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fadump: update fadump-howto.txt with some more troubleshooting help

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On journaling filesystems like XFS, bootloader is likely to pick up
older initrd (without vmcore capture scripts) if system crashes right
after initrd update, as the bootloader (read GRUB) may not replay
filesystem log before reading the initrd from disk. Added steps to
workaround that problem.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>
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Hari Bathini 2020-05-19 20:19:15 +05:30 committed by Kairui Song
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@ -129,8 +129,24 @@ Then, start up kdump as well:
This should turn on the firmware assisted functionality in kernel by
echo'ing 1 to /sys/kernel/fadump_registered, leaving the system ready
to capture a vmcore upon crashing. To test this out, you can force-crash
your system by echo'ing a c into /proc/sysrq-trigger:
to capture a vmcore upon crashing. For journaling filesystems like XFS an
additional step is required to ensure bootloader does not pick the
older initrd (without vmcore capture scripts):
* If /boot is a separate partition, run the below commands as the root user,
or as a user with CAP_SYS_ADMIN rights:
# fsfreeze -f
# fsfreeze -u
* If /boot is not a separate partition, reboot the system.
After reboot check if the kdump service is up and running with:
# systemctl status kdump.service
To test out whether FADump is configured properly, you can force-crash your
system by echo'ing a 'c' into /proc/sysrq-trigger:
# echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger