upstream: fedora
resolves: bz2085347
conflict: yes, small conflict due to patch
"kdumpctl: drop DUMP_TARGET variable" not
backported to rhel9.
commit c743881ae6
Author: Tao Liu <ltao@redhat.com>
Date: Fri Sep 23 18:13:11 2022 +0800
virtiofs support for kexec-tools
This patch add virtiofs support for kexec-tools by introducing a new option
for /etc/kdump.conf:
virtiofs myfs
Where myfs is a variable tag name specified in qemu cmdline
"-device vhost-user-fs-pci,tag=myfs".
The patch covers the following cases:
1) Dumping VM's vmcore to a virtiofs shared directory;
2) When the VM's rootfs is a virtiofs shared directory and dumping the
VM's vmcore to its subdirectory, such as /var/crash;
3) The combination of case 1 & 2: The VM's rootfs is a virtiofs shared
directory and dumping the VM's vmcore to another virtiofs shared
directory.
Case 2 & 3 need dracut >= 057, otherwise VM cannot boot from virtiofs
shared rootfs. But it is not the issue of kexec-tools.
Reviewed-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <ltao@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <ltao@redhat.com>
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