Hello Kumagai-san, Le 28/10/2015 07:31, Atsushi Kumagai a ?crit : > Hello, > > makedumpfile version 1.5.9 is released. > Your comments/patches are welcome. > > Main new feature: > o Parallel compression > - Add the new option "--num-threads" to enable parallel compression > for faster processing. This option intends parallel compression > while --split intends parallel i/o, they try to solve different > bottlenecks. > > o Change the way to choose the non-cyclic mode > - Add the new option "--work-dir" to specify the directory used to > store the bitmap. This is the alternative to the combination of > --non-cyclic and TMPDIR. > > o Support new kernels > - The supported kernel is updated to 4.1 in this version. > At first I'm going to extend the supported version to 4.2, but > I found an issue that makedumpfile seems to exclude necessary pages > by mistake on linux 4.2. When crash-7.1.3 reads that filtered dump file, > the following message is shown. > > crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: f3fe0000 type: "fill_task_struct" > > This will be fixed in the next version. Have you fixed the 4.2 kernel issue already or you intend to work on it in the future ? Both Debian and Ubuntu run 4.2 kernel so if waiting for a fix is acceptable I would rather bring in a 1.5.9 + patch version. Kind regards, ...Louis -- Louis Bouchard Software engineer, Cloud & Sustaining eng. Canonical Ltd Ubuntu developer Debian Maintainer GPG : 429D 7A3B DD05 B6F8 AF63 B9C4 8B3D 867C 823E 7A61
