[ANNOUNCE] makedumpfile 1.7.4

HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁) k-hagio-ab at nec.com
Sun Nov 5 16:51:18 PST 2023


Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the release of makedumpfile 1.7.4.
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 for kernels up to v6.6
- Support for riscv64 architecture

Commits since 1.7.3:
3bc3b3e [v1.7.4] Update version (Kazuhito Hagio)
9661c1d [PATCH] Fix failure of compound page exclusion on Linux 6.6 and later (Kazuhito Hagio)
aee7f3b [PATCH 2/2] riscv64: Correct the pfn_start for flatmem (Song Shuai)
f777afb [PATCH 1/2] Add riscv64 support (Song Shuai)
a34f017 [PATCH] ppc64: do page traversal if vmemmap_list not populated (Aditya Gupta)
f23bb94 [PATCH] Support struct module_memory on Linux 6.4 and later (Kazuhito Hagio)
cad0d11 [PATCH] Add debugging information for DWARF information retrieval (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

Thanks,
Kazu


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