a buffer overflow when running \"ps -l\". o Fix for \"bt -a\" to continue with the backtraces of the remaining active tasks when one of them encounters a fatal error. o Only allow trusted versions of .crashrc and .gdbinit files to be sourced during session initialization. o Fix for a potential but highly unlikely buffer overflow in the gdb dwarfread.c and dwarf2read.c files, which requires a hand- crafted object file with a location block (DW_FORM_block) that contains a large number of operations. o Fix for a potential but highly unlikely integer overflow in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library, which requires a hand- crafted object file that that specifies a large number of section headers, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. o Enable stack unwind on ia64 when using a kerntypes file as the kernel namelist. o Fix for failure of \"files -R\" command option if an inode is unknown due to a NULL f_dentry pointer in any open file structure because of a kernel error condition. o Allow an LKCD kerntypes debuginfo file created from a kernel module to be loaded with the command: \"mod -s \". o Increased NR_CPUS from 256 to 512 for x86_64, and from 128 to 1024 for ppc64.- Delete crash-fix_ps-l_buffer_overflow.patch: Mainline.- Delete crash-pagesize.diff: Mainline.- Delete crash-ppc64-nr_cpus.diff: Mainline.- Delete crash-s390-System.map-limit.diff: Mainline.- Delete crash-unwind-lkcd.diff: Mainline.
* Fri Jan 23 2009 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Don\'t build on 32 bit PPC to prevent distribution of 32 bit PPC packages. Since kdump doesn\'t exist on ppc and crash-ppc cannot read ppc64 (ELF64) dumps, such a package doesn\'t have any practical benefit.
* Fri Jan 23 2009 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Correctly unwind with LKCD kerntypes files.
* Thu Jan 15 2009 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Merge crash-segmentation-fault-fix.diff into crash-compressed-kernel.- crash-pagesize.diff: Polish for mainline inclusion. o Remove the ia64 part that is responsible for dumps that are in ELF format and have no VMCOREINFO. o Only apply the code to ppc64 and ia64 since that\'s the only architectures that are affected.
* Thu Jan 15 2009 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Improve crash-s390-System.map-limit.diff: Don\'t increase the limit but filter out the unnecessary symbols.
* Wed Jan 14 2009 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Support dump page sizes that are different from the system page sizes on ppc and ia64.
* Mon Jan 12 2009 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Update to 4.0-7.6 o Fix for initialization-time failure if the kernel was built without CONFIG_SWAP. o Fix for the \"bt\" command when run on x86_64 kernels that contain the x86/x86_64 merger patch. o Fix for the usage of an input file of commands redirected during runtime via \"<\", where more than one command in the input file results in a fatal error. o Clean up causes for warning messages when compiling with gcc 4.3.2. o Fix to prevent a segmentation violation during initialization when parsing (corrupted) module symbols. o If an active task experiences a kernel stack overflow, the task\'s thread_info structure located at the very bottom of the stack will likely have its \"cpu\" field corrupted. o Modification of the the \"files\" command when a task has an open file referenced by a file descriptor, but the file structure\'s f_dentry field is NULL. o Fix for the \"bt\" command on x86 Xen architectures when the backtrace starts on the hard IRQ stack.- Drop crash-fixed-uninitialised: mainline.- Refresh crash-compressed-kernel, crash-crosscrash-hint.diff, crash-fix_ps-l_buffer_overflow.patch, crash-fixed-uninitialised, crash-improve-find-extension.diff, crash-sles9-time.patch, crash-s390-System.map-limit.diff.
* Thu Dec 11 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Don\'t print error messages when locating the path of the extension, only print an error message if the extension cannot be found (bnc #457006).- Refresh other patches.
* Thu Dec 11 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Workaround for L2^B1 symbols that repeat more than 200 times in s390x System.map (bnc #456682).
* Mon Dec 08 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Fix ps -l buffer overflow problem (bnc #457151).
