Move the code to check /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded to function
check_kdump_feasibility(). And rename status() to check_current_kdump_status()
so these two functions become clearer.
cleanup kdumpctl status path as well.
Tested with kernel without CONFIG_KEXEC
Tested with run kdumpctl start two times.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Kdump does not support secure boot yet, so let's claim it is not supported
at the begginning of service start function.
In this patch for checking secure boot status I'm checking the efivars per
suggestion from pjones. see in code comments for the details.
Tested in Fedora 19 + qemu ovmf with secure boot enabled.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
When watchdog is enabled in 1st kernel, then crash dump in kdump
kernel will be interrupted if watchdog is timeout. Since some
wdt drivers can stop the watchdog when its driver is loaded,
e.g iTCO_wdt, this can benefit crash dump.
Add watchdog driver which is active in system to initramfs, its
loading can stop watchdog.
For now, put this adding in 99kdumpbase.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
In ssh dump, we use random-seed to feed /dev/urandom. Since the systemd
random-seed file could change location, it's better we create our
own random-seed.
The discussion is listed below for future reference:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kexec/2014-January/000340.html
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
This is a backport of the following upstream commit:
commit 4404368
Author: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Dec 18 22:34:43 2013 +0900
[PATCH] memset() in cyclic bitmap initialization introduce segment fault.
We are using memset() to improve performance when creating 1st and 2nd
bitmap. After doing round up the pfn_start and round down pfn_end, it's
possible that pfn_start_roundup is greater than pfn_end_round. A segment
fault could happen in that case because memset is taking roughly the
value of (pfn_end_round << 3 - pfn_start_roundup << 3 ), which is
negative, as its third argument.
So we can skip the memset if start is greater than end. It's safe
because we will set bit for the round up part and also round down part.
Actually this happens on my EFI virtual machine:
cat /proc/iomem:
00000000-00000fff : reserved
00001000-0009ffff : System RAM
000a0000-000bffff : PCI Bus 0000:00
000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
00100000-3d162017 : System RAM
01000000-015cab9b : Kernel code
015cab9c-019beb3f : Kernel data
01b4f000-01da9fff : Kernel bss
30000000-37ffffff : Crash kernel
3d162018-3d171e57 : System RAM
3d171e58-3d172017 : System RAM
3d172018-3d17ae57 : System RAM
3d17ae58-3dc10fff : System RAM
3dc11000-3dc18fff : reserved
3dc19000-3dc41fff : System RAM
3dc42000-3ddcefff : reserved
3ddcf000-3f7fefff : System RAM
3f7ff000-3f856fff : reserved
[..]
gdb ./makedumpfile core
(gdb) bt full
[..]
#1 0x000000000042775d in create_1st_bitmap_cyclic () at makedumpfile.c:4543
i = 0x5
pfn = 0x3d190
phys_start = 0x3d18ee58
phys_end = 0x3d18f018
pfn_start = 0x3d18e
pfn_end = 0x3d18f
pfn_start_roundup = 0x3d190
pfn_end_round = 0x3d188
pfn_start_byte = 0x7a32
pfn_end_byte = 0x7a31
[..]
(gdb) list makedumpfile.c:4543
4538 return FALSE;
4539
4540 pfn_start_byte = (pfn_start_roundup - info->cyclic_start_pfn) >> 3;
4541 pfn_end_byte = (pfn_end_round - info->cyclic_start_pfn) >> 3;
4542
4543 memset(info->partial_bitmap2 + pfn_start_byte,
4544 0xff,
4545 pfn_end_byte - pfn_start_byte);
4546
4547 for (pfn = pfn_end_round; pfn < pfn_end; ++pfn)
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
This patch fixes segment fault issues on the systems with very small
memory map range (less than 8 pages).
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
In kdump kernel boot, kdump kernel is booted with memmap= and add
them into e820 map. Then ACPI is initialized and the kernel traverses
the ACPI namespace to find entries for memory device to be hot added.
This adds page table information and the kexec/kdump kernel runs out
of memory.
So in kdump kernel, hot plug memory need be disabled always, only
exact map is trusted. Now add the kernel parameter acpi_no_memhotplug
to kdump kernel cmdline.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
In the remote dump case, and if fence kdump is configured, chances are
that the same network interface will be setup more than once.
One time for network dump, the other times for fence kdump. The result
is we will have two or more duplicate ip= configuration in 40ip.conf.
These are exactly duplicates, however dracut will refuse to continue and
raise a fatal error if there are duplicate configuration for the same
interface. So we have to avoid adding these duplicates.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Zhi Zou <zzou@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Marek Grac <mgrac@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
This patch is used to setup fence kdump environment when building kdump
initrd:
1. Check if it's cluster and fence_kdump is configured.
2. Get all the nodes in the cluster and pass them to 2nd kernel via
/etc/fence_kdump_nodes
3. Setup network interface which will be used by fence kdump notifier in
2nd kernel.
