----- "Bernhard Walle" <bernhard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Display "irqaction mask" only if available > > The member "mask" has been removed from "struct irqaction" in the > kernel per > > commit ef79f8e191722dbc1fc33bdfc448f572266c37e9 > Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu Sep 24 09:34:37 2009 -0600 > > cpumask: remove unused mask field from struct irqaction. > > Up until 1.1.83, the primitive human tribes used struct sigaction for > interrupts. The sa_mask field was overloaded to hold a pointer to the > name. > > When someone created the new "struct irqaction" they carried across > the "mask" field as a kind of ancestor worship: the fact that it was > unused makes clear its spiritual significance. > > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > This patch only displays the "irqaction mask" in the "irq" command if the > member is present. It fixes the following error (kernel was 2.6.33): > > crash> irq > > irq: invalid structure member offset: irqaction_mask > FILE: kernel.c LINE: 5001 FUNCTION: generic_dump_irq() > > [./crash.orig] error trace: 8097e44 => 8109541 => 810c0ec => 8156299 > > > Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bernhard@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks Bernhard -- queued for the next release. Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