* Mon Dec 08 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Update to 4.0-7.5 o Fix for \"kmem -i\" and \"kmem -p\" on 2.6.26 x86 CONFIG_SPARSEMEM PAE kernels to account for the change in value of SECTION_SIZE_BITS. o Fix for \"bt -[tT]\" options on x86 architectures when the backtrace starts on the hard IRQ stack. o Fix for the \"bt\" command when run on a xen hypervisor in which the backtrace leads to either \"process_softirqs\" or \"page_fault\". o Fix for the \"kmem -[sS]\" options that could cause a segmentation violation or bogus \"bad slab pointer\" and \"bad inuse counter\" error messages. o Fix for a bug in the SIAL extension when dealing with bitfields. o Fix for the \"files\" command when run on 2.6.25 and later kernels, which would either fail with an \"invalid kernel virtual address\" error of type \"fill_dentry_cache\", or would show nonsensical/garbage \"ROOT\" and \"CWD\" pathnames. o Addition of a new \"null-stop\" environment variable that can be turned on/off with the \"set\" command. o Fix for the builtin \"g\" alias, which would fail with an \"Ambiguous command\" error from the embedded gdb module. o Fix to handle the 2.6.27 kernel\'s change of the module structure\'s num_symtab, core_size and core_text_size members from long to int. o Implement support for the /dev/crash driver being built into x86 or x86_64 Red Hat kernels with the restricted /dev/mem driver. o If the /dev/crash driver module has been loaded prior to a live crash session, then it will not be unloaded when the crash session exits. o Fix to recognize the 2.6.25 re-naming of the x86 user_regs_struct structure members. o Fix for initialization-time failure when running against 2.6.27 x86_64 xen kernels, which indicate \"crash: cannot resolve: end_pfn\". o Fix for initialization-time failure when running against Xen 4.4 hypervisor binaries, which indicate \"crash: invalid structure member offset: domain_is_polling\". o Added a new \"p -u\" option, which indicates that the gdb expression argument evaluates to a user virtual address in the current context. o Fix for \"bt -a\" command when running against the xen hypervisor where the number of physical cpus outnumber the MAX_VIRT_CPUS value for the processor type. o Fix for the display of the processor speed on IBM Power6 hardware.- Drop crash-sial-fix-bitfield.diff: Mainline.- Drop crash-fix-files-2.6.25-later.diff: Mainline.- Drop crash-struct-module-2.6.27.diff: Mainline.- Drop crash-xen-no-polling.diff: Mainline.- Drop crash-xen-vm-2.6.27.diff: Mainline.
* Thu Nov 27 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Improve crash-xen-no-polling.diff: Check if \"is_polling\" member of struct domain exists instead of removing all references entirely.
* Wed Nov 26 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Fix Xen hypervisor mode (removal of struct domain::is_polling element in Xen).- Fix opening of Xen Dom0 dumps (switch from end_pfn to max_pfn between 2.6.26 and 2.6.27).
* Wed Nov 12 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Increase NR_CPUs on x86_64 to 4096 (FATE#304266).
* Tue Nov 11 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Don\'t fail to start when no namelist (kernel) is specified on the command line and live debugging (/dev/mem) is used.
* Mon Nov 10 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Advise the user to use \'crosscrash\' if he tries to open dumps from different machines (FATE #302896).
* Thu Nov 06 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Increase NR_CPUS to 1024 on ppc64.- Implement size changes of struct module for kernel 2.6.27. to be able to open dumps with that kernel version at ppc64.
* Thu Nov 06 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Fix segmentation fault while executing crash command without any parameter (bnc#441818).
* Sat Oct 25 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Fix for the \"files\" command when run on 2.6.25 and later kernels, which either fails with an \"invalid kernel virtual address\" error of type \"fill_dentry_cache\", or shows nonsensical/garbage \"ROOT\" and \"CWD\" directory pathnames.
* Tue Oct 21 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- SIAL extension: bitfield handling fixup.
* Thu Oct 16 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Require /usr/bin/nm.
* Tue Oct 14 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-7.4 o Fix for a build regression for non-xen architectures introduced in version 4.0-7.3.- Remove crash-non-xen-build.diff: Mainline.
* Sat Oct 11 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Fix build on non-Xen architectures (s390/s390x and ppc64).
