Hi Geoff, On 3/4/2016 4:51 PM, Geoff Levand wrote: > To load a second stage kernel and execute a kexec re-boot or to work with kdump > on ARM64 systems a series of patches to kexec-tools [2], which have not yet been > merged upstream, are needed. Please update to the latest if you have been using > an older version. > > To examine vmcore (/proc/vmcore), you should use > - gdb v7.7 or later > - crash v7.1.1 or later > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geoff/linux-kexec.git > [2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geoff/kexec-tools.git > kexec-tools is still passing "mem=" parameter to the crash dump kernel which causes it to crash with ACPI. You can revert commit "arm64: kdump: pass "mem=" parameter to a crash dump kernel" in kexec-tools. Also, some version of the following patch from Pratyush is also still needed: https://github.com/pratyushanand/kexec-tools/commit/85f403cabb9ae0d7a37d1656a00fb609a9525086 -- Thanks, Azriel Samson Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
