[ANNOUNCE] makedumpfile 1.7.6
HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁)
k-hagio-ab at nec.com
Tue Oct 22 21:55:15 PDT 2024
Hi,
We're pleased to announce the release of makedumpfile 1.7.6.
Thank you everyone for your help to maintain the tool.
Download:
The latest makedumpfile can be downloaded from the following page.
https://github.com/makedumpfile/makedumpfile/releases
New features:
- Support for kernels up to v6.11 (x86_64)
Commits since 1.7.5:
97a8948 [v1.7.6] Update version (Kazuhito Hagio)
f2c5f76 [PATCH v2] Fix incorrect page exclusion in exclude_nodata_pages() (Ming Wang)
90dc30d [PATCH 2/2] s390x: Assume zero value of OS_INFO pointer is valid (Alexander Gordeev)
1958845 [PATCH 1/2] Submit physical address to is_phys_addr() (Alexander Gordeev)
bd30437 [PATCH 2/2] sadump_info: Return empty string instead of NULL (Stefan Wiehler)
3de7484 [PATCH 1/2] Add ftruncate error handling (Stefan Wiehler)
306eddf [PATCH] Fix failure of free pages exclusion with -x option on Linux 6.10 (Kazuhito Hagio)
a7196e9 [PATCH] fix comment: Mention current logic for vmalloc_start (Aditya Gupta)
c763012 [PATCH] make reserve_diskspace do nothing for flattened format (Jiri Bohac)
900190d [PATCH] Workaround for segfault by "makedumpfile --mem-usage" on PPC64 (Kazuhito Hagio)
bad2a7c [PATCH] Fix wrong exclusion of Slab pages on Linux 6.10-rc1 and later (Kazuhito Hagio)
985e575 [PATCH] Fix failure of hugetlb pages exclusion on Linux 6.9 and later (Kazuhito Hagio)
354fbdd [PATCH] Makefile: Make sbin directory configurable (Coiby Xu)
6798189 [PATCH] Update maintainers (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, to shorten the size of the dumpfile and the time of
creating it.
https://github.com/makedumpfile/makedumpfile
Thanks,
Kazu
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