------- Comment From [email protected] 2019-02-28 03:07 EDT-------
I have tested with latest version of Ubuntu 1810 kernel and kdump, it is 
working as expected,

# uname -a
Linux ubuntu1810 4.18.0-15-generic #16-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 7 11:04:25 UTC 2019 
ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

# dpkg -l | grep crash
ii  apport                                        2.20.10-0ubuntu13.2           
       all          automatically generate crash reports for debugging
ii  crash                                         7.2.3+real-1                  
       ppc64el      kernel debugging utility, allowing gdb like syntax
ii  kdump-tools                                   1:1.6.4-2ubuntu1              
       ppc64el      scripts and tools for automating kdump (Linux crash dumps)
ii  linux-crashdump                               4.18.0.15.16                  
       ppc64el      Linux kernel crashdump setup for the latest generic kernel
ii  python3-apport                                2.20.10-0ubuntu13.2           
       all          Python 3 library for Apport crash report handling

# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
# echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
[  437.932187] sysrq: SysRq : Trigger a crash
[  437.932248] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 
0x00000000
[  437.932321] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000008297f8
[  437.932384] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
[  437.932432] LE SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
[  437.932486] Modules linked in: iscsi_target_mod target_core_mod xt_CHECKSUM 
iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 
nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_tcpudp 
bridge stp llc ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables 
iptable_filter bpfilter kvm dm_multipath scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua 
vmx_crypto crct10dif_vpmsum sch_fq_codel nfsd ib_iser auth_rpcgss nfs_acl 
rdma_cm lockd iw_cm grace ib_cm ib_core sunrpc iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi 
scsi_transport_iscsi ip_tables x_tables autofs4 btrfs zstd_compress raid10 
raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xor raid6_pq 
libcrc32c raid1 raid0 multipath linear virtio_net crc32c_vpmsum virtio_scsi 
net_failover failover
[  437.933248] CPU: 12 PID: 2849 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Not tainted 
4.18.0-15-generic #16-Ubuntu
[  437.933335] NIP:  c0000000008297f8 LR: c00000000082a684 CTR: c0000000008297d0
[  437.933411] REGS: c000000005fcba00 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  
(4.18.0-15-generic)
[  437.933487] MSR:  8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 48422222  
XER: 20040000
[  437.933571] CFAR: c00000000082a680 DAR: 0000000000000000 DSISR: 42000000 
IRQMASK: 0
[  437.933571] GPR00: c00000000082a684 c000000005fcbc80 c00000000178ca00 
0000000000000063
[  437.933571] GPR04: 0000000000000001 0000000000000184 6967676572206120 
63726173680d0a72
[  437.933571] GPR08: 0000000000000007 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 
c000000005fcb8af
[  437.933571] GPR12: c0000000008297d0 c000000007fdea00 00000fa17d1d9760 
0000000000000000
[  437.933571] GPR16: 00000fa18f5559a0 00000fa17d174a48 00000fa17d1d9760 
00000fa17d0f8b00
[  437.933571] GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 00000fa17d1870b8 
00007fffda44f7a4
[  437.933571] GPR24: 00007fffda44f7a0 00000fa17d1dafe4 000079583abcbfa8 
c0000000016836b0
[  437.933571] GPR28: 0000000000000004 0000000000000002 0000000000000063 
c000000001602e38
[  437.934310] NIP [c0000000008297f8] sysrq_handle_crash+0x28/0x30
[  437.934377] LR [c00000000082a684] __handle_sysrq+0xf4/0x230
[  437.934431] Call Trace:
[  437.934461] [c000000005fcbc80] [c00000000082a668] __handle_sysrq+0xd8/0x230 
(unreliable)
[  437.934543] [c000000005fcbd10] [c00000000082adf8] 
write_sysrq_trigger+0x68/0x90
[  437.934643] [c000000005fcbd40] [c0000000004ada04] proc_reg_write+0x84/0xc0
[  437.934719] [c000000005fcbd70] [c0000000003fd6ec] __vfs_write+0x3c/0x70
[  437.934787] [c000000005fcbd90] [c0000000003fd988] vfs_write+0xd8/0x220
[  437.934855] [c000000005fcbde0] [c0000000003fdd04] ksys_write+0x64/0x110
[  437.934925] [c000000005fcbe30] [c00000000000b288] system_call+0x5c/0x70
[  437.934991] Instruction dump:
[  437.935033] 4bfff9e1 4bfffe44 3c4c00f6 38423230 7c0802a6 60000000 39200001 
3d42001d
[  437.935118] 394a90f8 912a0000 7c0004ac 39400000 <992a0000> 4e800020 3c4c00f6 
38423200
[  437.935203] ---[ end trace b6e09b709db92e15 ]---
[  437.937278]
[  437.937390] Sending IPI to other CPUs
[  437.965128] IPI complete
[  437.972492] kexec: Starting switchover sequence.

:::
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:::

[    9.766009] kdump-tools[1029]: Starting kdump-tools:  * running makedumpfile 
-c -d 31 /proc/vmcore /var/crash/201902280058/dump-incomplete
Copying data                                      : [100.0 %] -           eta: 
0s
[   16.536535] kdump-tools[1029]: The kernel version is not supported.
[   16.536770] kdump-tools[1029]: The makedumpfile operation may be incomplete.
[   16.536961] kdump-tools[1029]: The dumpfile is saved to 
/var/crash/201902280058/dump-incomplete.
[   16.537166] kdump-tools[1029]: makedumpfile Completed.
[   16.545276] kdump-tools[1029]:  * kdump-tools: saved vmcore in 
/var/crash/201902280058
[   16.716422] kdump-tools[1029]:  * running makedumpfile --dump-dmesg 
/proc/vmcore /var/crash/201902280058/dmesg.201902280058
[   16.721113] kdump-tools[1029]: The kernel version is not supported.
[   16.721346] kdump-tools[1029]: The makedumpfile operation may be incomplete.
[   16.721559] kdump-tools[1029]: The dmesg log is saved to 
/var/crash/201902280058/dmesg.201902280058.
[   16.721845] kdump-tools[1029]: makedumpfile Completed.
[   16.722172] kdump-tools[1029]:  * kdump-tools: saved dmesg content in 
/var/crash/201902280058
[   16.763372] kdump-tools[1029]: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:58:11 -0600
[   16.797995] kdump-tools[1029]: Rebooting.
[   16.808745] reboot: Restarting system

logging in after restart,

# ls -l /var/crash/201902280058/
total 113988
-rw------- 1 root root     28767 Feb 28 00:58 dmesg.201902280058
-rw------- 1 root root 116791977 Feb 28 00:58 dump.201902280058

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