From: Dave Anderson <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH]: gcore extension, anonymous union in inode 
struct
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:50:32 -0400

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Per Fransson <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [Crash-utility] [PATCH]: gcore extension, anonymous union in
>> inode struct
>> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:29:43 +0200
>> 
>> > Hi Crash people,
>> > 
>> > The gcore extension fails on the 3.4 kernel I'm using. It attempts to
>> > find the offset of a member within the inode struct, but the member  is
>> > part of an anonymous union. This patch fixes the problem for me.
>> > 
>> > Regards,
>> > Per
>> 
>> Hello Per,
>> 
>> Thanks for reporting that. According to git repository, this was
>> changed by the following commit at the v3.1 period.
>> 
>> $ git describe a78ef704a8dd430225955f0709b22d4a6ba21deb
>> v3.1-8569-ga78ef70
>> 
>> $ git log -1 a78ef704a8dd430225955f0709b22d4a6ba21deb
>> commit a78ef704a8dd430225955f0709b22d4a6ba21deb
>> Author: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
>> Date:   Fri Oct 28 14:13:30 2011 +0200
>> 
>>     vfs: protect i_nlink
>> 
>>     Prevent direct modification of i_nlink by making it const and adding a
>>     non-const __i_nlink alias.
>> 
>>     Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
>>     Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <[email protected]>
>>     Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
>> 
>> The patch appears fine to me so I'll apply it.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> HATAYAMA, Daisuke
> 
> Hi Daisuke,
> 
> Will you be updating the crash-gcore-command tar.gz package?
> 

Hello Dave,

I have another gcore test plan soon. I'm going to update this change
together with it. Please wait for a few weeks.

Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke

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