Hi Baoquan, On Wed, 2024-01-24 at 13:12 +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > By splitting CRASH_RESERVE and VMCORE_INFO out from CRASH_CORE, cleaning > up the dependency of FA_DMUMP on CRASH_DUMP, and moving crash codes from > kexec_core.c to crash_core.c, now we can rearrange CRASH_DUMP to > depend on KEXEC_CORE, and make CRASH_DUMP select CRASH_RESERVE and > VMCORE_INFO. > > KEXEC_CORE won't select CRASH_RESERVE and VMCORE_INFO any more because > KEXEC_CORE enables codes which allocate control pages, copy > kexec/kdump segments, and prepare for switching. These codes are shared > by both kexec reboot and crash dumping. > > Doing this makes codes and the corresponding config items more > logical (the right item depends on or is selected by the left item). > > PROC_KCORE -----------> VMCORE_INFO > > |----------> VMCORE_INFO > FA_DUMP----| > |----------> CRASH_RESERVE > > ---->VMCORE_INFO > / > |---->CRASH_RESERVE > KEXEC --| /| > |--> KEXEC_CORE--> CRASH_DUMP-->/-|---->PROC_VMCORE > KEXEC_FILE --| \ | > \---->CRASH_HOTPLUG > > KEXEC --| > |--> KEXEC_CORE--> kexec reboot > KEXEC_FILE --| > > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > kernel/Kconfig.kexec | 7 ++++--- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.kexec b/kernel/Kconfig.kexec > index 8faf27043432..6c34e63c88ff 100644 > --- a/kernel/Kconfig.kexec > +++ b/kernel/Kconfig.kexec > @@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ config VMCORE_INFO > bool > > config KEXEC_CORE > - select VMCORE_INFO > - select CRASH_RESERVE > bool > > config KEXEC_ELF > @@ -99,8 +97,11 @@ config KEXEC_JUMP > > config CRASH_DUMP > bool "kernel crash dumps" > + default y > depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_DUMP > - select KEXEC_CORE > + depends on KEXEC_CORE > + select VMCORE_INFO > + select CRASH_RESERVE > help > Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. > This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels The change to enable CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP by default apparently broke the boot on 32-bit Power Macintosh systems which fail after GRUB with: "Error: You can't boot a kdump kernel from OF!" We may have to turn this off for 32-bit Power Macintosh systems. See this thread on debian-powerpc ML: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2024/07/msg00001.html Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