4. Install fence kdump notifier (/usr/libexec/fence_kdump_send) to
initrd.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Zhi Zou <zzou@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Marek Grac <mgrac@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
In 2nd kernel, to prevent the crashed system from being fenced off,
fence kdump message must be send to other nodes in the cluster
periodically before dumping process.
We preserve every node's name in /etc/fence_kdump_nodes in the
initrd, so we parse this file and send notify them.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Zhi Zou <zzou@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Marek Grac <mgrac@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
If the system is configured fence kdump, we need to update kdump
initramfs if cluster or fence_kdump config is newer.
In RHEL7, cluster config is no longer keeping locally but stored
remotely. Fortunately we can use a pcs tool to retrieve the xml based
config and parse the last changed time from that.
/etc/sysconfig/fence_kdump is used to configure runtime arguments to
fence_kdump_send. So We have to pass the arguments to 2nd kernel.
When cluster config or /etc/sysconfig/fence_kdump is newer than local
kdump initramfs, we must rebuild initramfs to adapt changes in cluster.
For example:
Detected change(s) the following file(s):
cluster-cib /etc/sysconfig/fence_kdump
Rebuilding /boot/initramfs-xxxkdump.img
[..]
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Zhi Zou <zzou@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Marek Grac <mgrac@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Add following common variables and function:
$FENCE_KDUMP_CONIFG: configuration file /etc/sysconfig/fence_kdump
$FENCE_KDUMP_NODES: configuration file /etc/fence_kdump_nodes
$FENCE_KDUMP_SEND: executable /usr/libexec/fence_kdump_send
is_fence_kdump(): used to determine if the system is in a cluster and
configured with fence_kdump.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Zhi Zou <zzou@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Marek Grac <mgrac@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Since kdump already support dump in cluster environment, this patch
add a howto file to RPM package to describe how to configure kdump
in cluster environment.
Signed-off-by: arthur <zzou@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
IBM would strongly recommend for s390x to replace "maxcpus=1" with
"nr_cpus=1" because with the "nr_cpus=1" kernel parameter only for one
CPU the per-cpu data structures are allocated. This currently saves
several MiB of memory.
IBM (michael.holzheu@de.ibm.com) has confirmed this patch worked fine.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Backport from upstream.
commit 20ecc0827e7837c52f3903638a59959f8bf17f9e
Author: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Tue Nov 5 00:29:35 2013 +0900
[PATCH v2] Improve progress information for huge memory system.
On system with huge memory, percentage in progress information is
updated at very slow interval, because 1 percent on 1 TiB memory is
about 10 GiB, which looks like as if system has freezed. Then,
confused users might get tempted to push a reset button to recover the
system. We want to avoid such situation as much as possible.
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
This is a backport of the following upstream commit:
commit 158d763
Author: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Jan 7 01:37:34 2014 +0800
vmcore-dmesg: struct_val_u64() not casting u64 to u32
It seems gcc doesn't check return type from inline function.
struct_val_u64() should return u64 otherwise upper 32bit is lost.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
timestamp in vmcore-dmesg is u64 type but it's truncated to u32, which
results in wrong time stamp. So let's backport this patch to fix this
issue.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
This is a backport of the following upstream commit:
commit 7c770ed
Author: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Date: Thu Dec 12 16:40:31 2013 +0900
[PATCH] Fall back to read() when mmap() fails.
This is a fall back path for mmap().
This patch disables mmap() when facing the issues related to mmap(),
and read() will be used to read vmcore instead.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
mmap() file operation on vmcore is working properly when the page being
accessed has different attributes on different part (ie. two different type
of memory ranges are overlapping).
A fall back mechanism is introduced in this patch, in case mmap() fails,
switch to read() afterwards.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
This is a backport of the following upstream commit:
commit a895dc8
Author: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Date: Thu Dec 12 16:40:12 2013 +0900
[PATCH] Add --non-mmap option to disable mmap() manually.
When --non-mmap option is specified, makedumpfile doesn't use
mmap() even if /proc/vmcore supports mmap().
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Having this patch, user can switch between mmap() and read() when
accessing vmcore. Whenever user feels necessary to use readmem on vmcore
(buggy code in mmap path, debug purpose, etc.), --non-mmap can do this
favor.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
This is a backport of the following upstream commit:
commit eb708ce
Author: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Jul 2 11:11:07 2013 +0900
[PATCH 2/2] Add help and man message for '--help'.
Conventionally '-h' and '--help' are all provided. Currently makedumpfile
lacks help and man message for '--help'. Here add it.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
It's needed for applying commit 414d3ed ("Add --non-mmap option to
disable mmap() manually").
