Comparison with Other Tools

It would be great if other tools could use this library instead of their own parsing. However, libkdumpfile lacks some features to make it possible.

Architectures

Missing for crash parity:

• alpha
• ia64
• loongarch64
• mips
• mips64
• powerpc
• ppc64
• s390

Missing for makedumpfile parity:

• ia64
• loongarch64
• mips64
• powerpc
• ppc64
• s390
• sparc64

File Formats

Missing for crash parity:

• libvirt QEMU VM
• QEMU VM
• ramdump
• xc_core
• xc_save

Missing for makedumpfile parity: NOTHING \o/

Other Features

Makedumpfile currently requires some low-level information parsed from the vmcore ELF headers:

• get_elf_info()
  • differentiate between ELF64 and ELF32
    • not available, but is it really needed?
  • get number of LOAD segments
    • AFAICS only used to iterate over all of RAM
    • can be done with the memory.pagemap attribute?
  • find ELF notes
    • all information hopefully stored in attributes?
  • find maximum physical address
    • see the max_pfn attribute
• get_pt_load()
  • used to iterate over all of RAM
  • also used to set up physical base on x86_64
  • probably not needed if makedumpfile does not have to deal with virtual-to-physical address translation