Pratyush,

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 10:43:00PM +0530, Pratyush Anand wrote:

Hi Ruslan,

On 29/07/2016:07:26:03 PM, Ruslan Bilovol wrote:

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Hi,

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:09 AM, AKASHI Takahiro
[off-list ref] wrote:

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On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 04:56:51PM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:

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This patch series adds kdump support on arm64.

To load a crash-dump kernel to the systems, a series of patches to
kexec-tools, which have not yet been merged upstream, are needed.
Please pick Geoff's kexec patches [1] and my kdump patches [2].

To examine vmcore (/proc/vmcore) on a crash-dump kernel, you can use
  - crash utility (coming v7.1.6 or later) [3]
    (Necessary patches have already been queued in the master.)

[1]  http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2016-July/016532.html
[2]  TBD

See my kexec-tools patches in:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2016-July/016642.html

I tired this patch series with mentioned Geoff's kexec patches and
your kdump patches, but unfortunately it doesn't work for me.

While I can successfully load and kexec the kernel ('kexec --load' +
'kexec -e'), same combination of kernel+ramdisk+dtb doesn't boot
if I do kdump combination ('kexec -p' + sysrq crash), there is no
any output after sysrq crash trace.
Unfortunately I don't have any debugger here for deep investigation
of this issue.

Which type of image do you have? I did face issue with binary image which I
fixed in my branch, while elf would work fine for kdump as well.

Can you describe in more details, please?
I don't see any problems with either vmlinux or image
in my environment.

Thanks,
-Takahiro AKASHI

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Also for some reason in case of 'load and kexec the kernel' it
takes 1-2 minutes to start booting after I do kexec -e, need to
investigate it further.

Because, D-cache is disabled.

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Which hardware do you use for validating your patches?

Also, could you please share exact commands you use for
kdump validation?

Well, I have some patches for D-cache enabling, which will be sent for review
after these set of kexec and kdump patches are merged.

Meanwhile, you can use them and give your feedback. They are here:
https://github.com/pratyushanand/kexec-tools.git : upstream_arm64_devel

I use following command with my test branch. You can ignore --port and
--port-lsr in your setup. You may use --enable-dcache and  let me know if it
works for you and improves execution speed. You may need to change vmlinux and
inird name as per your setup.

for kexec test:
kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` --initrd=/boot/initramfs-`uname -r`.img
--reuse-cmdline --enable-dcache --port=0x1c020000
--port-lsr=0x1c020014,0x60;kexec -e

for kdump test:
kexec -p /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` --initrd=/boot/initramfs-`uname -r`kdump.img
--reuse-cmdline --enable-dcache --port=0x1c020000 --port-lsr=0x1c020014,0x60
--append="irqpoll maxcpus=1 reset_devices"; echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger

~Pratyush