Having uncommented core_collector line in default kdump.conf would help
s-c-kdump determine which arguments to use without relying on hardcoded
values.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Lzo is proven faster than zlib, for large memory machine it will
extremely shorten the time for saving vmcore. Let's switch to lzo as the
default compression method for makedumpfile.
The drawback is lzo has a little less compression ratio than zlib. But
considering for most users, speed/time is a more serious concern than
vmcore size. So I think default to lzo will benefit most of the users.
v1->v2: update kdump.conf.5 [DaveY]
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
mkdumprd call dracut to rebuilding kdump initrd, sometimes passing extra
dracut args is helpful. For example user can enable debug output with
--debug, --printsize to print roughly increased initramfs size by each module,
--omit-drivers to omit kernel modules, etc.
This patch enables dracut_args option for passing extra args to dracut.
Also it modifies add_dracut_arg() to treat a string with-in quote as single
string because for dracut options which has its own args, the args need to be
quoted and space seperated.
If add_dracut_arg() gets an string read from kdump.conf and if that string
contains double quotes, then while converting to positional parameters
those double quotes are not interpreted. Hence if /etc/kdump.conf contains
following.
dracut_args --add-drivers "driver1 driver2"
then add_dracut_args() sees following positional parameters
$1= --add-drivers
$2= "driver1
$3= driver2"
Notice, double quotes have been ignored and parameters have been broken
based on white space.
Modify add_dracut_arg() to look for parameters starting with " and
if one is found, it tries to merge all the next parameters till one
is found with ending double quote. Hence effectively simulating
following behavior.
$1= --add-drivers
$2= "driver1 driver2"
[v1->v2]: address quoted substring in dracut_args, also handle the leading
and ending spaces in substring.
[v2->v3]: fix dracut arguments seperator in kdump.conf.
[v3->v4]: improve changelog, thanks vivek.
[v4->v5]: make the manpage more verbose [vivek].
Tested with below dracut_args test cases:
1. dracut_args --add-drivers "pcspkr virtio_net" --omit-drivers "sdhci-pci hid-logitech-dj e1000"
2. dracut_args --add-drivers " pcspkr virtio_net " --omit-drivers "sdhci-pci hid-logitech-dj e1000"
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Some Smart Array (hpsa/cciss) adapters don't support reset, we need
to disable kdump on those devices, like rhel6 did.
In this patch, the dump target is checked according to below
criteria if it's a block device.
If it's cciss disk but is resettbale, can be used as dump target.
If it's cciss disk but is not resettable, can not be used as dump
target.
If it's cciss disk and not resettable, but user set OVERRIDE_RESETTABLE
to 1 in /etc/sysconfig/kdump, can be taken as dump target. Because
user know the situation and want to have a try.
In this patch, added codes include 4 parts:
1)Add an option "override_resettable <0 | 1>" into kdump.conf, and
add related section into kdump.conf man page. In mkdumprd, will check
whether user has set a value, get that value if yes. By default, the
value is 0.
2)port utility functions from dracut-functions.sh.
3)The check_resettable function checks if dump target is a resettable
block device. This includes the case where default action dump_to_rootfs
is set.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Current blacklist option is different from the option in rhel6. In current
implementation blacklist just means omit the driver, but it should really
be preventing it being loaded in initramfs.
To keep consistent, just make the option as deprecated. User is suggested
to user dracut kernel cmdline rd.driver.blacklist instead.
[v1->v2]: improve man page description, thanks Vivek.
Tested in kvm guest with rd.driver.blacklist in kdump sysconfig
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Firstly rename dump_rootfs to dump_to_rootfs to remove the ambiguity
about dump_rootfs. Then add it as one of default options. That means
user can specify dump_to_rootfs to be default action manually, then
it will take action when specified target dump failed.
Secondly, in rhel7 and fedora, when default action is not specified,
the default 'default' is dump_to_rootfs. Namely when specified target
dump failed, the kdump initrd will mount root and save kdump from
initramfs context. However in rhel6, the default 'default' is 'reboot'.
That means when specified target dump failed, the kdump initrd will
reboot systems. For being consistent with rhel6, change the default
'default' back to 'reboot'. And this can also keep logic simple, easier
to understand. Primarily, Our default dump target is root filesystem.
So keeping "default" as "dump_to_rootfs" and trying to dump to root
filesystem again when first attempt fails does not make much sense.
Meanwhile add the relevant description into kdump.conf,kdump.conf.5
and kexec-kdump-howto.txt.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
For devices with filesystem, udev /dev/disk/by-uuid/* links are usually
reliable. But one exception is multipath devices, child and top layer
device may have same uuid.
As dm devices maintain /dev/mapper/* as persistent names, so converting to
/dev/mapper/* firstly then try by-uuid/* and by-id/*
Also because user know better what's the persistent name we just document well
to suggest user use persistent name in kdump.conf. it's suggested to
to use lvm or multipath canonical names or uuid/label.
Updated kdump.conf examples and related chunks in kexec-kdump-howto.txt
use lvm /dev/vg/<devname> in examples
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Add force_rebuild option in kdump.conf
Some user need always force rebuild the dumprd, add an kdump.conf
option force_rebuild here. If force_rebuild is set to 1
kdump initrd will be rebuilt every time then the service starts.
Testing:
Tested below cases:
force_rebuild
force_rebuild 0
force_rebuild 1
force_rebuild 2
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Currently net options means either nfs or ssh dump.
Better to split these two into standalone options. That's more clear to user.
after the split, ssh dump need user specify "ssh user@host"
nfs dump need user specify "nfs host:nfsshare"
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
For the "blacklist" here, it means prevent the kernel modules
from loading into kdump initrd, which is different from RHEL6.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Original patch is from Amerigo, but it has changed a lot:
remove multi dump
refreshed with latest git for the dump instruction function restructure
fixed the behavior of do_kdump_pre, if kdump_pre fails it will reboot
update the docs
check the existance and executable of kdump_pre/post files,
also check the timestamp of them for rebuilding.
refresh patch,
Address comments from vivek:
s/hush/bash in docs
fix the copy-paste error in kdump post error message
s/reboot\/halt/reboot in kexec-kdump-howto.txt
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
1. add core_collector filter support to ssh dump
2. scp can be specified in kdump.conf
3. error out if no '-F' with makedumpfile
4. add proper explanation and examples to kdump.conf[.5] and kexec-kdump-howto.txt.
v1->v2: add verify_core_collector function
v2->v3: optimize the code, remove local variable for default core_collector
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Update core_collector in kdump.conf[.5]:
1. accept <command> not limited to makedumpfile
2. add notes about default core_collector
3. add notes about flattened vmcore
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
disk_timeout should be handled by dracut. remove it from kdump.conf[.5]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Default shell of kdump module is bash instead of msh, fix the doc
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
If default action is not set kdump will by default dump to root fs
Fix kdump.conf[.5] about this issue
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
kdump_post and kdump_pre are not implemented, remove them from kdump.conf[.5]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Dracut and udev handles bringing up network, remove the legacy link_delay
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Add ssh dump support
changes including below items:
1. sshkey option
2. sshkey propagate
3. fix a bug of _server ip calculation for dump target string
4. change the prefix of kdump hook from 93 to 01 to avoid dhclient and
other cleanups happening before us
5. enable network with dracut cmdline rd.neednet=1 when there's network
target config
[v1 - v2]:
Only check_ssh_target when there's ssh dump target in kdump config file
[v2 -> v3]
style fixes: trailing spaces and space before tab indent
remove set -x
simply check_ssh_target
use awk to get sshkey option value
change pivot hook order to 0000
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
