linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/3] vmcoreinfo support for dump filtering

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Date:	Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:08:38 +0900
From:	"Ken'ichi Ohmichi" <oomichi@....nes.nec.co.jp>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kexec-ml <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>,
	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>,
	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>,
	Dan Aloni <da-x@...atomic.org>,
	"Ken'ichi Ohmichi" <oomichi@....nes.nec.co.jp>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] vmcoreinfo support for dump filtering

Hi Andrew,

This patch set frees the restriction that makedumpfile users should
install a vmlinux file (including the debugging information) into
each system.

makedumpfile command is the dump filtering feature for kdump.
It creates a small dumpfile by filtering unnecessary pages for the
analysis. To distinguish unnecessary pages, it needs a vmlinux file
including the debugging information. These days, the debugging package
becomes a huge file, and it is hard to install it into each system.

To solve the problem, kdump developers discussed it at lkml and kexec-ml.
As the result, we reached the conclusion that necessary information
for dump filtering (called "vmcoreinfo") should be embedded into the
first kernel file and it should be accessed through /proc/vmcore
during the second kernel.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/1806.html) 

Dan Aloni created the patch set for the above implementation.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1053.html)

And I updated it for multi architectures and memory models.
(http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000479.html)

PATCH SET:
[1/3] [linux] Add vmcoreinfo
  The patch is for linux-2.6.22.
  The patch adds the vmcoreinfo data. Its address and size are output
  to /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo.

[2/3] [kexec-tools] Pass vmcoreinfo's address and size
  The patch is for kexec-tools-testing-20070330.
  (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/)
  kexec command gets the address and size of the vmcoreinfo data from
  /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo, and passes them to the second kernel through
  ELF header of /proc/vmcore. When the second kernel is booting, the
  kernel gets them from the ELF header and creates vmcoreinfo's PT_NOTE
  segment into /proc/vmcore.

[3/3] [makedumpfile] Extract vmcoreinfo from /proc/vmcore
  The patch is for makedumpfile v1.1.6.
  (https://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/)
  makedumpfile command extracts the vmcoreinfo data from /proc/vmcore
  and uses it for dump filtering.

Usage:
- Run the first kernel applied with [PATCH 1/3].
- Preload the second kernel by the kexec-tools applied with [PATCH 2/3].
- Cause panic and switch to the second kernel.
- Get a dumpfile by the makedumpfile applied with [PATCH 3/3]:
  (Ex.) # makedumpfile -cd31 /proc/vmcore dumpfile

Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
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