makedumpfile-1.2.7: Add linux-2.6.26 and xen-3.1.2 support

Ken'ichi Ohmichi oomichi at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp
Thu Jul 17 22:07:17 EDT 2008


Hi,

makedumpfile version 1.2.7 is released.
Thank you for many patches.
Please test it. Your opinions/comments are welcome.

Changelog:
 o New feature
   - Add xen-3.1.2 support (Akio Takebe)
   - handle x86_64 xen code/data relocation (Itsuro ODA)
   - Add linux-2.6.26 support.
   - Add the progress bar for creating dump bitmap (Bernhard Walle)
   - Shrink the time for creating dump bitmap.

 o Bugfix
   - Fix vmcoreinfo generation on 32bit hosts for 64bit kernels (Bernhard Walle)
   - Fix compile warning (Bernhard Walle)
   - Fix illegal buffer access (Itsuro ODA)
   - Improve error handing when SIZE(nodemask_t) is undefined (Bernhard Walle)

 o Code Cleanup
   - Remove trailing whitespace (Bernhard Walle)
   - Remove unnecessary description in manpage.
   - Cleanup machine dependent method.
   - Cleanup open_dump_file() method.

Explanation of makedumpfile:
  To shorten the size of the dumpfile and the time of creating the
  dumpfile, makedumpfile copies only the necessary pages for analysis
  to the dumpfile from /proc/vmcore. You can specify the kind of
  unnecessary pages with dump_level. If you want to shorten the size
  further, enable the compression of the page data.

Download:
  You can download the latest makedumpfile(ver. 1.2.7) from the following URL.
  Details of the change are written on the CVS page of the following site.
  https://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/

Method of installation:
  You can compile the makedumpfile command as follows;
  1. "tar -zxvf makedumpfile-1.2.7.tar.gz"
  2. "cd makedumpfile"
  3. "make; make install"

Usage:
  makedumpfile [-c] [-E] [-d dump_level] [-x vmlinux] dump_mem dump_file

Example:
  If you want to exclude pages filled by zero, cache pages, user pages
  and free pages and to enable compression, please execute the following
  command.

  # makedumpfile -c -d 31 -x vmlinux /proc/vmcore dumpfile


Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi



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