On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:44:29PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I thought I had x86 biarch crashdump working on x86 but it turns > out was wrong. So I have merged crashdump-x86.c and crashdump-x86_64.c > to ensure that things will work fine. > > There are a few misc cleanups in here to support biarch crashdumps. > > There is a kexec bzImage load optimization that allows me to use > a 64bit crash kernel in 20M in my setup. Perhaps less. Earlier > because of an alighment foulup I needed 32M and the kernel was > loaded in the middle of the reserved crashdump region. > > There is also a new program vmcore-dmesg. Functionally it is very > similar to the makedumpfile's --dmesg mode but it handles all of the > crazy multi-arch cases so I only need to keep one binary around to strip > the kernel's dmesg out of a core file. Additionally vmcore-dmesg is > about half the size of makedumpfile and I can build it against uclibc, > which makes it much more usable in my constrained initrd setup. > > I would post patches but I know I would fat finger that horribly. > > git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/kexec-tools-devel.git A git pull request is fine. Actually, with this many patches, its significantly easier for me too. > --- [ snip ] > commit c8e346688c6358427213d9d6fdb83765e365cccd > Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> > Date: Tue Sep 7 12:05:40 2010 -0700 > > crashdump: Move kern_vaddr_start from kexec_info into crash_elf_info > > These fields as defined in kexec_info are not biarch safe and > beyond that crash_elf_info is the structure for passing this kind > of information not kexec_info. So move them in prepartion for > properly cleaning up biarch x86 functionality. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> There appears to be a typo in the following hunk of this patch. I can fix this if you prefer. diff --git a/kexec/arch/ia64/crashdump-ia64.c b/kexec/arch/ia64/crashdump-ia64.c index 6b64271..5653e6e 100644 --- a/kexec/arch/ia64/crashdump-ia64.c +++ b/kexec/arch/ia64/crashdump-ia64.c @@ -246,11 +246,11 @@ int load_crashdump_segments(struct kexec_info *info, struct mem_ehdr *ehdr, continue; if (kernel_code_start >= mstart && kernel_code_start < mend) { - info->kern_vaddr_start = mstart + LOAD_OFFSET; + elf_info.kern_vaddr_start = mstart + LOAD_OFFSET; break; } } - info->kern_size = kernel_code_end - kernel_code_start + 1; + elf_info->kern_size = kernel_code_end - kernel_code_start + 1; -------> elf_info->kern_size should be elf_info.kern_size ? if (crash_create_elf64_headers(info, &elf_info, crash_memory_range, nr_ranges, &tmp, &sz, EFI_PAGE_SIZE) < 0) Which results in the following build error: $ make ia64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -Wall -Wextra -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/home/horms/local/opt/crosstool/ia64/gcc-3.4.5-glibc-2.3.6/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -I./include -I./util_lib/include -Iinclude/ -I./kexec/arch/ia64/libfdt -I./kexec/arch/ia64/include -c -MD -o kexec/arch/ia64/crashdump-ia64.o kexec/arch/ia64/crashdump-ia64.c kexec/arch/ia64/crashdump-ia64.c: In function `load_crashdump_segments': kexec/arch/ia64/crashdump-ia64.c:253: error: invalid type argument of `->' > > commit d9bf000b6260ee4558b2d2eb3af08e09cd1fe794 > Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> > Date: Tue Sep 7 11:42:39 2010 -0700 > > kexec: Kill arch_init > > The function only had one user, the error checking was wrong, > and the functions it performed are best done elsewhere > so remove the tempation of a problemenatic hook. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> [ snip ]