* Sat Oct 11 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-7.3 - Fix for nonsensical usage of the \"set\" command when running against the xen hypervisor binary. - Fix for \"bt\" command on x86 architectures when the backtrace starts on the hard IRQ stack. - Fix for \"search -k\" option on some ia64 hardware, depending upon the underlying physical memory layout. - Fixes for the \"bt\" command when running against the xen hypervisor binary. - The \"foreach\" command has been removed from the set of commands supported for usage with the xen hypervisor. - Fix for \"irq -d\" option when run on x86_64 xen kernels. - Avoid the symbolic translation of ia64 unity-mapped region 7 kernel virtual addresses as they are displayed by the \"bt -r\" and \"rd -[sS]\" commands. - Remove redundant storage of \"swapper_pg_dir\" symbol value during x86 initialization. - Recognize the removal of the \"jiffies\" variable when running against newer versions of the xen hypervisor by indicating \"--:--:--\" next to the UPTIME display. - Fix to determine whether an x86 or x86_64 xen hypervisor was built with PERCPU_SHIFT value of 12 or 13.
* Mon Oct 06 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-7.2 o Fix for initialization-time failure when running against 2.6.27 x86_64 kernels, which indicate \"crash: cannot resolve: end_pfn\". o When an improper structure member offset or structure size is attempted, a partial crash backtrace is displayed in the ensuing error message. o Fix for LKCD kerntypes debuginfo files to use \"node_states\" when \"node_online_map\" is not in use. o Implement support for s390/s390x CONFIG_SPARSEMEM kernels. o Fix for \"kmem -[sS]\" when running against 2.6.27 CONFIG_SLUB kernels, in which the kmem_cache.objects and .order members were replaced by a kmem_cache_order_objects structure. o Increased the maximum number of SIAL commands from 100 to 200.- Remove crash-config-sparse.diff: Mainline.- Remove crash-config-sparse.diff: Mainline.
* Fri Sep 05 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Update crash-config-sparse.diff to match new upstream patch version that will be included in next upstream release (bnc#412894).
* Mon Aug 25 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- call \"/usr/bin/nm\" without -D first, and if that fails, use \"-D\".
* Mon Aug 25 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update \"/usr/bin/nm -d\" instead of \"/usr/bin/nm\" to display the backtrace because that works even if crash has been compiled without debug information (without -g)
* Tue Aug 19 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-7.1 o Fix to address RT kernel\'s renaming of the address_space.nrpages member to address_space.__nrpages o For crash utility debug backtraces displayed in error conditions, the usage of __builtin_return_address() has been replaced with the backtrace() function. o Fix for ia64 hypervisor backtraces when the entries in the cpu map are not contiguous. o Fix to make shell-escaped commands in a crash input file direct their output properly. o Fix to allow the usage of the \"-i inputfile\" command line option when operating from an init script. o Fix for the \"kmem -P
\" option, where
is an invalid physical address. o Fix for a potential endless cascade of SIGFPE exceptions during session initialization when a vmlinux and vmcore do not match, and a correct System.map or a non-debug vmlinux file is not supplied. o More gracefully handle a nonsensical \"search -u
\" command attempt on a kernel thread or any context with no user address space. o Reworked the \"search\" command for usage with the Xen Hypervisor. o Fix for initialization-time segmentation violation due to a module allocating and creating an exported symbol list outside of its own virtual address space, and then overwriting its own symbol list pointer. o Implementation of a \"--minimal\" command line option, which brings up a crash session that is restricted to the \"log\", \"dis\", \"rd\", \"sym\", \"eval\" and \"exit\" commands.- drop crash-builtin-return-addr: mainline- drop crash-rt-nrpages: mainline- drop crash-minimal-debugging.diff: mainline
* Fri Aug 15 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- minimal debugging support for corrupted dumps (FATE#304994)
* Thu Aug 14 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- fix CONFIG_SPARSEMEM kernels on s390x (bnc#412894) [IBM patch]
* Wed May 14 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- print the correct kernel image name in case automatic decompression is used
* Wed May 14 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- use the patch that went upstream for the bnc#389907 fix below (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.crash-dump.crash-utility/1148)
* Tue May 13 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- Fix \"crash\" crashes on SLERT crashdump when running \"kmem -i\" (bnc#389907) o Use backtrace() instead of __builtin_return_address() o Use address_space.__nrpages for RT kernel
* Wed Apr 30 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-6.3 o Support for Fedora FC9 kernels containing the linux-2.6.utrace.patch, which removes the task_struct.parent member. o Further scalability improvements to the \"search -k\" mechanisms. o Changed ppc64 manner of determining the number of cpus to first check the cpu_present_map o Fix/workaround for the ppc64 \"bt\" command on panic/active tasks when run against dumpfiles whose kernel had crashed with one or more cpus offline. o Added support for vtop translation of 1MB large pages available on new z10 (s390x) systems. o Prevent misleading init-time warning message for s390/s390x when verifying the vmlinux file with respect to the host machine type. o Minor documentation fix to crash.8 man page. o Support for running against an x86 xen-syms hypervisor binary based upon xen 3.1.2 or later. o Support for running against an x86_64 xen-syms hypervisor binary based upon xen 3.1.2 or later.
