Hi and thanks for your work with this problem. As you expected crash silently just loops and I spotted the problem by turning on debug printouts. If I include printouts for the "cache" address, the first value seems reasonable, but then it starts to repeat with the value 0x00000001. Last, your patch solves the problem nicely. I get a warning about duplicate kmem_slab entry and crash continues to execute and issues other warnings indicating a corrupt vmcore file. Jan Jan Karlsson Senior Software Engineer MIB Sony Mobile Communications Tel: +46703062174 sonymobile.com -----Original Message----- From: crash-utility-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:crash-utility-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Anderson Sent: onsdag den 25 april 2012 20:30 To: Discussion list for crash utility usage, maintenance and development Subject: Re: loop in crash ----- Original Message ----- > > So I don't understand how you got into a loop unless the kmem_cache > list walk-through is the real problem. If you were to print out the "cache" > address each time through the do-while loop, does the list start > repeating itself? > > And if that's true, perhaps the kmem_cache_init() should use the > hq_open()/hq_enter()/hq_close() facility on each cache address to > catch a duplicate (false) entry. And if that's true, does the attached patch help? Thanks, Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
