Change logs for crash source package in Karmic

  • crash (4.0-8.9-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low
    
      * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes:
        - debian/patches/01_spu_commands.dpatch
          + Provides SPU extension support
        - debian/rules:
          + Patch support
          + Enable SPU on PPC
        - debian/control:
          + Enable LPIA builds.
          + Build depend on dpatch.
    
    crash (4.0-8.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
    
      * New upstream version 4.0-8.9 (see
        http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog)
      - New "bt -g" option, which will display the backtraces of all threads in
      the targeted task's thread group.
      - support for the kdump "split-dumpfile" format
      - 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.
      - Display warning when trying to bt active, non-crashing, xen dom0 tasks
      which are not available in kump dumpfile.
    
    crash (4.0-8.8-1) unstable; urgency=low
    
      * New upstream version 4.0-8.8 (see
        http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog)
        - Print warning with CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
        - Fix "bt" to prevent segfault with amd64, LKCD dump and corrupt active
        tasks.
        - Fix chronological order kernel ring buffer when it has been cleard via
        syslog() or klogctl().
        - Search /usr/lib[64]/crash/extensions for crash extenstions
        - Change how "bt" determines which idle task was interrupted by ia64
        INIT or MCA.
    
    crash (4.0-7.7-1) experimental; urgency=low
    
      * New upstream version 4.0-7.7 (see
        http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog)
        - Support dumps with different page size that the host system, ppc and
        ia64 support configurable page sizes.
        - Fix mod -s to support modules that have both - and _ in their names.
        - Reject s390 and s390x "L2^B" local label symbols from the kernel symbol
        list
        - Fix potential buffer overflow with "ps -l".
        - Fix "bt -a" to continue backtrace after hitting a fatal error
        - Only suource trusted versions of .crashrc and .gdbinit
        - Fix potential, but highly unlikely, buffer overflow in gdb dwarfread.c
        and dwarf2read.c.
        - Fix potential, but highly unlikely, integer overflow in the BDF library.
        - Enable stack undind on ia64 when using kerntypes file.
        - Fix failure of "files -R" command when an inode is unknown.
        - Allow LKCD kerntypes debuginfo file created form a module to be loaded
        with: "mod -s <module> <kerntypes-file>"
        - Increase NR_CPUS from 256 to 512 for x86-64 and 128 to 1024 for ppc64.
    
    crash (4.0-7.6-1) experimental; urgency=low
    
      * New upstream version 4.0-7.6 (see
        http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog)
      - Fix failure if the kernel was built without CONFIG_SWAP
      - Fix "bt" command on x86_64 kernels that contain the x86/x86_64 merger
      patch.
      - Fix infinite loop when using an input file, where more than one command in
      the input file results in a fatal error.
      - Clean up causes for warning messages when compiling with gcc 4.3.2.
      - Fix to prevent a segmentation violation during initialization when parsing
      (corrupted) module symbols.
      - Accept tasks with corrupted CPU fields.
      - Modification of "files" command to display open file descriports that have
      an NULL in the f_dentry field.
      -  Fix the "bt" command on x86 Xen architectures when the backtrace starts
      on the hard IRQ stack.
    
    crash (4.0-7.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
    
      * New upstream version 4.0-7.4 (see
        http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog)
      - Fix build regression for non-xen arches ppc64, s390 and s390x.
      - Fix for nonsensical user of the "set" command when running with the xen
      hypervisor.
      - Fix for "bt" command on x86 arch when the backtrace starts on the hard IRQ
      stack.
      - Fix for "search -k" on some ia64 hardware, depending on the underlying
      physical memory layout.
      - Fixes for the "bt" command when running with the xen hypervisor.
      - Remove "foreach" from the commands that won't work with the xen hypervisor
      - Fir "irq -d" on x86_64 xen kernels.
      - Avoid symbolicy translation of ia64 unity-mapped regin 7 kernel virtual
      addresses as they are displayed with "bt -r" and "rd -[sS]".
      - Remove redundatnt storage of "swapper_pg_dir" symbol value durnign x86
      initalization
      - Do not use "ifffies" when running with xen hypevisor
      - Fix to read correct PERCPU_SHIFT value with x86 and amd64 xen hypervisors.
    
     -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden>   Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:01:53 +0200
  • crash (4.0-7.2-1ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low
    
      * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes:
        - debian/patches/01_spu_commands.dpatch
          + Provides SPU extension support
        - debian/rules:
          + Patch support
          + Enable SPU on PPC
        - debian/control:
          + Enable LPIA builds.
          + Build depend on dpatch.
    
     -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden>   Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:04:16 -0600