Feature update for kdump and crash
SUSE Feature Update: Feature update for kdump and crash
This update provides support for LZO compressed kdump files.
In addition, crash has been updated to 6.0.7 which includes
the following enhancements:
* Enhanced the search command to allow the searched-for
value to be entered as a crash (expression) or a kernel
symbol name
* Added a new "search -t" option that will restrict the
search to the kernel stack pages of all tasks.
* Fix for the s390x "bt -[tT]" options when run on an
active task on a live system
* Fix for s390x "vm -p" option, which may show invalid
user to physical address translation data if a page is not
mapped.
* 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.
* 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.
* Add support to for reading dumpfiles compressed by
LZO using makedumpfile version 1.4.4 or later.
* Added a new "printm" command to the embedded gdb
module
* Added a new "runq -t" option that displays the
timestamp information 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.
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-FU-2012:1459-1 |
| Rating: | low |
| References: | #761624 #765379 #784913 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that has three feature fixes can now be installed. It includes two new package versions.
Description:
This update provides support for LZO compressed kdump files.
In addition, crash has been updated to 6.0.7 which includes
the following enhancements:
* Enhanced the search command to allow the searched-for
value to be entered as a crash (expression) or a kernel
symbol name
* Added a new "search -t" option that will restrict the
search to the kernel stack pages of all tasks.
* Fix for the s390x "bt -[tT]" options when run on an
active task on a live system
* Fix for s390x "vm -p" option, which may show invalid
user to physical address translation data if a page is not
mapped.
* 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.
* 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.
* Add support to for reading dumpfiles compressed by
LZO using makedumpfile version 1.4.4 or later.
* Added a new "printm" command to the embedded gdb
module
* Added a new "runq -t" option that displays the
timestamp information 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.
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Feature Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2:
zypper in -t patch sdksp2-kdump-lzo-support-7006 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware:
zypper in -t patch slessp2-kdump-lzo-support-7006 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2:
zypper in -t patch slessp2-kdump-lzo-support-7006 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2:
zypper in -t patch sledsp2-kdump-lzo-support-7006
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 6.0.7]:
- crash-devel-6.0.7-0.5.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 1.4.4 and 6.0.7]:
- crash-6.0.7-0.5.1
- makedumpfile-1.4.4-0.7.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 1.4.4 and 6.0.7]:
- crash-6.0.7-0.5.1
- crash-sial-6.0.7-0.5.1
- kdump-0.7.8-1.33.40.3
- makedumpfile-1.4.4-0.7.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 1.4.4 and 6.0.7]:
- crash-6.0.7-0.5.1
- crash-sial-6.0.7-0.5.1
- makedumpfile-1.4.4-0.7.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 x86_64):
- kdump-0.7.8-1.33.40.3
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 1.4.4]:
- kdump-0.7.8-1.33.40.3
- makedumpfile-1.4.4-0.7.1
References:
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/761624
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/765379
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/784913
- http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=83f0e8afdc8e7c22b219e72021cf26d2