makedumpfile-1.2.6: Extract vmcoreinfo from /proc/vmcore for Xen

[oomichi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ken'ichi Ohmichi)]

Hi,

makedumpfile version 1.2.6 is released.
Please test it. Your opinions/comments are welcome.

Changelog:
 o New feature
   - Extract vmcoreinfo from /proc/vmcore for Xen (by Itsuro ODA)
   - Add linux-2.6.25 support
   - Add '--help' option
 o Bugfix
   - Fix the error code of Xen extracting feature (by Akio Takebe)
   - Fix the ia64 problem that invalid data is copied around overlapping
     segments.
 o Code Cleanup
   - make create_dump_bitmap() simple

Explanation of makedumpfile:
  To shorten the size of the dumpfile and the time of creating the
  dumpfile, makedumpfile copies only the necessary pages for analysis
  to the dumpfile from /proc/vmcore. You can specify the kind of
  unnecessary pages with dump_level. If you want to shorten the size
  further, enable the compression of the page data.

Download:
  You can download the latest makedumpfile(ver. 1.2.6) from the following URL.
  Details of the change are written on the CVS page of the following site.
  https://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/

Method of installation:
  You can compile the makedumpfile command as follows;
  1. "tar -zxvf makedumpfile-1.2.6.tar.gz"
  2. "cd makedumpfile"
  3. "make; make install"

Usage:
  makedumpfile [-c] [-E] [-d dump_level] [-x vmlinux] dump_mem dump_file

Example:
  If you want to exclude pages filled by zero, cache pages, user pages
  and free pages and to enable compression, please execute the following
  command.

  # makedumpfile -c -d 31 -x vmlinux /proc/vmcore dumpfile


Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi