[Crash-utility] latest crash-killer in 2.6.17-rc2

[Badari Pulavarty]

Dave Anderson wrote:

>  
> changes the pid_hash chain from:
>
>   static struct hlist_head *pid_hash[PIDTYPE_MAX];
>
> to:
>
>   static struct hlist_head *pid_hash;
>
> The pid_hash infrastructure is what the crash utility
> uses to gather the set of running tasks during initialization.
> The change above breaks it, and crash will fail with an
> error message stating:
>
>   crash: cannot determine pid_hash array dimensions
>
> As the PID handling has changed over the years, there have
> been several task-gathering functions in crash, the latest
> of which is refresh_hlist_task_table().  I don't know whether
> it will be possible to shoe-horn the new scheme to fit this
> current crash function, or whether yet another new one will
> have to be written.  If it's the latter, it may take a while...
>

Well, its not the only one we need to deal with on 2.6.17-rc2  :(

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crash: cannot resolve: "pgdat_list"