Hi.

This patchset fixes the length of bitmap and it adds the analysis
feature of ppc64 to makedumpfile. Your opinions/comments are welcome.

- [PATCH 1/3] Fix the length of bitmap
  This patch fixes the problem on some machines when -d is specified,
  that caused the crash utility not to recognize the excluded pages.
  makedumpfile creates 2 bitmaps (1st-bitmap & 2nd-bitmap) on block_size
  boundary and crash required both of them to be aligned to block_size
  boundary, but the old version only aligned one of them.  This patch
  changes the length of the bitmaps and aligns both bitmaps to
  block_size boundary.

- [PATCH 2/3] Support ppc64
  This patch adds ppc64 support to makedumpfile, and it can run on ppc64.
  This patch was created by Sachin Sant.

- [PATCH 3/3] Update the version info of makedumpfile


The latest makedumpfile(ver. 1.0.5) is based on makedumpfile from
me(2006/11/15) with all my patches applied.
You can get the latest makedumpfile from the following URL.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/

Method of installation:
  You can compile the makedumpfile command as follows;
  1. "tar -zxvf makedumpfile-1.0.5.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

Todo:
  - Dumping DISCONTIGMEM kernel

Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
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