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makedumpfile (1:1.6.4-1~16.04.0cascardo2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release. Main new features:
    o 5-level paging support
      - 5-level paging on x86_64 system is supported from this version.

    o --mem-usage support for arm64
      - The makedumpfile --mem-usage option is now supported on arm64 system.
        And the option was also tested on ppc64 and s390x by Bhupesh Sharma.

    o Support new kernels
      - The supported kernel is updated to 4.17.0 in this version.

  * Changelog:
    o New feature
      - [PATCH v2 0/3] arm64: Add '--mem-usage' support (Bhupesh Sharma) f49ca13
      - [PATCH v2 1/3] Add a new helper file 'tools.c' that provides some useful APIs (Bhupesh Sharma) 4d86cc7
      - [PATCH v2 2/3] arm64: Add support to read symbols like _stext from '/proc/kallsyms' (Bhupesh Sharma) d1e7805
      - [PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation: Update documentation regarding --mem-usage' option (Bhupesh Sharma) 8449bda
      - [PATCH 0/4] Add 5-level paging support (Baoquan He) 342fdab
      - [PATCH 2/4] Add pgtable_l5_enabled to number_table (Baoquan He) 8ae6f36
      - [PATCH 3/4] Add a new function check_5level_paging() (Baoquan He) 33ca808
      - [PATCH 4/4] arch/x86_64: Add 5-level paging support (Dou Liyang) 30a3214
      - [PATCH] handle mem_section as either a pointer or an array (Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo) 14876c4
      - [PATCH] ppc64: Increase the VA range (Hari Bathini) bd1ae9c

    o Bugfix
      - [PATCH] sadump: Fix a problem of PTI enabled kernel (Takao Indoh) 38de12a
      - [PATCH] Fix a bug when multi-threads feature meets enospace (Zhou Wenjian) 63b05c9
      - [PATCH] Fix array index out of bound exception (Lianbo Jiang) e5f96e7
      - [PATCH] fix for hugepages filtering (Hari Bathini) 246801c
      - [PATCH v2] Use integer arithmetics for the progress bar (Petr Tesarik) c6b79cb
      - [PATCH 2/2] Check PG_swapbacked for swap cache pages (Petr Tesarik) ca1f31e
      - [PATCH] Fix -g for change of mem_section (Kazuhito Hagio) f3c87e0
      - [PATCH] Fix -i for KASLR (Kazuhito Hagio) 08db98c
      - [PATCH] Fix validate_mem_section() (Kazuhito Hagio) 8f1aafa
      - [PATCH] arm64: Fix calculation of page_offset in case we are running cases other than mem-usage (Bhupesh Sharma) cb7af5f

    o Cleanup
      - [PATCH v2] Always use bigger SECTION_MAP_MASK (Petr Tesarik) 6c6789f
      - [PATCH 1/2] Add is_cache_page() helper to check if a page belongs to the cache (Petr Tesarik) 694f28c
      - [PATCH 1/4] arch/x86_64: Cleanup the address translation of the 4-level page tables (Dou Liyang) acab2a2
      - [PATCH] Fix some compilation warnings on x86 system (Kazuhito Hagio) 2148e43
      - [PATCH] Update maintainers (Masaki Tachibana) bc7420b

  * Remove 0003-sparsemem_extreme.patch, applied upstream.
  * Update pt_PT debconf translation, thanks Rui Branco. (Closes: #898280)
  * Update ru debconf translation, thanks Lev Lamberov. (Closes: #883139)
  * Update da debconf translation, thanks Joe Dalton. (Closes: #856784)
  * Make ADT check for systemd service.
  * Reload kdump after memory/CPU hotplug. (LP: #1655280)

 -- Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <email address hidden>  Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:34:06 -0300

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