Since GCC12 several warnings like the following are produced in
zipl/boot compile targets:
CC zipl/boot/stage2.o
stage2.c: In function ‘start’:
stage2.c:99:24: warning: array subscript 0 is outside array bounds of ‘struct stage2_descr[0]’ [-Warray-bounds]
99 | stage2_descr = *(struct stage2_descr*)STAGE2_DESC;
This is the same issue as reported for the Kernel [1][2]. There is
currently no sane fix available, therefore simply disable the warning
for the zipl/boot/ targets.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/yt9dzgkelelc.fsf@linux.ibm.com/
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99578
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
For dasd devices, we need to enable the device before we can use it.
Add the required dasd device to the kernel commandline when installing
ngdump to a dasd device.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
The current code first assembles the ngdump init ramdisk, and creates
the filesystem on the dump disk afterwards. ngdump uses uuids to mount
the dump device. Because the filesystem uuid is changing with the final
mkfs, ngdump has to use the partuuid of the device. This does work for
nvme, but not for dasds. Another problem is that dryrun likely wouldn't
work if there's no partition table on the dump device. To fix these
issues, move the mkfs to the ngdump helper script so we can use the
filesystem uuid. When --dryrun is specified the script passes /dev/null
as ngdump device to make mkinitramfs happy. As the initramdisk is never
used in this case, this shouldn't be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
CCW and LD-IPL records cannot be used at the same time for dumps because
CCW dump uses the standalone dumper, while LD-IPL uses ngdump. The first
one writes data to the raw disk without any filesystem, while the second
one uses an ext filesystem. Therefore we need a way to tell zipl which
kind of dumper it should install, as both cannot be installed at the
same time. The device given is the same for both types, so we cannot use
this to decide which type to install. Therefore add a '--ldipl-dump' option
so the user can decide which type of dump to use.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
In order to allow installing only a list-directed ipl entry, remove
the last-table/number-of-tables logic which always required a legacy
program table. With the new code there's no longer a loop in
prepare_bootloader() which requires a certain start index or order
of tables.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
Instead of depending on array index to decide whether we
did already the preparation work for installing the bootloader,
add an explicit skip_prepare flag to struct install_set.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
In preparation of decoupling the program table position from
the block pointer format, rename:
PROGRAM_TABLE_0 to LEGACY_BLKPTR_FORMAT_ID
PRAGRAM_TABLE_1 to BLKPTR_FORMAT_ID
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
To make the code easier to maintain and prepare for ECKD LD-IPL,
split up install_bootloader() into two functions: One which is used
for IPL, and one for dump partitions.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
Related Valgrind output:
==1073934== 241,722,000 bytes in 30 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 2 of 2
==1073934== at 0x484417C: malloc (in /usr/libexec/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-s390x-linux.so)
==1073934== by 0x1006B8D: misc_malloc (misc.c:33)
==1073934== by 0x1006B8D: misc_read_file (misc.c:150)
==1073934== by 0x100DACD: check_common_ipl_data (job.c:774)
==1073934== by 0x100FE2F: check_job_ipl_data (job.c:827)
==1073934== by 0x100FE2F: check_job_menu_data (job.c:999)
==1073934== by 0x100FE2F: check_job_data (job.c:1139)
==1073934== by 0x100FE2F: job_get (job.c:2011)
==1073934== by 0x1006335: main (zipl.c:141)
Reviewed-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
Valgrind finding:
==1083976== 19 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1 of 1
==1083976== at 0x484417C: malloc (in /usr/libexec/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-s390x-linux.so)
==1083976== by 0x48F3C97: __vasprintf_internal (vasprintf.c:71)
==1083976== by 0x1006861: vasprintf (stdio2.h:218)
==1083976== by 0x1006861: misc_asprintf (misc.c:49)
==1083976== by 0x100C7E1: scan_update_bls_path (scan.c:1874)
==1083976== by 0x100FF4B: get_job_from_config_file (job.c:1901)
==1083976== by 0x100FF4B: job_get (job.c:1997)
==1083976== by 0x1006335: main (zipl.c:141)
Reviewed-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
Before commit 5fb6434548 ("zipl: add get_common_components() and
finalize_common_address_data()") the default kernel parmline was only
overwritten if a parmline was specified. After the commit it was always
overwritten, even if no parmline was specified. Let's change this
behavior back by adding a NULL-pointer check. For dump types this change
changes the behavior before commit 5fb6434548 ("zipl: add
get_common_components() and finalize_common_address_data()").
