While changing the helper script to create the ngdump filesystem,
some lines were left in the script which now cause the zipl
installation to fail:
Run /lib/s390-tools/zipl_helper.prepare-ngdump /dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.6a56-part1 0
Couldn't find disk by PARTUUID.
Error: Script could not determine dump parameters
Remove the superfluous lines to fix this.
Fixes: 41108c98aa ("zipl: move mkfs to ngdump prepare script")
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@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>
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>
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 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>
