[ANNOUNCE] makedumpfile 1.7.5

HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁) k-hagio-ab at nec.com
Thu Apr 11 22:43:48 PDT 2024


Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the release of makedumpfile 1.7.5.
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 v6.8 (x86_64)
- Support for printk caller_id by --dump-dmesg option

Commits since 1.7.4:
c266469 [v1.7.5] Update version (Kazuhito Hagio)
94241fd [PATCH] ppc64: get vmalloc start address from vmcoreinfo (Aditya Gupta)
71ac00c [PATCH] ppc64: read cur_mmu_type from vmcoreinfo (Aditya Gupta)
48bb1e0 [PATCH] add PRINTK_CALLER id support to --dump-dmesg option (Edward Chron)
6f8325d [PATCH v2 2/2] s390x: uncouple virtual and physical address spaces (Alexander Gordeev)
7bb90b7 [PATCH 1/2] s390x: fix virtual vs physical address confusion (Alexander Gordeev)

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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