Fixes: 5fb6434548 ("zipl: add get_common_components() and finalize_common_address_data()")
Reviewed-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
The current code has different paths to construct the kernel parameters
depending on whether it's a dump kernel or a normal kernel. This would
require adding special handling to get_common_component(), because for
normal kernels the parmline is already set, contrary to dump kernels,
where the command line is constructed later.
To make the code simpler and fix a bug where the default command line no
longer works, move the dump command line processing to an earlier stage.
Also rename the old function to make the function name match what it is
actually doing.
Fixes: 5fb6434548 ("zipl: add get_common_components() and finalize_common_address_data()")
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, each generated loader binary is linked into one data.o object
file which is then linked against boot.o. The data.o file is also used
to generate the data.h header file using nm, which will contain all
symbols required by zipl.
The linking process is somewhat depended on the directory, as the symbol
names are derived from the file names of the input files, which is the
default behavior of the linker. The file name in this case being the
entire path.
Examples for the current situation (starting from root dir in each case):
$ cd zipl/boot && make eckd0_cdl.bin
$ cc -no-pie -static -nostdlib -Wl,--relocatable -Wl,--format,binary -o data.o eckd0_cdl.bin
$ nm data.o
0000000000000018 D _binary_eckd0_cdl_bin_end
0000000000000018 A _binary_eckd0_cdl_bin_size
0000000000000000 D _binary_eckd0_cdl_bin_start
$ make -C zipl/boot eckd0_cdl.bin
$ cc -no-pie -static -nostdlib -Wl,--relocatable -Wl,--format,binary -o data.o zipl/boot/eckd0_cdl.bin
$ nm data.o
000000000000018 D _binary_zipl_boot_eckd0_cdl_bin_end
000000000000018 A _binary_zipl_boot_eckd0_cdl_bin_size
000000000000000 D _binary_zipl_boot_eckd0_cdl_bin_start
The example above shows that the entire path would end up in the symbol
name if specified that way.
To make this more robust, future proof, and get more control of the
resulting symbol names, use '.incbin' and some macros for embedding the
loader binary files. This also reduces the linker step and the
generation of the data.h header file.
Reviewed-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Co-developed-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Use linker script for all bootloaders instead of having the load
addresses of the bootloaders hard-coded in the Makefile. This allows us
to simplify the Makefile and it fixes the dependency tracking for the
bootloaders *0.bin, *1.bin, and *1b.bin.
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
This allows the reuse of the macro in the next patch. In order to match
the naming scheme rename `STAGE1B_LOAD_ADDR` to `STAGE1B_LOAD_ADDRESS`.
Acked-by: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Instead of maintaining an include list, use an exclude list (if
neccessary). This simplifies the `objcopy` calls a lot, and it's
possible because `objcopy -O binary` only includes the memory dump of
the contents of the input object file. [1] This means that sections like
for debug information that do not occupy memory during the process
execution are discarded by design. [2]
In addition, if we do not want a particular ELF section, we can list it
in the discard section of the linker script.
[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/objcopy.1.html
[2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/elf.5.html
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
This disables the following warning `ld: warning: stage3.exec has a LOAD
segment with RWX permissions` for newer linker. This changes nothing in
functionality for the zipl bootloaders, since only the binaries and not
the ELF files are actually used.
