Hi,
I released a new makedumpfile (version 1.2.0) with vmcoreinfo support.
I updated the patches for linux and kexec-tools.
- Change of linux patch:
Old makedumpfile assumed some values (the size of nodemask_t and the
value of NR_FREE_PAGES), and it was not good on the reliability viewpoint.
For the reliability improvement, makedumpfile came to need these values
and I updated the kernel patch to output them.
- Chage of kexec-tools patch:
Vivek Goyal informed that the kexec command with old vmcoreinfo patch
didn't work on kernels without vmcoreinfo patch. It gave the following
error message, so I updated the patch of kexec-tools for fixing the
problem:
Could not open "/sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo": No such file or directory
PATCH SET:
[1/2] [linux-2.6.22] 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.
Changelog:
- Add the size of nodemask_t and the value of NR_FREE_PAGES to the
vmcoreinfo data.
[2/2] [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.
Changelog:
- Fix the problem that the kexec command cannnot be executed on kernels
without vmcoreinfo.
Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
