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Changelog for crash-kmp-default-7.0.2_k3.12.72_1-2.42.5.x86_64.rpm :
Fri Sep 13 14:00:00 2013 ptesarikAATTsuse.com
- crash-crosscrash-hint.diff: Removed, because crosscrash isn\'t
maintained any longer.

Thu Sep 12 14:00:00 2013 dmairAATTsuse.com
- Implementation of v7.0.2 from upstream.
o See http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html
for a complete list of changes from 6.1.3.
- crash-rl_digit_loop-return.patch - removed
- crash-missing-declarations.patch - refreshed
- crash-rl_digit_loop-return.patch - refreshed
- eppic-switch-to-system-lib.patch - refreshed

Fri May 10 14:00:00 2013 dmairAATTsuse.com
- Implementation of v6.1.3 from upstream.
crash-display-date-fix.patch - removed/redundant
crash-kmem_cache_slab.patch - removed/redundant
crash-siginfo.patch - removed/redundant
crash-var_length_log_rec.patch - removed/redundant
eppic-switch-to-system-lib.patch - Implementation of EPPIC via
system library rather than retrieve and include in build. Added
eppic constants to spec file without removing the sial constants
for now.
crash-crosscrash-hint.diff - refreshed
crash-make-emacs-default.diff - refreshed
crash-sles9-time.patch - refreshed

Wed Feb 27 13:00:00 2013 cooloAATTsuse.com
- update license to new format

Mon Feb 4 13:00:00 2013 dmairAATTsuse.com
- Re-execution of 150764 by tabrahamAATTsuse.com to re-align patch
content, re-number patches for latest spec contents and to
remove some incidental content (e.g. whitespace insertion and
leftover comments of new lines). Comment from tabraham follows:
- added crash-display-date-fix.patch
This is a backport of the fix from crash-6.0.9 to fix the date
displayed by the initial system banner and by the \"sys\" command
for linux kernel 3.6 and later. Without the patch, the date
displayed will be that of the UNIX epoch adjusted to local time.
- added crash-kmem_cache_slab.patch
This is a backport of the fix from crash-6.1.0 for Linux 3.0 and
later kernels that have been configured with CONFIG_SLAB and with-
out CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT. Without the patch, the warning messages
\"crash: nr_node_ids: symbol does not exist\" and \"crash: unable to
initialize kmem slab cache subsystem\" are displayed during
initialization, and the \"kmem -[sS]\" options fail with the message
\"kmem: kmem cache slab subsystem not available\".

Mon Feb 4 13:00:00 2013 dmairAATTsuse.com
- crash-compressed-booted-kernel.patch: Fix for \"crash when invoked
without arguments fails to analyze the live system\" (bnc#777516).

Fri Jan 25 13:00:00 2013 tabrahamAATTsuse.com
- crash-var_length_log_rec.patch: support variable-length record
kernel log buffer present in kernel 3.5 and later (bnc#796151).

Sun Jul 29 14:00:00 2012 ajAATTsuse.de
- Fix build with glibc 2.16 (struct siginfo -> siginfo_t).

Tue Jul 17 14:00:00 2012 dmairAATTsuse.com
- Enabled support for reading dumpfiles compressed by LZO using
makedumpfile version 1.4.4 or later.

Fri Jun 1 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 2012 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz
- delete crash-foreach-match-running.patch: upstream

Mon May 14 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 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 \"
*
*
* stack smashing detected
*
*
*: 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 13:00:00 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 7 13:00:00 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 9 13:00:00 2012 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz
- crash-wrong-memset.patch: fix compilation on SLE11.

Thu Jan 5 13:00:00 2012 dmairAATTsuse.com
- Update to crash 6.0.2 from upstream and modifications to compile.

Tue Dec 27 13:00:00 2011 idonmezAATTsuse.com
- Fix wrong size parameter in memset call

Mon Nov 7 13:00:00 2011 dmairAATTsuse.com
- Update to crash 6.0.0 from upstream and modifications to compile.

Thu Oct 13 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 2011 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz
- Add Requires: kernel-$flavor to new-style KMP packages.
- Provide old-styl crash-kmp (for SLES9).

Mon Oct 10 14:00:00 2011 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz
- Build the crash memory driver kernel module as a KMP.

Mon Oct 10 14:00:00 2011 ptesarikAATTsuse.cz
- Change the license from GPLv3 (only) to GPLv3 or higher.

Thu Sep 22 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 2011 ptesarikAATTsuse.de
- Put correct licenses in the RPM header.

Fri Jun 10 14:00:00 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 9 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 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 7 13:00:00 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 3 13:00:00 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
\".

Mon Dec 13 13:00:00 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 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com
- crash-compressed-booted-kernel: correctly find the booted kernel
even if compressed (bnc#581159).

Tue Jun 22 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 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 1 14:00:00 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com
- crash-missing-declarations.patch: add a missing include (fixes
compilation on ppc64).

Mon Mar 29 14:00:00 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 13:00:00 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 13:00:00 2010 bernhardAATTbwalle.de
- Fix sps command from SIAL ps.c for kernel >= 2.6.29.

Tue Feb 23 13:00:00 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com
- crash-rl_digit_loop-return.patch: add the missing return to
the embedded readline.

Tue Feb 23 13:00:00 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 13:00:00 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com
- crash-large-xendump.patch: properly handle xendumps larger than
4GBs. (bnc#542170)

Fri Feb 12 13:00:00 2010 ptesarikAATTnovell.com
- crash-Makefile-ADD_CFLAGS: remove
Upstream has honoured the CFLAGS settings since 4.0-8.12.

Fri Feb 12 13:00:00 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 5 13:00:00 2010 jengelhAATTmedozas.de
- Construct an ExclusiveArch tag for specfile to match
source-code capabilities

Tue Jan 5 13:00:00 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 7 13:00:00 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 9 14:00:00 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 9 14:00:00 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 9 14:00:00 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 2 14:00:00 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 2 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 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.


  
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