Acked-by: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Normally, `gcc` takes care of adding the `GNU_STACK` marking except for
assembly code. Therefore, let's add the marking manually. Discard the
`.note.GNU-stack` section in the linker script since it's just a
"message" from the compiler to the linker. This fixes the linker
warning:
ld: warning: entry.o: missing .note.GNU-stack section implies executable stack
Acked-by: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
The ELF section `.eh_frame` is used for frame unwinding during, for
example, exception handling and the section `.interp` is used by the
program interpreter. [1] Since no frame unwinding nor a program
interpreter is used for the bootloaders we can discard these input
section.
The content of the (exec|bin) files don't change after this change.
[1] https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_1.2.0/gLSB/specialsections.html
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Fix the improper order of resource releasing resulted in failed umount
Do umount after closing (not before)
Fixes: f7d2339 (zipl: List-Directed IPL from ECKD DASD)
Reported-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
Make zipl tool prepare ECKD DASD for booting by different IPL
programs (with the same boot record installed).
Besides standard CCW-type IPL, user gets an ability to trigger
(with the same boot record installed!) List-Directed IPL. This
allows to use the feature of secure boot from ECKD DASD (which
is not available for CCW-type IPL).
When using the old boot interfaces, the usual CCW-type IPL is
triggered for DASD. Also for compatibility reasons zipl(8) tool
is modified to create and install one, or two "similar" program
tables per boot partition, depending on job and disk type. The
"similar" program tables differ only in block pointers format.
The old IPL programs (CCW-type IPL) use program table based on the
old format.
All program tables are packed to the same bootmap file. Their
order and logical offsets in the file are not significant (not
used by anyone).
The picture below shows which program table is used for IPL of
specified type from disk of specified type. Here "0" and "1" are
identifiers of program tables based on the old and new block
pointers format respectively. E.g. program table "0" is used for
CCW-type IPL from ECKD DASD. LD-IPL from DASD FBA is unsupported
(respectively, only one program table "0" is used), etc.
CCW-IPL LD-IPL
SCSI X 0
DASD FBA 0 X
ECKD DASD LDL 0 X
ECKD DASD CDL 0 1
Signed-off-by: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Set up the secure_boot_supported global variable at the
function bootmap_create() instead of bootmap_create_device()
to make sure that the secure boot status is checked for all
relevant jobs.
Fixes: 7b369318dd ("zipl: check for secure boot once")
Signed-off-by: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Prevent double free/close that happens in get_multipath_status()
when the output of "dmsetup status XXX" is empty
Fixes: 599b141 ("zipl: Rewrite helper script in C")
Signed-off-by: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
This patch enhances the zipl stage3 loader image adding a trailer as
required for secure boot by future firmware versions.
Note: with the change in this patch the padding via objcopy command line
options is replaced by padding via linker script directives with the
same effect.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
The dracut installation directory is referenced from `chreipl-fcp-mpath`,
`zdev`, and `zipl`; in each with its own individual definition and
variable name. This makes it unnecessarily hard to change it when
installing from the top level directory of s390-tools and passing
variable overwrites via the command line.
Fix this by defining a common `DRACUTDIR` variable in the shared
`common.mak` file, and referencing this in each tool as base directory.
With this a user can simply pass `DRACUTDIR=/foo/bar/baz` on the
commandline and change the installation for all three tools.
Further, also derive common `DRACUTCONFDIR` and `DRACUTMODDIR` variables
from `DRACUTDIR` in `common.mak`, so that `zdev` and `zipl` don't use
different variable names for the same directory anymore, and all these
are defined together in a common place.
Semantically nothing changes for a default build/installation.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes a bug that leads to a segmentation fault when no parmline is
provided.
Fixes: 11b401b5 ("zipl: move and make check for maximum command line length dynamic")
Signed-off-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
This instruction is not present on older machines, therefore
use ltr.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 1627c6a39f ("zipl: Support command lines longer than 896 bytes in bootloader")
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
This commit finalizes the implementation of the new stand-alone dump -
Next Gen Dump (NGDump).