* Mon Mar 31 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-6.2 o Implemented a new \"rd -S\" option which, like the \"-s\" option. o Make the found address displayed by \"kmem -[sS]
\" be the address of the containing object if the
argument is offset from the beginning of the object. o Fix for \"kmem -[sS] [address]\" in 2.6.25 CONFIG_SLUB kernels. o Fix for \"kmem -[sS] \" in 2.6.25 CONFIG_SLUB kernels. o Fix for an initialization-time failure with Ubuntu kernels because of a mismatch between the /proc/version string and the linux_banner string. o Fix for the \"net\" command in 2.6.22 and later kernels. o For kernels configured with CONFIG_SLUB, \"kmem -S\" has been updated to properly differentiate whether a cache\'s \"full\" slabs are tracked but whose full list is empty, or whether the full slabs are not tracked at all. o Fix for the \"vm\" command when the crash session was invoked with the -s command line option. o Fix/workaround for the \"search -k\" command option on relocatable 2.6-era ia64 machines configured with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM.
* Wed Mar 05 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- crash-compressed-kernel: implement support for compressed kernel images (vmlinux.gz, not bzImage of course)
* Fri Feb 29 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-6.1 o Support for 2.6.25 x86_64 kernels o Fix for \"bt\" command when running on a live 2.6.25 x86 kernel o Fix for the \"timer\" command in 2.6.25 kernels. o Cosmetic change to the x86 \"bt\" command to recognize the entry point name change from \"sysenter_entry\" to \"ia32_sysenter_target\".
* Fri Feb 22 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-5.1 o Update \"ps -l\" to use task_struct.sched_info.last_arrival value on 2.6.23 and later kernels that don\'t have a task_struct.last_ran member. o Fix for potential initialization-time failure when running against 2.4-era x86 netdump dumpfiles o Fix to make the unused do_radix_tree() function work as advertised.- update to crash 4.0-5.0 o Fix for a potential segmentation violation during crash session initialization o Fix for the \"bt\" command when run on xen x86 dom0 dumpfiles o Initial support for OpenVZ kernels.
* Fri Feb 08 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- updated SIAL scripts to 2008-02-08 o fix problem on kernel-smp/x86_64 with ps.c
* Wed Feb 06 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- updated SIAL scripts to 2008-02-06- delete crash-sial-fix-files-script: upstream- delete crash-sial-ps-non-smp: upstream- delete crash-sial-scripts-fix-taskt_t: upstream
* Sat Feb 02 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- fix wrong access to .counter on non-SMP kernels in ps.c SIAL sample script (bnc#355982)
* Sat Jan 26 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- don\'t typedef task_t for kernels below 2.6.18 (bnc#355982)
* Fri Jan 11 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-4.13 o improve error message when trying to open a dump of another architecture/endianess o update for \"kmem -V\" option o Implemented a new \"kmem -z\" option to display per-zone memory statistics o Fix for the RSS amounts displayed by the \"ps\" and \"vm\" commands on 2.6 kernels prior to 2.6.13. o Fix for the x86 \"bt\" command when running a version of crash built on a pre-2.6.20 host against a 2.6.20 or later dumpfile, or when running a version of crash build on a 2.6.20 or later host against a pre-2.6.20 dumpfile o Fix for FC8 xen x86 kernels (2.6.21-2952.fc8xen) o Set a default \"phys_base\" value for recent fully-virtualized relocatable x86_64 kernels whose text start address is not equal to the __START_KERNEL_map value. o Debug: implemented a new \"--active\" crash command line option o Debug: \"help -n\" formats and displays ASCII VMCOREINFO data- removed crash-search-also-in-lib-crash (fixed mainline)
