On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx> wrote: > * jidong xiao [2008-08-27 17:51]: >> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hi Jidong, >> > >> > * jidong xiao [2008-08-27 17:01]: >> >> >> >> I encountered the zero-size-vmcore issue on IA64. I remember last year >> >> Nanhai submitted a patch which was intended to fix this issue, and I >> >> noticed that patch is merged into mainline kernel. I am using >> >> 2.6.27-rc2, which means that patch is included in my kernel.And after >> >> the system >> >> completed rebooting, there is nothing generated in KDUMP_SAVEDIR. Let >> >> me know if I need to provide more information.Thanks. >> > >> > Which version of kexec-tools do you use? >> > >> Well I am using SLES10SP2,(I tried the experiments on SLES10SP2 >> default kernel and also 2.6.27-rc2 mainline kernel, result is the >> same.) > > With the SP2 default kernel, it should work. At lest /proc/vmcore > should have a normal size. Can you set KDUMP_IMMEDIATE_REBOOT to "no", > then log in in the serial console and execute > > # ls -l /proc/vmcore I am sorry to say, I tried to follow your instruction but finally the out put is zero. lfg-ia64:~ # ls -l /proc/vmcore -r-------- 1 root root 0 2008-08-27 18:40 /proc/vmcore > > For 2.6.27 kernel on IA64, you have to update kexec-tools. I don't know > the exact version when the change was included, but 2.0.0 is safe. :) > Okay I will try to update kexec-tools and do the experiment again then report it. In addition following I attached the dmesg info, among other things, I saw one message: "Cannot locate EFI vmcore descriptor", this probably implies that something is wrong, though I have no idea. lfg-ia64:~ # dmesg Linux version 2.6.27-rc2-test (root@lfg-ia64) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070115 (SUSE Linux)) #8 SMP Wed Aug 27 13:54:51 CST 2008 Ignoring memory below 256MB Ignoring memory above 512MB EFI v1.10 by INTEL: SALsystab=0x7fe4c8c0 ACPI=0x7ff99000 ACPI 2.0=0x7ff98000 MPS=0x7ff97000 SMBIOS=0xf0000 booting generic kernel on platform dig ACPI: RSDP 7FF98000, 0024 (r2 INTEL ) ACPI: XSDT 7FF98090, 003C (r1 INTEL SR870BH2 1072002 MSFT 10013) ACPI: FACP 7FF98138, 00F4 (r3 INTEL SR870BH2 1072002 MSFT 10013) ACPI: DSDT 7FF9A000, 292B (r1 Intel SR870BH2 0 MSFT 100000D) ACPI: FACS 7FF982E0, 0040 ACPI: APIC 7FF98230, 00AE (r1 INTEL SR870BH2 1072002 MSFT 10013) ACPI: SPCR 7FF98328, 0050 (r1 INTEL SR870BH2 1072002 MSFT 10013) Cannot locate EFI vmcore descriptor Initial ramdisk at: 0xe00000001f598000 (10617709 bytes) SAL 3.1: Intel Corp SR870BH2 version 3.0 SAL Platform features: BusLock SAL: AP wakeup using external interrupt vector 0xf0 TR register number exceeds IA64_TR_ALLOC_MAX!IA64_TR_ALLOC_MAX should be extended ia64_native_iosapic_pcat_compat_init: Disabling PC-AT compatible 8259 interrupts ACPI: Local APIC address c0000000fee00000 PLATFORM int CPEI (0x3): GSI 22 (level, low) -> CPU 0 (0x0000) vector 30 register_intr: changing vector 39 from IO-SAPIC-edge to IO-SAPIC-level 2 CPUs available, 2 CPUs total MCA related initialization done Virtual mem_map starts at 0xa0007fffffc80000 Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0x00004000 -> 0x00040000 Normal 0x00040000 -> 0x00040000 Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges 0: 0x00004000 -> 0x00007ff8 0: 0x00007ff9 -> 0x00008000 On node 0 totalpages: 16383 free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat e000000011400000, node_mem_map a0007fffffc80000 DMA zone: 16327 pages, LIFO batch:3 SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping off. Total pages: 16327 Policy zone: DMA Kernel command line: CRASH=1 root=/dev/sda2 insmod=usbcore insmod=uhci-hcd insmod=ohci-hcd insmod=ehci-hcd insmod=hid ro elevator=deadline sysrq=1 reset_devices irqpoll maxcpus=1 1 elfcorehdr=524160K max_addr=512M min_addr=256M Misrouted IRQ fixup and polling support enabled This may significantly impact system performance PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 8192 bytes) CPU 0: base freq=199.457MHz, ITC ratio=15/2, ITC freq=1495.930MHz Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 console [tty0] enabled Placing software IO TLB between 0x115d8000 - 0x155d8000 Memory: 163648k/233584k available (6640k code, 98480k reserved, 5825k data, 2016k init) Calibrating delay loop... 2211.84 BogoMIPS (lpj=4423680) kdb version 4.4 by Keith Owens, Scott Lurndal. Copyright SGI, All Rights Reserved Security Framework initialized Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 4, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 3, 131072 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 ACPI: Core revision 20080609 Boot processor id 0x0/0x0 Brought up 1 CPUs Total of 1 processors activated (2211.84 BogoMIPS). CPU0 attaching sched-domain: domain 0: span 0 level NODE groups: 0 net_namespace: 1456 bytes DMI 2.3 present. NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: (supports S0 S5) ACPI: Using IOSAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: Device [CSFF] status [00000008]: functional but not present; setting present ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 0c00-0c7f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 0500-053f claimed by ICH4 GPIO pci 0000:01:01.0: Boot video device pci 0000:01:01.0: supports D1 pci 0000:01:01.0: supports D2 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.H2PB._PRT] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI1] (0000:02) pci 0000:03:01.0: supports D1 pci 0000:03:01.0: supports D2 pci 0000:03:01.1: supports D1 pci 0000:03:01.1: supports D2 pci 0000:04:01.