- Update to crash 6.0.3 from upstream and modifications to compile.
  6.0.3 change log is:
  o Fix to gdb-7.3.1/bfd/bfdio.c to properly zero out a complete
    struct stat with a corrected memset argument
  o Fix for the SIAL extension module to remove a call to
    sial_free() for an uninitialised variable
  o Fix for the "runq" command for kernels that are configured
    with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
  o Implemented build and code for the analysis of 32-bit PPC ELF
    kdump vmcores
  o Implemented the capability of building a PPC crash binary on
    a PPC64 host, which can be done by entering "make target=PPC"
  o Determine the PPC page size from the kdump PAGESIZE vmcoreinfo
    data
  o Fix for the "kmem -[sS]", "kmem -[fF]" and "kmem <address>"
    options in 3.2 kernels
  o Addition of a set of dumpfile read diagnostic debug statements
  o Fix for X86 kernels that have CONFIG_X86_32,
    CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM, CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL and CONFIG_NUMA
    all configured
  o Fix for the "vtop" command on large NUMA X86 kernels where a
    node's starting physical address is larger than 32-bits
  o Update for the ARM architecture to recognize a recent change
    of its vmlinux section name from ".init" to ".init.text"
  o Significant speed increase of the "kmem -p" command, especially
    on large-memory systems
  o Implemented new "irq -a" and "irq -s" options
  o Removal of a redundant read of the kernel's __per_cpu_offset
    pointers in the ARM architecture's arm_get_crash_notes()
    function
  o Fix for an ARM architecture segmentation violation because of a
    stack overflow due to recursion in the page table translation
    code
  o Fix for the the "FREE HIGH" tally in the X86 "kmem -i" display
  o Fix for the "kmem -n" output display for 32-bit architectures
    that are configured with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
  o Cleanup of several SIAL extension module files to address bison
    2.5 and gcc 4.4.3 compile-time warnings
  o Fix for "net -[sS]" command options on the ARM architecture
  o Fix for the ARM "bt" command to allow the core kernel unwind
    tables to be used in cases where the module unwind tables are
    inaccessible
  o Implementation of a new "dev -d" option that displays disk
    device I/O statistics
  o Update for 3.1.x and later kernels configured with CONFIG_SLAB,
    which have replaced the kmem_cache.nodelists[] array with a
    pointer to an  outside array
  o Implemented build and code for analysis of 32-bit PPC
    compressed kdump vmcores
  o Prevent the "runq" command from dumping an unending loop of
    tasks if the CFS runqueue has been corrupted
  o Repurposed/renamed the rarely-used and rarely-needed "mod -r"
    option to "mod -R"
  o Implemented a new "mod -r" option, which will pass the
    "-readnow" flag to the embedded gdb module, which will override
    the two-stage strategy that it uses for reading symbol tables
    from module object files
  o Performance increase for the "kmem -s <address>" option on 
    kernels configured with CONFIG_SLAB, most notably on kernels
    whose kmem_cache.array[NR_CPUS] array is several pages in size
  o Require that the "<slabname>" argument to "kmem -s <slabname>" 
    be escaped with a '\' character in two situations:
    (1) in the highly-unlikely case of a kmem_cache slab named
        "list", to prevent the ambiguity with the "kmem -s list"
        command option.
    (2) if the first character of the <slabname> actually is a '\'
        character
  Modifications to compile are as follows:
  o Replacement of crash-6.0.2.tar.gz with crash-6.0.3.tar.gz
  o Remove crash-wrong-memset.patch the fix is present in 6.0.3
  o Remove crash-add-read-diags.patch the change is in 6.0.3

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