On Wednesday 28 December 2016 10:03 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
This patch series adds kdump support on arm64.
To load a crash-dump kernel to the systems, a series of patches to
kexec-tools[1] are also needed. Please use the latest one, v4 [2].
For your convinience, you can pick them up from:
https://git.linaro.org/people/takahiro.akashi/linux-aarch64.git arm64/kdump
https://git.linaro.org/people/takahiro.akashi/kexec-tools.git arm64/kdump
To examine vmcore (/proc/vmcore) on a crash-dump kernel, you can use
- crash utility (v7.1.7 or later) [3]
(As of today, the very latest tree cannot handle a core image correctly
due to the commit 7fd8329ba502 ("taint/module: Clean up global and module
taint flags handling")
The previous version, v27, was also:
Tested-by: Pratyush Anand <redacted> (mustang and seattle)
You have my "Tested-by" for this version as well :-). Patches works
great after applying them over v4.10-rc2.
I used crash-utility from below where there are few patches queued for
crash-7.1.8
https://github.com/crash-utility/crash
~Pratyush