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold pci 0000:04:01.0: PME# disabled pci 0000:04:01.1: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold pci 0000:04:01.1: PME# disabled ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI1.P2PA._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI1.P2PB._PRT] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI2] (0000:05) pci 0000:07:01.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold pci 0000:07:01.0: PME# disabled pci 0000:07:01.1: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold pci 0000:07:01.1: PME# disabled ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI2.P2PA._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI2.P2PB._PRT] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [CSFF] (0000:ff) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init ACPI: bus type pnp registered pnp 00:01: io resource (0xc00-0xc07) overlaps 0000:00:1f.0 BAR 7 (0xc00-0xc7f), disabling pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb system 00:01: ioport range 0x8a0-0x8a3 has been reserved system 00:01: ioport range 0xcc0-0xccf has been reserved system 00:01: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved system 00:01: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec0ffff has been reserved system 00:01: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff has been reserved NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 0, 16384 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 131072 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 131072 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) TCP reno registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 10368kB freed perfmon: version 2.0 IRQ 238 perfmon: Itanium 2 PMU detected, 16 PMCs, 18 PMDs, 4 counters (47 bits) PAL Information Facility v0.5 perfmon: added sampling format default_format perfmon_default_smpl: default_format v2.0 registered audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) type=2000 audit(1219861958.724:1): initialized HugeTLB registered 256 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order 0, 16384 bytes) msgmni has been set to 339 io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered (default) io scheduler cfq registered EFI Time Services Driver v0.4 Serial: 8250/16550 driver16 ports, IRQ sharing enabled 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 44) is a 16550A 00:09: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 45) is a 16550A brd: module loaded ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 GSI 16 (level, low) -> CPU 0 (0x0000) vector 48 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 48 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 48, io base 0x00009cc0 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected GSI 19 (level, low) -> CPU 0 (0x0000) vector 49 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 49 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 49, io base 0x00009ce0 usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev input: Dell Dell USB Keyboard as /class/input/input0 input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Dell Dell USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1 usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver registered taskstats version 1 Freeing unused kernel memory: 2016kB freed Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver SCSI subsystem initialized Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods piix 0000:00:1f.1: IDE controller (0x8086:0x24cb rev 0x02) PIIX_IDE 0000:00:1f.1: device not available because of BAR 5 [0x0-0x3ff] collisions PIIX_IDE 0000:00:1f.1: can't derive routing for PCI INT A piix 0000:00:1f.1: BIOS configuration fixed piix 0000:00:1f.1: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007 ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: DW-224E-A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4 hda: UDMA/33 mode selected Probing IDE interface ide1... ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 34 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 33 Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.07 Copyright (c) 1999-2008 LSI Corporation Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.07 GSI 48 (level, low) -> CPU 0 (0x0000) vector 50 mptspi 0000:03:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 48 (level, low) -> IRQ 50 mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup ioc0: LSI53C1030 C0: Capabilities={Initiator} scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 C0, FwRev=01030a00h, Ports=1, MaxQ=222, IRQ=50 GSI 49 (level, low) -> CPU 0 (0x0000) vector 51 mptspi 0000:03:01.