* Wed Jan 09 2008 bwalleAATTsuse.de- fix different initialisation of jiffies on SLES9 (352836)
* Fri Dec 21 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- improve error handling when target architecture doesn\'t match host architecture (345517)
* Sun Dec 16 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- split crash_whitepaper into crash-doc subpackage
* Wed Dec 12 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-4.12 o Fix \"kmem -n\" command to handle the 2.6.24 kernel changes o Fix for \"kmem -p\" on 2.6.24 x86_64 kernels that are configured with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP o Fix for \"dev\" command\'s character device name string output to recognize the change of the name structure member from a pointer to an embedded string. o Fix for the \"kmem -[sS]\" command to handle the 2.6.24 change to the CONFIG_SLUB kmem_cache structure o Fix for \"kmem -[fF]\" command to handle the 2.6.24 kernel change of the free_area struct o Fix for the \"runq\" command to handle the 2.6.24 kernel change to the CFS scheduler
* Thu Dec 06 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-4.11 o Fix for task-gathering to handle the 2.6.24 pid_namespace- related changes to the kernel pid_hash array. o Fix for \"kmem -f
\" and \"kmem
\" commands on x86 kernels, which may incorrectly indicate that the address is in the kernel\'s free page list. o Fix for x86 \"bt\" command for active tasks in Egenera dumpfiles based upon LKCD version 7. o Fix for a potential segmentation violation during crash session initialization if a task\'s kernel stack has been completely overrun o 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.
* Fri Nov 30 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- fixed file.c SIAL script for linux 2.6.22 and later- removed spu.c from SIAL package since this was not a SIAL script but an extension module
* Mon Nov 26 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-4.10 o Fix a regression introduced in 4.0-4.9 that causes the \"kmem -p\" command to fail in SPARSEMEM kernels that that have the struct page.index member embedded in an anonymous union
* Wed Nov 21 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- dropped crash-lkcd-use-kernel-start-address.patch, crash-fixed-uninitialised-mainline, crash-fix-sial-warnings, crash-fix-echo-extension: merged mainline- update to crash 4.0-4.9 o Fix for the \"kmem -p\" command in kernels configured with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM o Fix for the \"kmem -p\" command output of MAPPING and INDEX values on kernels where the mapping and index members of the page structure are contained within anonymous unions. o Fix for the \"mod\" command to search for module object files in the /lib/modules//updates directory tree before looking in /lib/modules/. o Fix for the \"waitq\" command for 2.6.15-era and later kernels o SIAL interpreter fix for an \"operation on \'v1\' may be undefined\" warning o Fix for several unpredictable failure modes when attempting \"crash -h [command] > outputfile\" from a shell command line. o Addressed several compiler warnings o Fix for \"kmem -p\" on i386 CONFIG_SPARSEMEM kernels with greater than 4GB of memory o Fix to redirect SIAL script command output to pipes, files, etc., in the same manner as native crash commands. o Fix for ppc64 kernels with 64K pages whose PTE_RPN_SHIFT has changed from 32 to 30. o Fix for \"kmem -s\" if a slab cache whose name string cannot be read is encountered. o Fix for x86-64 SPARSEMEM kernels with CONFIG_NUMA off. o Fix to use the ia64 physical start address from the LKCD dump header instead of the default value. o For s390[x] kernels the page table allocation method will be changed such that instead of 3 levels, it will be now possible to allocate 4 levels. o Fix for LKCD dumpfile access failures that abort() the crash session after displaying an error message indicating a problem with physical memory zones in the dumpfile.
