[ANNOUNCE] makedumpfile 1.7.3

HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁) k-hagio-ab at nec.com
Tue Apr 25 00:09:31 PDT 2023


Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the release of makedumpfile 1.7.3.
Thank you everyone for your help to maintain the tool.

Download:
The latest makedumpfile can be downloaded from the following URL.
   https://github.com/makedumpfile/makedumpfile/releases

New features:
- Support kernels up to v6.3 (x86_64)
- Support sadump with 5-level paging

Commits since 1.7.2:
ecc9355 [v1.7.3] Update version (Kazuhito Hagio)
446c4f6 [PATCH 2/2] Fix failure of compound page exclusion on Linux 6.3 and later (Kazuhito Hagio)
9e95fc2 [PATCH 1/2] Move offset preparation for compound page into initial() (Kazuhito Hagio)
8e8b881 [PATCH 2/2] eppic: Fix a warning about redefining ERRMSG (Petr Tesarik)
f8ac914 [PATCH 1/2] eppic: Fix incompatible pointer type warnings (Petr Tesarik)
58553ad [PATCH] sadump: fix failure of reading memory when 5-level paging is enabled (Daisuke Hatayama (Fujitsu))
5f17bdd [PATCH] Fix wrong exclusion of slab pages on Linux 6.2-rc1 (Kazuhito Hagio)
42955c0 [PATCH] IMPLEMENTAION: Add a description of the flattened format (Kazuhito Hagio)
f1d84a5 [PATCH] Makefile: Remove version from /usr/share/makedumpfile (Leonidas Spyropoulos)
2f53c3a [PATCH] Mark start of 1.7.3 development phase with version 1.7.2++ (Kazuhito Hagio)


Description of makedumpfile:
The makedumpfile is a tool for creating a dumpfile from /proc/vmcore
with filtering out unnecessary pages for analysis and compressing the
remaining pages, in order to shorten the size of the dumpfile and the
time of creating it.
https://github.com/makedumpfile/makedumpfile


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