Currenty the kexec-tools package contains udev rules for kdump
that reload kdump in case of memory or CPU hotplug:
$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/98-kexec.rules
SUBSYSTESUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ACTION=="online", PROGRAM="/bin/systemctl try-restart kdump.service"
SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ACTION=="offline", PROGRAM="/bin/systemctl try-restart kdump.service"
SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM="/bin/systemctl try-restart kdump.service"
SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="remove", PROGRAM="/bin/systemctl try-restart kdump.service"
On other architectures the rules are necessary because the memory
and CPU layout stored in the kdump in-memory ELF header at kdump
load time. Therefore the kdump kernel has to be reloaded each
time when the CPU or memory configuration changes.
This has drawbacks:
1. During kdump reload the system can't be dumped.
2. On systems with many hotplug events (e.g. on s390 with cpuplugd)
this creates significant overhead
The reload is not necessary on s390 because there the ELF header is
created in the 2nd (kdump) kernel. Therefore, to improve things,
remove the rules for s390.
Log is from IBM, and patch has been tested by IBM and work well.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
commit 97e107b "Add support for team devices" introduced ethtool to
get permanent address.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
cked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Below patches were applied to kexec-tools-2.0.3, the latest
kexec-tools-2.0.4 has included them. Delete them here.
kexec-tools-2.0.3-Load-bzImages-smaller-than-32-KiB.patch
kexec-tools-2.0.3-kdump-pass-acpi_rsdp-to-2nd-kernel-for-efi-booting.patch
kexec-tools-2.0.3-ppc-exec-stack-fix.patch
kexec-tools-2.0.3-ppc-ppc64-compile-purgatory-code-with-gcc-option-msoft-float.patch
kexec-tools-2.0.3-vmcore-dmesg-Do-not-write-beyond-end-of-buffer.patch
kexec-tools-2.0.3-vmcore-dmesg-vmcore-dmesg-Make-it-work-with-new-stru.patch
Because makedumpfile is not supported on ppc and s390, so it makes
no sense to create the eppic_makedumpfile sub-package if there is
no makedumpfile binary to run it with.
Remove eppic contents related to ppc and s390 in kexec-tools.spec. This
will not build and install eppic on ppc and s390.
There's one mistake in rules related to eppic in kexec-tools.spec,
that caused kexec-tools-eppic to fail installation of i386. In this
patch remove that line of rule.
Meanwhile update eppic_030413.tar.gz.
This feature enables us to specify rules to scrub data in a
dumpfile with eppic macro instead of the current configuration
file (makedumpfile.conf). Currently, this feature works only
for symbols in vmlinux while the current feature can work also
for module symbols.
This library is backported from upstream, integrated and tested by
Dave Anderson.
This reverts commit 05b67ee95c.
The old commit was merged for a emergent bug fixing on release 1.5.1
of makedumpfile. Now the upstream has been updated to v1.5.3, and this
patch has been included already.
For updating to makedumpfile v1.5.3, revert it.
This reverts commit 05b67ee95c.
The old commit was merged for a emergent bug fixing on release 1.5.1
of makedumpfile. Now the upstream has been updated to v1.5.2, and this
patch has been included already.
For updating to makedumpfile v1.5.2, revert it.
Current kdump image name prefix has changed from initrd to initramfs.
Tested on a vm running Fedora 18.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Kdump systemd service should be enabled after installation like what
we do for old sysv init service.
systemctl enable will do daemon-reload automaticlly, so no need to
reload the daemon again. Please see manpage of systemctl about the detail.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
bz865162
Someone need this for kexec to load memdisk which is smaller then 32k.
kexec-tools-2.0.3-Load-bzImages-smaller-than-32-KiB.patch
bz849650, for efi booting system we need this acpi_rsdp kernel argument
after vivek's secure boot work we maybe need drop this one.
kexec-tools-2.0.3-kdump-pass-acpi_rsdp-to-2nd-kernel-for-efi-booting.patch
Add below two commits from upstream:
1.
commit c96e7736d85e40685939011e6d51b3c0a28739a3
Author: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Jul 18 09:33:51 2012 -0400
vmcore-dmesg: Do not write beyond end of buffer
scan_vmcoreinfo() currently assumes that every vmcoreinfo note line ends
with \n and overwrites new line with \0. But last entry in note, CRASHTIME=
does not end with \n and this leads to corrupting memory as we write beyond
end of buffer.
Normally things were fine but when I added some fields to vmcoreinfo, this
bug started showing and vmcore-dmesg started crashing.
I am planning to send a patch to fix this in kernel but it might be good
idea to handle this case in user space too so that vmcore-dmesg works
fine with cores of older kernels.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2.
commit df88cab364cd1a3b8c992042d62efe5e350e6b2a
Author: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Date: Mon Jul 30 13:32:48 2012 -0400
vmcore-dmesg: vmcore-dmesg: Make it work with new structured logging format
Now kernel has made kernel logging structured and exsisting vmcore-dmesg
does not work with this new format. Hence kernel version 3.5 is broken. In
3.6 now a kernel patch has been put which exports relevant fields. This
patch parses those fields and makes vmcore-dmesg work with new logging
format.
Currently it does not display log levels or dictionary. I personally think
that log levels are not very useful and it also requires additional kernel
patches so that log levels are not bitfields and relevant information is
exported to user space properly.
Concept of dictionary is new and relevant information is exported. One can
possibly enahnce vmcore-dmesg to also print dictionary contents based on
a user command line option.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
We do not depend on busybox anymore, so remove it from Requires field.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
dash is be default omited in f17, but we use -o in command line so our omit
modules list will overwrite the system configs, so dash will be installed to
initramfs.
Here avoid install dash by adding it to the '-o' list
Also remove dash dependency from rpm spec
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
