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Generating VMCOREINFO is easy in the first kernel, for example:
# makedumpfile -g VMCOREINFO -x vmlinux

I get:

$ makedumpfile -g VMCOREINFO -x vmlinux
The kernel version is not supported.
The makedumpfile operation may be incomplete.

The vmcoreinfo is saved to VMCOREINFO.

makedumpfile Completed.

But the text file looks ok AFAICT. Please add that command to the
documentation file.

Please note that this VMCOREINFO is generated from the information in
the vmlinux only, not from the running kernel and /proc/kcore. So if
we add a command to dump it from running kernel, it's not suitable.

(This switch is intended to make a data that is used instead of vmlinux
 when vmcore didn't have VMCOREINFO and makedumpfile is in a situation
 that we don't have vmlinux. Please see the explanation of the -i and
 -g options in makefumpfile(8).)

makedumpfile doesn't have any switch which dumps VMCOREINFO from kcore
for now. (I'm thinking to have makedumpfile dump it as debug message,
though.)

Thanks,
Kazu