Hello,
makedumpfile version 1.6.2 is released.
Your comments/patches are welcome.
Main new feature:
o Support for sparc64
- sparc64 is supported from this version, it's tested on kernel-4.1.12.
o Add new option for --dump-dmesg
- Introduce the new option "--partial-dmesg", it can exclude the b
This patch series addresses some issues found during further testing of
Secure Memory Encryption (SME).
The following fixes are included in this update series:
- Fix a cache-related memory corruption when kexec is invoked in
successive instances
- Remove the encryption mask from the protection
After issuing successive kexecs it was found that the SHA hash failed
verification when booting the kexec'd kernel. When SME is enabled, the
change from using pages that were marked encrypted to now being marked as
not encrypted (through new identify mapped page tables) results in memory
corruptio
Hang was observed, in purgatory, on a machine configured with
single LPAR. This was because one of the segments was loaded
outside the actual Real Memory Area (RMA) due to wrongly
deduced RMA top value.
Currently, top of real memory area, which is crucial for loading
kexec/kdump kernel, is obtaine
