A kexec-tools bug fix and enhancement update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELBA-2020-1365 Oracle Linux 8 kexec-tools bug fix and enhancement update

Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2020-1365

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2020-1365.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kexec-tools-2.0.19-12.0.1.el8_1.2.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
kexec-tools-2.0.19-12.0.1.el8_1.2.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kexec-tools-2.0.19-12.0.1.el8_1.2.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[2.0.19-12.0.1.el8_1.2]
- change makedumpfile fixed size buffer for VMCOREINFO [Orabug: 29870551]
- 99kdumpbase: Do not append ip=:dhcp if ip=dhcp is present
[Orabug: 29518713]
- rebase
kexec-tools-2.0.8-dracut-module-setup-ibft-avoid-dup-config.patch
[Orabug: 28872281]
- don't patch files in SOURCES directory. That breaks building from the
srpm (dave.kleikamp@oracle.com)
- dracut-module-setup: avoid duplicate config for ibft [Orabug: 22780125]
- kdumpctl: exclude default_hugepagesz setting from kdump kernel cmdline
(Sriharsha Yadagudde) [Orabug: 19134999]
- kdumpctl: verify if kernel support securelevel interface
(Sriharsha Yadagudde) [Orabug: 18905671]

[2.0.19-12.2]
- arm64: kdump: deal with a lot of resource entries in /proc/iomem
- arm64: kexec: allocate memory space avoiding reserved regions
- kexec: add variant helper functions for handling memory regions