NGDump stand-alone dump is a universal stand-alone dump which works for both
SCSI and NVMe disks. But currently can be used only with NVMe disks
and SCSI stand-alone dump remains the default for SCSI disks.
Currently, this stand-alone dump can be used only on IBM z15 or newer
machine generations because it requires larger amount of HSA memory offered
by firmware only on IBM z15 machines. Whereas SCSI stand-alone dump is able
to work with HSA memory of 32M, the new stand-alone dump requires 512M HSA
memory at the moment.
NGDump stand-alone dump installation is initiated by passing a path to
a NVMe disk partition to zipl via the command-line -d, similar to SCSI
stand-alone dump. zipl will then:
- build a dumper initramfs with either dracut (Fedora/RHEL/SLES) or
initramfs-tools (Ubuntu/Debian)
- format the given NVMe partition with ext4 file system
- create a bootmap file on the newly created file system using the built
initramfs and the currently active kernel image
- install a boot loader on the disk the given dump partition belongs to
The operations described above are destructive for the given NVMe dump
partition and the boot record(s) of its disk.
After the installation step, users can configure the dumpconf to IPL
the dumper automatically on panic or trigger a dump manually via HMC
interface.
When activated, the dumper will create a dump ELF file named "dump.elf"
on the given NVMe dump partition by using the makedumpfile tool. The kdump
compressed file format is not supported yet due to zgetdump not being able
to read such a file format. Therefore, the dumper is restricted to write
the dump only in ELF format but only kernel pages which are in use.
This will usually make the dump smaller than the original size of
/proc/vmcore and the whole dump process faster as well.
Example configuration for dumpconf:
ON_PANIC=dump # or dump_reipl
DUMP_TYPE=nvme
FID=0x00000001
NSID=0x00000001
BOOTPROG=0
BR_LBA=0
$ systemctl enable --now dumpconf
To install the dracut support on Fedora/RHEL/SUSE:
$ make -C zipl/dracut HAVE_DRACUT=1 install
To install the initramfs-tools support on Ubuntu/Debian:
$ make -C zipl/initramfs-tools HAVE_INITRAMFS=1 install
Example of NGDump console output on SLES during dump
----------------------------------------------------
Starting NGDump...
[ 8.932343] ngdump.sh[327]: NGDump started
[ 8.934739] ngdump.sh[336]: Checking for memory holes : [ 0.0 %] /
[ 8.967536] ngdump.sh[336]: Checking for memory holes : [100.0 %] |
[ 9.076976] ngdump.sh[336]: Excluding unnecessary pages : [100.0 %] \
[ 11.721157] ngdump.sh[336]: Copying data : [ 0.0 %] -
[ 12.317319] ngdump.sh[336]: Copying data : [ 22.5 %] / eta: 2s
[ 13.273000] ngdump.sh[336]: Copying data : [100.0 %] | eta: 0s
[ 13.273244] ngdump.sh[336]: The kernel version is not supported.
[ 13.273263] ngdump.sh[336]: The makedumpfile operation may be incomplete.
[ 13.273281] ngdump.sh[336]: The dumpfile is saved to /ngdump/dump.elf.
[ 13.273299] ngdump.sh[336]: makedumpfile Completed.
Example of NGDump console output on Ubuntu during dump
-------------------------------------------------------
[ 3.240078] zdump: The dump process started for a 64-bit operating system
Loading, please wait...
Starting version 245.4-4ubuntu3.17
Begin: Starting firmware auto-configuration ... done.
Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ...
Begin: NGDump ...
Checking for memory holes : [ 0.0 %] /
Checking for memory holes : [100.0 %] |
Excluding unnecessary pages : [100.0 %] \
Copying data : [ 0.0 %] -
Copying data : [ 40.7 %] / eta: 1s
Copying data : [100.0 %] | eta: 0s
The kernel version is not supported.
