File crash.changes of Package crash
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Fri Jan 23 19:18:36 CET 2009 - bwalle@suse.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.
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Wed Nov 26 18:28:49 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.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).
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Wed Nov 12 11:20:34 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- Increase NR_CPUs on x86_64 to 4096 (FATE#304266).
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Tue Nov 11 11:30:43 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- Don't fail to start when no namelist (kernel) is specified on the
command line and live debugging (/dev/mem) is used.
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Mon Nov 10 15:07:38 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- Advise the user to use 'crosscrash' if he tries to open dumps
from different machines (FATE #302896).
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Thu Nov 06 18:32:05 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.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.
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Thu Nov 06 10:46:07 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- Fix segmentation fault while executing crash command without any
parameter (bnc#441818).
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Sat Oct 25 17:40:05 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.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.
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Tue Oct 21 15:16:46 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- SIAL extension: bitfield handling fixup.
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Thu Oct 16 17:05:51 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- Require /usr/bin/nm.
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Tue Oct 14 17:34:56 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.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.
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Sat Oct 11 20:28:43 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- Fix build on non-Xen architectures (s390/s390x and ppc64).
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Sat Oct 11 19:47:43 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.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.
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Mon Oct 06 18:10:45 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.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.
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Fri Sep 05 16:57:34 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- Update crash-config-sparse.diff to match new upstream patch
version that will be included in next upstream release
(bnc#412894).
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Mon Aug 25 17:03:04 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- call "/usr/bin/nm" without -D first, and if that fails, use "-D".
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Mon Aug 25 13:38:02 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.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)
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Tue Aug 19 18:30:18 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.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 <address>" option, where <address> 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 <address>"
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
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Fri Aug 15 10:36:35 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- minimal debugging support for corrupted dumps (FATE#304994)
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Thu Aug 14 17:04:24 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- fix CONFIG_SPARSEMEM kernels on s390x (bnc#412894) [IBM patch]
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Wed May 14 22:59:37 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- print the correct kernel image name in case automatic
decompression is used
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Wed May 14 20:29:05 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.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)
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Tue May 13 20:31:21 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.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
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Wed Apr 30 18:32:14 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.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.
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Mon Mar 31 19:49:26 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.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] <address>" be
the address of the containing object if the <address> 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] <slab-address>" 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.
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Wed Mar 5 10:10:01 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- crash-compressed-kernel: implement support for compressed kernel
images (vmlinux.gz, not bzImage of course)
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Fri Feb 29 20:22:51 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.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".
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Fri Feb 22 16:51:00 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.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.
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Fri Feb 8 19:02:51 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- updated SIAL scripts to 2008-02-08
o fix problem on kernel-smp/x86_64 with ps.c
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Wed Feb 6 16:35:55 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.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
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Sat Feb 2 19:01:26 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- fix wrong access to .counter on non-SMP kernels in ps.c SIAL
sample script (bnc#355982)
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Sat Jan 26 12:45:42 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- don't typedef task_t for kernels below 2.6.18 (bnc#355982)
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Fri Jan 11 20:55:10 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.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)
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Wed Jan 9 16:25:50 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de
- fix different initialisation of jiffies on SLES9 (352836)
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Fri Dec 21 12:14:58 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- improve error handling when target architecture doesn't match
host architecture (345517)
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Sun Dec 16 13:20:32 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- split crash_whitepaper into crash-doc subpackage
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Wed Dec 12 22:43:18 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.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
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Thu Dec 6 17:16:06 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.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 <address>" and "kmem <address>" 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.
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Fri Nov 30 14:56:34 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.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
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Mon Nov 26 15:27:01 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.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
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Wed Nov 21 10:07:38 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.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/<release>/updates directory tree before
looking in /lib/modules/<release>.
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.
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Fri Nov 9 23:39:07 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- load extension modules also when the ".so" suffix is not provided
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Fri Nov 9 22:43:58 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- fix compile warnings in the echo (sample) extension
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Fri Nov 9 20:01:31 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- build all files with RPM_OPT_FLAGS
- fix compiler warnings
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Tue Oct 30 21:52:19 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.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)
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Tue Oct 30 14:32:05 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- crash-fix-other-lkcd-versions: fix for
crash-fetch-registers-from-lkcd.patch for older LKCD versions
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Sat Oct 27 10:39:01 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.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
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Mon Oct 22 15:54:00 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.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")
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Thu Oct 18 19:03:19 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- increase NR_CPUS to 16384 (BZ #334609, FATE #302671)
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Wed Sep 26 15:36:26 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- fix SIAL build on ia64
- build SIAL extension only on i386, x86_64 and ia64
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Tue Sep 25 22:14:19 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.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 <address>" 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
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Tue Sep 25 15:51:12 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- crash-check-filesize: Added patch that checks the size of the
vmcore file and prints a clear error message (#326558)
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Tue Sep 25 15:20:13 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- crash-fetch-registers-from-lkcd.patch: remove debugging output
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Mon Sep 3 16:43:16 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- fetch LKCD registers for ESP/EIP instead of guessing on the
stack (#266841)
- crash-sles9-quirk.patch: rewrite based on the previous patch
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Thu Aug 30 12:49:20 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.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
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Mon Aug 27 21:39:41 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.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.
