On 09/19/14 at 05:52am, CAI Qian wrote: > I plan to release an automated kdump testsuite that will be > focus on testing kernel and the crash utility. It should work > for all major distros since it will use none of distro-specific > stuff, and also support different arches including x86, ARM, > PPC64 and s390x. > > It does the following: > 1) check if there is a memory reserved for kdump. If not, > reserve the memory and reboot the system. > 2) once the system is back, load kexec on panic and > prepare a separate initramfs that including needed > modules to load a local filesystem and necessary utilities > in order to analyse /proc/vmcore in the 2nd kernel. > 3) trigger the system crash using methods like sysrq-c, NMI, > and panic_on_hung_task etc. > 4) in the 2nd kernel, mount a filesystem and use the crash > utility to analyse /proc/vmcore. Then, gather the analyse > logs, serial console output, dmesg etc into the filesystem. > 5) reboot back into the 1st kernel. > > implementation: > It will setup a daemon to handle reboots. > > plan: > I might also to test the makedumpfile all together later. > CAI Qian > Hi, Cai I noticed you cced redhat internal lists, you'd better to remove them from cc list so that people do not get confused by the auto reply. Thanks Dave
