makedumpfile-1.1.5: Xen support

[Dave Anderson]

Itsuro ODA wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> 
>>>Changelog:
>>>o Add a new feature that extracting the part of xen hypervisor and
>>>  domain-0 from /proc/vmcore. In most cases under xen environment,
>>>  it is enough to analyze a cause of system crash.
>>>  The patch was provided by Itsuro Oda.
>>>  Usage:
>>>    # makedumpfile -E --xen-syms xen-syms /proc/vmcore dumpfile
>>
>>Can you verify that the dumpfile created above is usable as both a
>>hypervisor dumpfile as well as a dom0 vmlinux dumpfile?  In other
>>words, can both of the following sessions be accomplished with the
>>resultant dumpfile?
>>
>>  # crash xen-syms dumpfile
>>
>>and:
>>
>>  # crash vmlinux dumpfile
>>
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Thanks.

Great -- thanks.

Is the "-d" dump_level option completely ignored, or can it
(without vmlinux awareness) recognize and skip zero-filled
pages?

Dave