* Fri Nov 09 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- load extension modules also when the \".so\" suffix is not provided
* Fri Nov 09 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- fix compile warnings in the echo (sample) extension
* Fri Nov 09 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- build all files with RPM_OPT_FLAGS- fix compiler warnings
* Tue Oct 30 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-4.8 o support for kernels configured with CONFIG_SLUB o SIAL interpreter extension module has been updated to support the ia64, ppc64, s390 and s390x architectures. o Fixed a bug in the CONFIG_SPARSEMEM patch o Fixed the \"mach\" command in CONFIG_SLUB kernels o Fix for missing NODE header o Fix for the chronology of the contents of the kernel message buffer output by the \"log\" command. o Display a WARNING message if a PT_LOAD segment in an ELF-style dumpfile advertises a memory segment that would go beyond the end of the dumpfile.- set maximum number of CPUs to 4096 to sync with upstream (dropping crash-ia64-increase-nr-cpu)- crash-fetch-registers-from-lkcd.patch, crash-check-filesize, crash-sial-fix-ia64: dropped (now mainline)
* Tue Oct 30 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- crash-fix-other-lkcd-versions: fix for crash-fetch-registers-from-lkcd.patch for older LKCD versions
* Sat Oct 27 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- move sial.so to /usr/lib{,64} (because of shared library policy)- add /usr/lib{,64} to the search path for the \"extend\" command
* Mon Oct 22 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- fix warnings in crash-lkcd-use-kernel-start-address.patch, crash-ia64-increase-nr-cpu, crash-fetch-registers-from-lkcd.patch (found by \"make warn\")
* Thu Oct 18 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- increase NR_CPUS to 16384 (BZ #334609, FATE #302671)
* Wed Sep 26 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- fix SIAL build on ia64- build SIAL extension only on i386, x86_64 and ia64
* Tue Sep 25 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-4.7 o Incorporation of Luc Chouinard\'s SIAL interpreter o Removed hardwired-dependencies in the top-level and extensions subdirectory Makefiles for building extension modules o When a 32-bit x86 xenU guest is run on an x86_64 dom0 host, the new-style xen ELF format dumpfile contains an ELF header with an e_machine type of EM_X86_64 (instead of EM_386) o Enhanced the \"kmem
\" option o Fix for determining starting rip/rsp backtrace hooks for the panic task in x86_64 xen dom0 kdumps o Fix for ia64 LKCD dumpfiles o Fix for potential \"mod -[sS]\" failures o Fix to prevent dumpfile reads beyond EOF when reading new (optimized) xen ELF core xendumps. o Fix in x86_xen_kdump_p2m_create() when debug level was equal to or larger than 7- added sial subpackage for the SIAL extension
* Tue Sep 25 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- crash-check-filesize: Added patch that checks the size of the vmcore file and prints a clear error message (#326558)
* Tue Sep 25 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- crash-fetch-registers-from-lkcd.patch: remove debugging output
* Mon Sep 03 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- fetch LKCD registers for ESP/EIP instead of guessing on the stack (#266841)- crash-sles9-quirk.patch: rewrite based on the previous patch
* Thu Aug 30 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- don\'t use a macro for the version tag, instead get the major and minor version for the tarball from the version tag itself
* Mon Aug 27 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-4.6 o Implemented the \"runq\" command for 2.6.20 and later kernels that have replaced the O(1) scheduler with the CFS scheduler. o kerntypes support: added a new \"-k\" command line option that allows the usage of standard -g compiled LKCD Kerntypes files. o Update of \"xencrash\" support to properly handle dom0/hypervisor kdumps taken under xen version 3.1 in addition to those taken under xen 3.0.x.
* Fri Jul 27 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-4.5 o Addresses FC7/upstream x86 kernels that have been configured such that the vmlinux symbol values do not match their relocated values when loaded. o Fix for x86 2.6.22 kernel initialization-time failure indicating: \"crash: invalid size request: 0 type: __per_cpu_offset\" o Fix to recognize the 2.6.22 kernel\'s replacement of kmalloc slab subsystem o fix for the LKCD kerntypes support which addresses error during during initialization on 2.6.22 kernels: \"WARNING: cannot determine pgdat list for this kernel/architecture\".
* Sat Jul 21 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash-4.0-4.4 o Fix for kernels in which the irq_desc_t typedef is not included in the vmlinux debuginfo data, o Implemented new \"irq -u\" option that displays only in-use IRQs o Prevent occasional 99% cpu usage waiting for the built-in less o Implemented support for the use of \"kerntypes\" debuginfo files o Fixes, code improvement and cleanup for \"crash -h [command]\" o New CRASHPAGER environment variable to set the pager. o Updated crash(8) man page.