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
This is a backport of the following upstream commit:
commit bd67c1d
Author: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Jul 2 11:09:20 2013 +0900
[PATCH 1/2] Assign non-printable value as short options.
Characters for short options is limited, and now makedumpfile has
considerably many options. As times go on, no enough reasonable
letters can be assigned to each functionality with short options.
E.g non-cyclic vs Y, cyclic-buffer vs Z, eppic vs S.
Now assign non-printable value to these kind of short optins, meanwhile
define them as indicative MACRO which can make code more readable.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
It's needed for applying commit 414d3ed ("Add --non-mmap option to
disable mmap() manually").
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 2dc9600ad1:
commit 2dc9600
Author: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Nov 14 10:51:47 2013 +0800
makedumpfile: disable mmap
There's a kernel bug for mapping mem ranges which end with
an address not aligned to page boundry. It's still not resolved
in upstream, so let's disable mmap read for now as a workaround.
Once upstream got a right fix we can revert this patch.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
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>
When we're parsing kdump.conf, we read it from stdin in a while
loop statement. If we don't use ssh -n within the loop, all rest of the
kdump.conf options, which are in stdin, will be eaten by ssh.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
make tgz now will automatically pack the po files and Makefile to
kexec-tools-po-`date +%Y%m%d`.tgz to make life easier when we update po
files.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
The locale directory for Tamil (India) is
"/usr/share/locale/ta_IN/LC_MESSAGES/" but not
"/usr/share/locale/ta-IN/LC_MESSAGES/"
For the locale directory mapping purpose, need to change ta-IN to ta_IN:
$ git mv ta-IN.po ta_IN.po
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
makedumpfile can filter out kernel data from vmcore[1]. A how-to of feature
is well explained in makedumpfile.conf, which upstream is already
shipping but we're not.
Now add makedumpfile.conf and its man page to our package the upstream
way:
makedumpfile.conf --> /etc/makedumpfile.conf.sample
makedumpfile.conf.5.gz --> /usr/share/man/man5/makedumpfile.conf.5.gz
[1]. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2011-September/005466.html
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>
This is a backport of commit bcdba92 ("[PATCH v5] Support to filter dump
for kernels that use CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP."):
commit bcdba92
Author: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon Nov 25 17:20:55 2013 +0900
[PATCH v5] Support to filter dump for kernels that use CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP.
Makedumpfile tool fails to filter dump for kernels that are build with
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP set, as it fails to do address translations
for vmemmap regions that are mapped out of zone normal. This patch
provides support in makedumpfile to do vmemmap to physical address
translations when they are mapped outside zone normal. Some kernel
symbols are needed in vmcoreinfo for this changes to be effective.
The kernel patch that adds the necessary symbols to vmcoreinfo has
been posted to linuxppc devel mailing list. This patch is influenced
by vmemmap to physical address translation support code in crash tool.
This patch has been tested successfully at all dump filtering levels
on kernels with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP set/unset. Also, tested dump
filtering on already filtered vmcores (re-filtering).
Changes from v4 to v5:
Trimmed patch description to be compact and readable.
Changes from v3 to v4:
Rebased to devel branch.
Signed-off-by: Onkar N Mahajan <onmahaja@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On PPC platform, filter facility is broken since we use
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This patch fixes this issue but also needs kernel
counterpart fix to get makedumpfile filter working.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Best<sbest@redhat.com>
This is a backport of commit a01b663 ("[PATCH v2] dump-dmesg: Understand
>= v3.11-rc4 dmesg."):
commit a01b663
Author: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Date: Fri Sep 20 15:56:49 2013 +0900
[PATCH v2] dump-dmesg: Understand >= v3.11-rc4 dmesg.
Symbol name changed with the following commit:
62e32ac printk: rename struct log to struct printk_log
Changes for v2:
* Only back values for symbol names we did actually read;
* either "log" or "printk_log"
Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
makedumpfile --dump-dmesg is broken since VMCOREINFO symbol "log" has
renamed to "printk_log". This patch fixes --dump-dmesg on 3.11 kernel.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
We only allow one instance of kdump service running at each time by
flock /var/lock/kdump which is opened as fd 9 in kdumpctl script.
However a leaking fd issue has been discovered by SELinux:
When executing a specific shell command (not the shell built-in but
provided by other packages, in this case - restorecon) in kdumpctl,
current shell will fork a new subshell for executing and
the subshell will inherit open fd 9 from parent shell. And SELinux
detects that subshell is holding the open fd and consider fd 9 is
leaked.
To avoid this kind of leaking, the most easy way seems to be breaking our
kdumpctl code out into two parts:
- A top level parent shell, which is only used to deal with the lock and
invoking the subshell below.
