Changelog
crash (4.1.0-1ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low
* Merge from debian testing, remaining changes:
- debian/patches/01_spu_commands.dpatch
+ Provides SPU extension support
- debian/rules:
+ Patch support
+ Enable SPU on PPC
+ Don't remove gdb-6.1.
- debian/control:
+ Enable LPIA builds.
+ Build depend on dpatch.
crash (4.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream version 4.1.0 (see
http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog)
- Fix s390x & x86 "extend" command regression created by the "crash -x"
option introduced in crash version 4.0.9.
- Clean up source to remove compiler warnings in Fedora
- Fix for "pte" command on s390 and s390x machines if the pte value argument
evaluates as not present
- Allow command redirection to pipes or files when using gdb commands alone
on the command line without preceding the command string with "gdb".
- Fix for the processing of bit fields on big endian systems in the SIAL
extension module.
- Fix for "dis -l" to properly display line-number information for 2.6.21
and later x86_64 kernel module text addresses.
- Fix to prevent querying the embedded gdb module for line numbers of kernel
module text addresses if the module's debuginfo data has not been loaded.
- Implemented a new "ps -G" option, which restricts the process status
output to show only the data of the thread group leader of a thread group.
- Several fixes for the "repeat" command when used in conjunction with an
input file.
- Added "trace" to the extension
- 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.
- Fix for a potential session initialization failure on x86_64 kernels if
the dumpfile has pages excluded by the makedumpfile facility.
- Fix for "kmem -z" option on 2.6.29 and later kernels.
- Fix for "irq" command on 2.6.29 and later CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ kernels.
- Fix for the "kmem -i" option on 2.6.31 kernels.
- Fix for the "kmem -i" option on 2.6.26 through 2.6.30 x86_64 kernels.
- Fix for "kmem -p" option on older 64-bit kernels that have a 32-bit
page.flags field.
- Fix for "kmem -i" option on older kernels whose unreferenced page.count
value was -1 (instead of 0).
- Change the cursor location when cycling through the command history when
in "vi" editing mode (the default).
crash (4.0.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream version 4.0.9 (see
http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog)
- New versioning format such that the upstream version no longe rcontains
the "-" in the version number.
- backport of the x86/x86_64 disassembly code from gdb-6.8 to the embedded
gdb-6.1.
- Fix compressed diskdump/kdump vmcores to work with page descriptor
structure that are beyond 4GB offsets in the vmcore file.
- Fix for multipal x86_64 bt command issues
- Fix for usage of System.map argument with kernels >= 2.6.30.
- Fix for usage of System.map that does not contaon an "_end" symbol.
- Fix for "kmem -p <addr>" or "kmem <addr>" options when <addr> is not a
page struct address.
- Fix for the snap.so extension to work on < 2.6.12 kernels with more than
4GB physical memory.
- Fix how extensions are built, for example give a proper error message is
the host does not have the build deps for the extension module, but still
allow crash to build.
- RHEL_4 fix for "rd" and "vtop" command on x86_64 Xen kernels.
crash (4.0-8.11-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream version 4.0-8.11 (see
http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog)
- Fix backtrace when offline CPUs doe not have NT_PRSTATUS notes
- Fix "dev" command for 2.6.26 later kernels.
- Fix segfaul when running "foreach bt" on active live system.
- Fix to read LKCD V8 x86 dumpfile headers
- Fix bt when NMI was issued ot non-crashing amd64 CPU.
- Fix bt on amd64 when transitioning from the IRQ stack back to the process
stack on >= 2.6.29 kernels.
- Enhance "runq" to show current task in each cpu's runqueue.
- Fix mem leak when running on live systems.
- Support dwarf 3 vmlinux debuginfo format
- Allow any order for system map and compressed vmlinux file on the cmd
line.
- Fix seg fault when vmcore and system map do not match
- Adjust virt and phys memory definitions for >= 2.6.31
- Fix for "kmem -[sS]" when using CONFIG_SLUB and there is an invalid link.
-- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:32:39 +0100
