On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:14:07PM +0900, tachibana at mxm.nes.nec.co.jp wrote: > > Hi Simon, > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:37:41 +0900, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:16:19PM +0900, Ken'ichi Ohmichi wrote: > > > > > > Hi Simon, > > > > > > Simon Horman wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:13:39PM +0900, Ken'ichi Ohmichi wrote: > > > >> [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. > > > > > > > > Sorry for the long delay, I completely missed this patch. > > > > > > > > The kexec-tools change seems ok to me. What is the status of > > > > the kernel portion of the change? > > > > > > The kernel portion is merged into linux-2.6.23-mm1. > > > According to Andrew's mail "-mm merge plans for 2.6.24", its status is > > > "The infamous misc. Will re-review and will merge basically all of them". > > > > > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0710.0/0313.html > > > > > > > > > > Do you still want the kexec-tools portion applied? > > > > > > Yes, I hope so. > > > > Thanks, applied :-) > > Thank you for applying ;-) > > But it has the compatibility problem that the kexec command fails on > kernels which don't have /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo: > > # ls /sys/kernel/ > debug kexec_crash_loaded kexec_loaded security uevent_helper > uevent_seqnum > # > (There is not /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo.) > > # > # kexec -p --args-linux vmlinuz --initrd=initrd.img > Could not open "/sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo": No such file or directory > # > > To fix the problem, could you please apply the attached patch ? > The fixed part is the same as the patch in the following mail. Thanks, applied.
