------- Comment From [email protected] 2018-02-15 05:50 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #10)
> Hi, Hari.
>
> It's already in bionic. However, due to some of the changes on kpti patches,
> it might fail to properly work, and there is no upstream makedumpfile fix in
> the works yet, so I am debugging and working on it, so we will get something
> that will also work for those latest kernels we have released.
>
> Thanks.
> Cascardo.

Thannk you cascardo for the update,
Yes though v1.6.3 is present in 18.04 makedumpfile still fails during dump..
===console log===
kernel used on Bionic is 4.13.0-32-generic
||/ Name                 Version         Architecture    Description
+++-====================-===============-===============-=============================================
ii  makedumpfile         1:1.6.3-1       ppc64el         VMcore extraction tool

Starting Kernel crash dump capture service...
[   22.094036] kdump-tools[1360]: Starting kdump-tools:  * running makedumpfile 
-c -d 31 /proc/vmcore /var/crash/201802150350/dump-incomplete
Checking for memory holes                         : [100.0 %] |                 
 readpage_elf: Attempt to read non-existent page at 0x4d39b30000.
[   22.378312] kdump-tools[1360]: readmem: type_addr: 0, addr:c000004d39b37140, 
size:16384
[   22.378411] kdump-tools[1360]: __exclude_unnecessary_pages: Can't read the 
buffer of struct page.
[   22.378538] kdump-tools[1360]: create_2nd_bitmap: Can't exclude unnecessary 
pages.
Checking for memory holes                         : [100.0 %] -                 
 readpage_elf: Attempt to read non-existent page at 0x4d39b30000.
[   22.378708] kdump-tools[1360]: readmem: type_addr: 0, addr:c000004d39b37140, 
size:16384
[   22.378779] kdump-tools[1360]: __exclude_unnecessary_pages: Can't read the 
buffer of struct page.
[   22.378853] kdump-tools[1360]: create_2nd_bitmap: Can't exclude unnecessary 
pages.
[   22.378924] kdump-tools[1360]: makedumpfile Failed.
[   22.379014] kdump-tools[1360]:  * kdump-tools: makedumpfile failed, falling 
back to 'cp'

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