makedumpfile: support for newer kernels [v4.9 onwards]

[Abhishek Shah]

Hi All,

I am using makedumpfile utility to compress the ramdump taken by kexec/kdump,
i.e. /proc/vmcore, on arm64 platform with kernel v4.12-rc3.

/proc/vmcore works fine with crash utility without passing it though
makedumpfile, but the file generated by makedumpfile is not getting
processed by crash utility; I am getting following error :

crash: seek error: kernel virtual address: ffff8008000c16a0  type:
"memory section"

I am using kernel v4.12-RC3; makedumpfile currently seems to support
kernel up to 4.8 as per documentation.
Is there plan to support newer kernel? can you provide some pointers
to modifications required for newer kernel support?


Regards,
Abhishek