- A 2nd tier level subshell, which is closing the inherited open fd at
very first and doing the rest of the kdumpctl job. So that it isn't
leaking fd to its subshell when executing like restorecon, etc.
To be easy to understand, the callgraph is roughly like below:
[..]
--> open(9)
--> flock(9)
--> fork
--> close(9) <-- we close 9 right here
--> main() <-- we're now doing the real job
--> [..]
--> fork()
--> restorecon <-- we don't leak fd 9 to child process
--> [..]
--> [..]
As shown above, a wrapper main() is added as the 2nd tier level shell in
this kind of call model. So we can completely avoid leaking fd to
subshell.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Description:
Currently we only added memdebug code before different dracut
hooks ie. pre-udev pre-pivot etc. Add memdebug in kdump.sh before
capturing vmcore is also good for debugging.
solution:
Add make_trace_mem before saving vmcore.
Signed-off-by: arthur <zzou@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
There's a kernel bug for mapping mem ranges which end with
an address not aligned to page boundry. It's still not resolved
in upstream, so let's disable mmap read for now as a workaround.
Once upstream got a right fix we can revert this patch.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Description of Problem:
This is a REGRESSION issue.
At fedora makedumpfile has been updated toward v1.5.4. Unfortunately,
this version fails calculating phys_base on sadump format and then
fails converting vmcore.
x86_64 kernel is relocatable kernel and there can be a gap between
the physical address statically assigned to kernel data and texts
and the address that is really assigned to each object corresponding
to the kernel symbols. The gap is phys_base. makedump calculates the
phys_base in an ad-hoc way that comparing the addresses of some of
occurrences of "Linux kernel" strings in certain range of vmcore.
Resolution:
Fix patch has already been posted in upstream. so just back port.
The commit ID are:
commit e23dc0a1aa5fa7a4429f72ff1c2fe87a87291065
commit 92563d7a7a5175ef78c4a94ee269b1b455331b4c
Signed-off-by: arthur <zzou@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Boot with "crashkernel=128M,high", kernel now uses "Crash kernel" in
/proc/iomem for crash kernel memory reservations at both low and high:
commit 157752d
Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
kexec: use Crash kernel for Crash kernel low
But kexec is still scanning for "Crash kernel low" in /proc/iomem, and
will fail immediately when load/unload crash kernel.
So let's pull the following commit from kexec upstream to make
it compatible with our kernel:
commit e25e6e7
Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
kdump, x86: Process multiple Crash kernel in /proc/iomem
(This patch from upstream is untouched and can be applied cleanly)
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Description of Problem:
In cyclic mode, makedumpfile recalculates cyclic buffer size as the
largest multiple of the largest block size managed by buddy
allocator, i.e. 4MB, smaller than the cyclic buffer size in order to
enable to process each unit of blocks managed by buddy allocator in
each cycle.
However, makedumpfile does two wrong things in the recalculations:
1) While updating size of cyclic buffer, makedumpfile doesn't update
length of range of cycle in page frame numbers, due to which, if
cyclic buffer size is updated, because cyclic buffer size is always
reduced during udpate, some buffer overrun can happen on the cyclic
buffer. This can cause segmentation violation in the worst case.
2) roundup() is used to calculate bitmap size for maximum block size
managed by buddy allocator, here divideup() is correct, due to
which, although memory filtering is not affected, cyclic buffer size
get too much aligned and less efficient.
Fix patches has already been posted and merged in makedumpfile
development devel branch.
git://git.code.sf.net/p/makedumpfile/code
f8c8218856effc43ea01cd9394761cfb8aeaa8df
a785fa7dd7a7bd7dcbb017d0bea8848243b0924f
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
The dumpfile header has this field, which was inherited from
the old "diskdump" facility:
struct disk_dump_header {
...
unsigned int max_mapnr; /* = max_mapnr */
...
and which, among other things, is used by the crash utility as a
delimiter to determine whether a physical address read request is
legitimate. And obviously the field cannot handle PFN values greater
than 32-bits.
The makedumpfile source code does have its own max_mapnr representation
in its DumpInfo structure in "makedumpfile.h":
struct DumpInfo {
...
unsigned long long max_mapnr; /* number of page descriptor */
...
But in its "diskdump_mod.h" file, it carries forward the old diskdump
header format, which has the 32-bit field:
struct disk_dump_header {
...
unsigned int max_mapnr; /* = max_mapnr */
...
And here in "makedumpfile.c", the inadvertent truncation occurs
when the PFN is greater than 32-bits:
int
write_kdump_header(void)
{
...
dh->max_mapnr = info->max_mapnr;
...
Now upstream has below commit to fix this, back port it:
commit 8e124174b62376b17ac909bc68622ef07bde6840
Author: Jingbai Ma <jingbai.ma@hp.com>
Date: Fri Oct 18 18:53:38 2013 +0900
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
