[PATCH V7] makedumpfile: exclude page structures of non-dumped pages

[Dave Anderson]

----- Original Message -----

> >On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 04:38:24AM +0000, Atsushi Kumagai wrote:
> >> Hello Cliff,
> >>
> >> >From: Cliff Wickman <cpw at sgi.com>
> >> >
> >> >Applies to the development branch as of 10/13/2015.
> >> >Incorporates review 10/22 by kumagai-atsushi.
> >> >Incorporates review 10/26 by kumagai-atsushi. (arch x86_64-only
> >> >implementation)
> >>
> >> Thanks for your great work.
> >> I don't want to delay v1.5.9 release anymore, I'll merge this patch
> >> into v1.6.0.
> >
> >Great!
> >Thanks for your long and patient help in defining the extent of this patch
> >and sanding off its rough edges.
> 
> BTW, I think you might be doing this, you should post a crash's patch to
> support DUMP_DH_EXCLUDED_VMEMMAP as Dave said, until this feature is
> released formally in v1.6.0.
> 
>   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2015-October/014600.html
> 
> Thanks,
> Atsushi Kumagai

Hi Atsushi,

Since I didn't get a response to either of my posts re: the above, when
I saw the patch go into your devel branch, I went ahead and added a patch
for crash-7.1.4:

  https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/commit/7ce8469f8bf7e32017f8270ecd22469040817ba2

Thanks,
  Dave