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Update kexec tools #1221

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@donald donald commented Aug 30, 2019

Fix kexec-tools to produce correct crash dumps for kernels after 4.20.

Update to latest version to get in sync for a patch.
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    From: Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>
    Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:52:58 +0200
    Subject: [PATCH] x86: Fix PAGE_OFFSET for kernels since 4.20
    To: horms@verge.net.au,  kexec@lists.infradead.org,
      Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>, buczek@molgen.mpg.de

    Linux kernel commit d52888aa2753 ("x86/mm: Move LDT remap out of KASLR
    region on 5-level paging") changed the base of the direct mapping
    from 0xffff880000000000 to 0xffff888000000000. This was merged
    into v4.20-rc2.

    Update to new address accordingly.
@pmenzel pmenzel merged commit 55477fb into master Sep 2, 2019
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