The makedumpfile operation may be incomplete.
The dumpfile is saved to /ngdump/dump.elf.
makedumpfile Completed.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
The purpose of the new zipl helper script is to build a dumper initramfs
for NGDump stand-alone dump. zipl executes the helper script when
preparing a NVMe dump partition for stand-alone dump.
The zipl helper script expects a single parameter - a path to the dump
partition to store a dump on. The helper script terminates with 0 on
success and a positive value otherwise.
The zipl helper script performs the following steps:
- It builds an initramfs image suitable for dumping. To perform this step,
the script employs the dracut tool on Fedora/RHEL/SLES and
the initramfs-tools on Ubuntu/Debian.
- It outputs the path to the newly built initramfs image and the currently
active kernel bzImage on the standard output.
- It prints the kernel command-line to be used by the dumper on
the standard output.
On success, zipl expects the helper script to return at least three lines
containing:
- initrd=<path to an initramfs image>
- kernel=<path to a kernel bzImage>
- cmdline=<kernel command-line parameters>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
The NGDump initramfs-tools module is required to build an initramfs image
to be used with NGDump stand-alone dump. NGDump stand-alone dump does not
use a pre-built initramfs image in contrast to SCSI stand-alone dump.
Instead, an initramfs image is built with initramfs-tools if NGDump
stand-alone dump is installed on a NVMe partition.
The NGDump initramfs-tools module ensures that all necessary tools are
present within the built initramfs and a dump of /proc/vmcore is initiated
to the chosen NVMe partition when the installed dumper is IPLed.
The NGDump intramfs-tools module installs a configuration file and
a dump script into dumper initramfs. This dump script starts at boot
shortly after the initialization of the dump target device. It reads
the aforementioned configuration file that contains the name of a dump
partition to store a dump on. The dump script reads the configuration file,
mounts then the dump target device, creates a copy of /proc/vmcore with
the makedumpfile tool on it, and then shuts down the system.
Ubuntu and Debian are the main Linux distributions targeted by this
initramfs-tools module.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
The NGDump dracut module is required to build an initramfs image to be used
with NGDump stand-alone dump. NGDump stand-alone dump does not
use a pre-built initramfs image in contrast to SCSI stand-alone dump.
Instead, an initramfs image is built with dracut if NGDump stand-alone dump
is installed on a NVMe partition.
The NGDump dracut module ensures that all necessary tools are present
within the built initramfs and a dump of /proc/vmcore is initiated
to the chosen NVMe partition when the installed dumper is IPLed.
The NGDump dracut module installs a new systemd service and a dump script
into dumper initramfs. The systemd init process starts the NGDump service
at boot shortly after the initialization of the dump target device.
The NGDump systemd service, in its turn, starts the dump script provided
by the new dracut module. The dump script mounts then the dump target
device, creates a copy of /proc/vmcore with the makedumpfile tool on it,
and then shuts down the system.
The NGDump dracut module can be used on any Linux distribution which
supports dracut. But the primary targets are:
- Fedora
- RHEL
- SLES
Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
This change adds a new parameter to the function bootmap_create_file()
that requires the caller to specify a path to the directory where
a bootmap file will be created. The primary motivation for this change is
to support NVMe stand-alone dump, in that case the job's bootmap directory
is not set.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
The purpose of this change is to simplify the function
bootmap_create_device() and make it more readable. Furthermore,
the dump partition check can be reused for NVMe dump partitions later on.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
The purpose of this change is to simplify the function
bootmap_create_device() and make it more readable.
Furthermore, make bootmap_create_device() more robust by checking the return
value of disk_write_block_aligned().
Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
The purpose of this change is to simplify the function bootmap_create(),
make it more readable and prepare for new changes that will follow.
The original function bootmap_create() tried to handle two different cases
and, therefore, contained many conditional statements which had a negative
effect on readability.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
