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s390-tools/hsavmcore/initramfs/sles
Alexander Egorenkov f8d3e5069a hsavmcore: add dracut modules and systemd services for kdump initramfs
* Provide a dracut module and a systemd service for Fedora, RHEL and SLES.
* Provide a systemd service for Ubuntu.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
2021-06-18 13:20:08 +02:00
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Setup

Configure crashkernel

sudo vim /etc/default/grub
sudo sed -e 's/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="\(.*\)"/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="\1 crashkernel=512M"/' \
         -i /etc/default/grub
sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
sudo reboot

Production kernel's root file system

  • kdump mounts the production kernel's root file system under /kdump/mnt1.

Dependencies

sudo zypper install -y fuse fuse-devel systemd-devel

Build hsavmcore

make -C s390-tools/hsavmcore

Install hsavmcore

sudo cp s390-tools/hsavmcore/hsavmcore /usr/sbin/

Create swap file

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/crash/swap.img bs=1M count=1024
sudo mkswap /var/crash/swap.img

Install hsavmcore.conf

Test configuration

  • Doesn't require HSA support

HSA cache in file

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/hsavmcore.conf
verbose = 2
workdir = /kdump/mnt1/var/crash
use_hsa_mem = 0
mount_debugfs = 1
hsa_size = 0x1ffff000
release_hsa = 0
bind_mount_vmcore = 1
EOF

HSA cache in memory

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/hsavmcore.conf
verbose = 2
workdir = /kdump/mnt1/var/crash
use_hsa_mem = 1
mount_debugfs = 1
hsa_size = 0x1ffff000
release_hsa = 0
bind_mount_vmcore = 1
swap = /kdump/mnt1/var/crash/swap.img
EOF

Production configuration

  • Works only on s390x

HSA cache in file

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/hsavmcore.conf
verbose = 2
workdir = /kdump/mnt1/var/crash
use_hsa_mem = 0
mount_debugfs = 1
hsa_size = -1
release_hsa = 1
bind_mount_vmcore = 1
EOF

HSA cache in memory

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/hsavmcore.conf
verbose = 2
workdir = /kdump/mnt1/var/crash
use_hsa_mem = 1
mount_debugfs = 1
hsa_size = -1
release_hsa = 1
bind_mount_vmcore = 1
swap = /kdump/mnt1/var/crash/swap.img
EOF

Install new dracut module

sudo cp -r s390-tools/hsavmcore/initramfs/sles/dracut/modules.d/99hsavmcore /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/

Add the new dracut module as a dependency to the dracut module kdump

sudo sed -e 's/_modules\[drm\]=/_modules[drm]=\n    _modules[hsavmcore]=/' \
         -i /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99kdump/module-setup.sh

Rebuild kdump initramfs

sudo mkdumprd -f

Reload kdump

systemctl enable kdump
systemctl restart kdump

Test

echo c | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger