linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xen, kdump: handle pv domain in paddr_vmcoreinfo

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Message-ID: <20170407111622.3dfe44fe@hananiah.suse.cz>
Date:   Fri, 7 Apr 2017 11:16:22 +0200
From:   Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.com>
To:     Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>
Cc:     <jgross@...e.com>, <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>, <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
        <eric.devolder@...cle.com>, <dkiper@...-space.pl>,
        <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xen, kdump: handle pv domain in
 paddr_vmcoreinfo_note()

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 13:13:00 +0200
Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 12:42:53 -0700 (PDT)
> Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com> wrote:
> 
>[...]
> > So, if Petr did relevant tests that is nice. However, then, IMO, this
> > patch begs Petr Tested-by.
> 
> Actually, I tested with this patch applied on top of kernel 4.4 (SLES
> 12 SP2). It matches what traditional Xen had always done, so I am quite
> confident it will work with a later kernel, but to give my Tested-by,
> let me first re-run the test on master, hopefully until today EOB.

It took me much longer than anticipated (I had some trouble setting up
the host again), but I can confirm that the patch works as expected on
top of 4.11-rc5.

Without the patch, makedumpfile in the crash kernel complains:

/proc/vmcore doesn't contain vmcoreinfo.

With the patch applied, dumping still fails later because of an
unrelated bug in makedumpfile, but I was able to extract the kernel
message buffer with "makedumpfile --dump-dmesg". This already confirms
VMCOREINFO presence and usability.

So finally,

Tested-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.com>

Petr Tesarik