* Thu Jul 05 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- use the load address of the kernel from the LKCD header on IA64 instead of the default (#282475)
* Fri Jun 22 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-4.3 o Fix for \"kmem -f\" command on 2.6.17 and later CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM kernels o Fix for segmentation violation when using the wrong vmlinux file command line argument on a live system on either the x86_64 or ia64 architectures. o For all 4 types of input-file processing If a command in the input file encounters a FATAL error, the remainder of the commands will be executed.
* Mon Jun 04 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-4.2 o Fix for support of 2.6.22 kernels o Fix to account for the number of pgdata nodes being less than the number of cpus. o Implemented support for ia64 dom0/HV kdump dumpfile support o Created a \"--no_panic\" command line option o Implmented a new \"ps -r\" option o Implement support for the registration of CLEANUP extension commands o Implemented a new symbol_value_module() primitive- Split into main package and devel package. The devel package contains the defs.h file that is required to build extensions for crash.
* Fri Apr 27 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-4.1 o Implemented dependable backtraces for the x86_64 architecture. o Fix for s390 and s390x backtrace commands to recognize the kernel structure name change from \"runqueue\" to \"rq\". o Merged fourth round of \"xencrash\" patches
* Tue Apr 10 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.22 o support for 2.6.20 \"__bug_table\" o Fix for the x86 backtrace code to recognize the encoded filename and line number information o Added preparations for an upcoming version update to kdump\'s associated makedumpfile utility o Implemented \"help -n\" debug output function for compressed diskdump and compressed kdump dumpfiles. o improved output for \"help -n\" if dump_level exists o Support for xendumps of fully-virtualized x86_64 relocatable kernels. o Fix for 4.0-3.21 \"BOOKE\" ppc.c patch
* Thu Mar 29 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- added ncurses-devel to BuildRequires to provide termcap- added zlib-devel to BuildRequires
* Mon Mar 19 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.21 o Introduced support for upstream xensource ELF format dumpfiles o \"xencrash\" fixes o Fix for \"vtop\" on x86 PAE kernels o Fix for \"vm -p\" or \"vtop\" on 2.6 x86 PAE kernels o Fix for \"vm -p\" on x86_64 kernels o In current 2.6 kernels, it is now possible to recognize ppc BOOKE processors o Fix for live system analysis of Ubuntu kernels o Fix for 2.6.21 kernels that fail during initialization with the message: \"crash: invalid (optional) structure member offsets:
* Wed Feb 21 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.19 o merged third round of \"xencrash\" patches o verified support of live system analysis of ia64 xen kernels o added gdb\'s \"shell\" command to the prohibited gdb command list o fix for the x86 \"bt\" command for the 2.6.20 kernel o fix for the \"mount\" command for the 2.6.20 kernel o fix for the \"files\" command for the 2.6.20 kernel o fix for the \"net -[sS]\" command options for the 2.6.20 kernel o fix for the \"vm\" command for the 2.6.20 kernel o fix for the \"swap\" command for the 2.6.20 kernel
* Wed Feb 07 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.19 o Fix for support of paravirtual x86 xendumps under special circumstances o Fix for the \"kmem -p [page-struct-address]\" command construct o Added a new \"struct -u\" option o Added new \"rd -f\" and \"struct -f\" options o Cosmetic fix to prevent double-printing of \"kmem -p\" and \"kmem -v\" headers
* Fri Feb 02 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.18 o enhancement to the \"mod\" command to expand the number of section arguments to the internal \"add-symbol-file\" o speed up the initialization of crash sessions when running against multi-gigabyte xen kernels o Fix for a segmentation violation o Cosmetic fix to prepend newlines o Addressed several compiler warnings o Fix for the s390x \"bt -f\" command option
* Tue Jan 30 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- added documentation from webpage (\"Crash Whitepaper\")- added README.SUSE- disabled s390 patch because it\'s unnecessary (structure is exported by kernel headers)
* Tue Jan 30 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- make Emacs the default editing mode
* Wed Jan 17 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- fixed compile warnings that results in ERROR in autobuild
* Tue Jan 16 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- added RPM_OPT_FLAGS- fixed some compile warnings