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Fri Jul 27 22:51:41 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.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".
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Sat Jul 21 11:13:05 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.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.
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Thu Jul 5 18:54:11 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- use the load address of the kernel from the LKCD header on
IA64 instead of the default (#282475)
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Fri Jun 22 22:06:07 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.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.
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Mon Jun 4 22:10:46 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.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.
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Fri Apr 27 18:31:19 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.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
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Wed Apr 11 00:15:55 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.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
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Thu Mar 29 10:11:42 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- added ncurses-devel to BuildRequires to provide termcap
- added zlib-devel to BuildRequires
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Mon Mar 19 11:20:43 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.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:
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Wed Feb 21 23:32:08 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.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
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Wed Feb 7 21:07:14 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.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
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Fri Feb 2 01:12:23 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.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
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Tue Jan 30 16:28:25 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- added documentation from webpage ("Crash Whitepaper")
- added README.SUSE
- disabled s390 patch because it's unnecessary (structure is
exported by kernel headers)
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Tue Jan 30 01:17:02 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- make Emacs the default editing mode
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Wed Jan 17 11:43:39 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- fixed compile warnings that results in ERROR in autobuild
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Tue Jan 16 20:35:16 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de
- added RPM_OPT_FLAGS
- fixed some compile warnings
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Mon Jan 15 11:09:40 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.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)
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Fri Dec 22 11:53:49 CET 2006 - bwalle@suse.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
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Wed Dec 20 16:50:46 CET 2006 - bwalle@suse.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
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Fri Dec 8 17:03:15 CET 2006 - olh@suse.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
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Fri Nov 3 10:54:05 CET 2006 - olh@suse.de
- update to crash 4.0-3.9
fix x86_64 irq stack handling
fix ia64 DISCONTIGMEM handling
more struct command updates
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Mon Oct 23 13:41:28 CEST 2006 - olh@suse.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
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Fri Oct 13 12:48:48 CEST 2006 - olh@suse.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
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Mon Oct 2 21:26:32 CEST 2006 - olh@suse.de
- update to crash 4.0-3.5
new ps -e and ps -g command, timer command fix
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Tue Sep 19 21:44:38 CEST 2006 - olh@suse.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
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Fri Sep 8 15:38:13 CEST 2006 - olh@suse.de
- update to crash 4.0-3.3
kmem and sig cmd updates
support for relocatable x86_64 kernels
many other fixes
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Fri Aug 18 21:06:42 CEST 2006 - olh@suse.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
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Thu Jul 20 18:27:42 CEST 2006 - olh@suse.de
- update to crash 4.0-2.33
handle runqueue struct change in 2.6.18
(192053 - LTC25200;189227 - LTC24353)
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Thu Jun 1 18:29:55 CEST 2006 - tiwai@suse.de
- Add a warning message when /proc/version doesn't match
(#169708)
- Don't remove build-root at install
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Tue Apr 18 03:31:09 CEST 2006 - mason@suse.de
- Update to crash 4.0-2.23
Fix kmem -s (bug 159651)
More xen support
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Mon Mar 27 15:03:13 CEST 2006 - olh@suse.de
- Update to crash 4.0-2.22
some xen support
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Wed Mar 22 13:42:02 CET 2006 - olh@suse.de
- update sparsemem patch for all archs
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Tue Mar 21 09:05:50 CET 2006 - olh@suse.de
- apply sparsemem patch only on ppc64 for the time being
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Mon Mar 20 08:53:28 CET 2006 - olh@suse.de
- add sparsemem support (149714 - LTC21350)
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Mon Mar 13 14:05:44 CET 2006 - olh@suse.de
- more ppc64, handle NR_CPUS mismatch
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Sun Mar 12 21:38:20 CET 2006 - olh@suse.de
- more ppc64, handle poisoned per_cpu data
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Wed Mar 1 13:30:31 CET 2006 - olh@suse.de
- more ppc64, but still not there
build as non-root, build faster
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Wed Mar 1 00:01:48 CET 2006 - olh@suse.de
- some ppc64 updates (149714 - LTC21350)
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Sat Feb 11 20:11:47 CET 2006 - mason@suse.de
- Update to crash 4.0-2.20 (better fix for x86-64 cpu pda structs)
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Mon Jan 30 23:38:36 CET 2006 - mls@suse.de
- converted neededforbuild to BuildRequires
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Mon Jan 30 22:05:58 CET 2006 - mason@suse.de
- Update for new x86-64 cpu pda structs
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Mon Jan 16 21:20:12 CET 2006 - mason@suse.de
- Fix %setup
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Mon Jan 16 14:22:09 CET 2006 - kukuk@suse.de
- Fix %setup
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Mon Jan 9 15:46:07 CET 2006 - mason@suse.de
- fix build errors on s390
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Mon Jan 9 02:47:56 CET 2006 - mason@suse.de
- update va_server.c to build on ia64