* Mon Jan 15 2007 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.17 o fixes for \"dev -p\" command option o fix to recognize \"linux_banner\" symbol type change in 2.6.20-rc2 kernels o fix to recognize \"__per_cpu_start\" and \"__per_cpu_end\" symbol in relocatable kernels o fix for the xencrash \"dumpinfo -t\" command o fix for x86_64 backtraces that may end prematurely o fix for a possible empty panic message in 2.6 kernels- added patch that fixes the problem on IA64 that the CONFIG_NR_CPU must be the same in crash and in the kernel which created the dump when reading lkcd dump files (related to #208972)
* Fri Dec 22 2006 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.16 o Recognize new XC_CORE_MAGIC_HVM xendump magic number o Recognize an INVALID_MFN marker in the indexed mfn list of a xendump
* Wed Dec 20 2006 bwalleAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.15 o Introduced support for xendumps o Additional support for the current kexec/kdump patch for Xen o Turn off the LKCD dumpfile-access o Update to MODULES_IN_CWD code segment o Support LKCD \"map\" files in lieu of standard System.map o The ia64 PR_UNALIGN_NOPRINT and PR_FPEMU_NOPRINT prctl commands have been moved earlier in time, in order to prevent \"unaligned access\" messages when accessing ELF header contents. o The dlopen() call used by the \"extensions\" facility has been changed to use the RTLD_GLOBAL flag messages when accessing ELF header contents. o The dlopen() call used by the \"extensions\" facility has been changed to use the RTLD_GLOBAL flag
* Fri Dec 08 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.14 handle pseudo task on ia64 after INIT or MCA handle per_cpu_
* variables more x86_64 dwarf CFI changes recognizes memory holes in the sys command merge some xencrash changes
* Fri Nov 03 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.9 fix x86_64 irq stack handling fix ia64 DISCONTIGMEM handling more struct command updates
* Mon Oct 23 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.8 fix irq command for post 2.6.17 kernels optionally use dwarf unwind data on x86_64 fix struct -o command when member is a function pointer
* Fri Oct 13 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.7 fix accessing user space stack addresses in ia64 kernels Implemented a new \"sig -g\" option allow the entry of multiple \"list -s struct.member\" arguments
* Mon Oct 02 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.5 new ps -e and ps -g command, timer command fix
* Tue Sep 19 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.4 support for x86_64 and ia64 compressed kdump dumpfiles fix \"timer\" command on 2.6.17 and later kernels more ia64 and sig command fixes
* Fri Sep 08 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.3 kmem and sig cmd updates support for relocatable x86_64 kernels many other fixes
* Fri Aug 18 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-3.1 4-level pagetable support for ia64 new \"--cpus \" cmdline option read HZ and NR_CPUS from in-kernel CONFIG_IKCONFIG
* Thu Jul 20 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- update to crash 4.0-2.33 handle runqueue struct change in 2.6.18 (192053 - LTC25200;189227 - LTC24353)
* Thu Jun 01 2006 tiwaiAATTsuse.de- Add a warning message when /proc/version doesn\'t match (#169708)- Don\'t remove build-root at install
* Tue Apr 18 2006 masonAATTsuse.de- Update to crash 4.0-2.23 Fix kmem -s (bug 159651) More xen support
* Mon Mar 27 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- Update to crash 4.0-2.22 some xen support
* Wed Mar 22 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- update sparsemem patch for all archs
* Tue Mar 21 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- apply sparsemem patch only on ppc64 for the time being
* Mon Mar 20 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- add sparsemem support (149714 - LTC21350)
* Mon Mar 13 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- more ppc64, handle NR_CPUS mismatch
* Sun Mar 12 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- more ppc64, handle poisoned per_cpu data
* Wed Mar 01 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- more ppc64, but still not there build as non-root, build faster
* Tue Feb 28 2006 olhAATTsuse.de- some ppc64 updates (149714 - LTC21350)
* Sat Feb 11 2006 masonAATTsuse.de- Update to crash 4.0-2.20 (better fix for x86-64 cpu pda structs)
* Mon Jan 30 2006 mlsAATTsuse.de- converted neededforbuild to BuildRequires
* Mon Jan 30 2006 masonAATTsuse.de- Update for new x86-64 cpu pda structs
* Mon Jan 16 2006 masonAATTsuse.de- Fix %setup
* Mon Jan 16 2006 kukukAATTsuse.de- Fix %setup
* Mon Jan 09 2006 masonAATTsuse.de- fix build errors on s390
* Mon Jan 09 2006 masonAATTsuse.de- update va_server.c to build on ia64
  
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