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 49 (level, low) -> IRQ 51 mptbase: ioc1: Initiating bringup ioc1: LSI53C1030 C0: Capabilities={Initiator} scsi1 : ioc1: LSI53C1030 C0, FwRev=01030a00h, Ports=1, MaxQ=222, IRQ=51 scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access LSILOGIC 1030 IM 1000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 287289344 512-byte hardware sectors (147092 MB) sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 08 sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 287289344 512-byte hardware sectors (147092 MB) sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 08 sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 scsi 1:0:6:0: Processor ESG-SHV SCA HSBP M24 1.0A PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 target1:0:6: Beginning Domain Validation target1:0:6: Ending Domain Validation target1:0:6: asynchronous scsi 1:0:6:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 3 scsi 1:1:1:0: Direct-Access LANGCHAO ATLAS10K5_147SCA JNZ3 PQ: 0 ANSI: 3 mptbase: ioc1: RAID STATUS CHANGE for VolumeID 0 mptbase: ioc1: volume is now degraded, enabled, quiesced mptbase: ioc1: RAID STATUS CHANGE for PhysDisk 1 id=0 mptbase: ioc1: PhysDisk is now missing, out of sync, quiesced mptbase: ioc1: RAID STATUS CHANGE for PhysDisk 0 id=0 mptbase: ioc1: PhysDisk is now online, quiesced target1:1:1: Beginning Domain Validation target1:1:1: Ending Domain Validation mptbase: ioc1: RAID STATUS CHANGE for VolumeID 0 mptbase: ioc1: volume is now degraded, enabled mptbase: ioc1: RAID STATUS CHANGE for PhysDisk 1 id=0 mptbase: ioc1: PhysDisk is now missing, out of sync mptbase: ioc1: RAID STATUS CHANGE for PhysDisk 0 id=0 mptbase: ioc1: PhysDisk is now online target1:1:1: FAST-160 WIDE SCSI 320.0 MB/s DT IU QAS RTI (6.25 ns, offset 127) scsi 1:1:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.02.01-k6 GSI 100 (level, low) -> CPU 0 (0x0000) vector 52 qla2xxx 0000:06:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 100 (level, low) -> IRQ 52 qla2xxx 0000:06:02.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 52, iobase 0xc0000000f8ee0000 qla2xxx 0000:06:02.0: Configuring PCI space... qla2xxx 0000:06:02.0: Configure NVRAM parameters... qla2xxx 0000:06:02.0: Verifying loaded RISC code... firmware: requesting ql2300_fw.bin qla2xxx 0000:06:02.0: Allocated (412 KB) for firmware dump... scsi2 : qla2xxx qla2xxx 0000:06:02.0: LOOP UP detected (2 Gbps). isa bounce pool size: 16 pages qla2xxx 0000:06:02.0: QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.02.01-k6 QLogic QLA2342 - 133MHz PCI-X to 2Gb FC, Dual Channel ISP2312: PCI-X (100 MHz) @ 0000:06:02.0 hdma-, host#=2, fw=3.03.20 IPX GSI 101 (level, low) -> CPU 0 (0x0000) vector 53 qla2xxx 0000:06:02.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 101 (level, low) -> IRQ 53 qla2xxx 0000:06:02.1: Found an ISP2312, irq 53, iobase 0xc0000000f8ef0000 qla2xxx 0000:06:02.1: Configuring PCI space... qla2xxx 0000:06:02.1: Configure NVRAM parameters... qla2xxx 0000:06:02.1: Verifying loaded RISC code... scsi 2:0:0:0: Medium Changer ADIC Scalar 24 R210 PQ: 0 ANSI: 3 scsi 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 8 scsi 2:0:0:1: Sequential-Access IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 57GA PQ: 0 ANSI: 3 scsi 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 1 st: Version 20080504, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 Driver 'st' needs updating - please use bus_type methods st 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi tape st0 st 2:0:0:1: st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 4 B) scsi 2:0:0:2: Sequential-Access IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 57GA PQ: 0 ANSI: 3 st 2:0:0:2: Attached scsi tape st1 st 2:0:0:2: st1: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 4 B) st 2:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 1 scsi 2:0:0:3: Sequential-Access IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 57GA PQ: 0 ANSI: 3 st 2:0:0:3: Attached scsi tape st2 st 2:0:0:3: st2: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 4 B) st 2:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 1 qla2xxx 0000:06:02.1: Allocated (412 KB) for firmware dump... scsi 2:0:0:4: Sequential-Access IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 57GA PQ: 0 ANSI: 3 st 2:0:0:4: Attached scsi tape st3 st 2:0:0:4: st3: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 4 B) st 2:0:0:4: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 1 scsi3 : qla2xxx qla2xxx 0000:06:02.1: QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.02.01-k6 QLogic QLA2342 - 133MHz PCI-X to 2Gb FC, Dual Channel ISP2312: PCI-X (100 MHz) @ 0000:06:02.1 hdma-, host#=3, fw=3.03.20 IPX processor ACPI0007:00: registered as cooling_device0 processor ACPI0007:01: registered as cooling_device1 No dock devices found. libata version 3.00 loaded. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal Adding 9215968k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:9215968k parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] lp0: using parport0 (polling). Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k3-NAPI Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. GSI 24 (level, low) -> CPU 0 (0x0000) vector 54 e1000 0000:04:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 54 e1000: 0000:04:01.0: e1000_probe: (PCI-X:133MHz:64-bit) 00:0e:0c:67:2c:2a Fusion MPT misc device (ioctl) driver 3.04.07 mptctl: Registered with Fusion MPT base driver mptctl: /dev/mptctl @ (major,minor=10,220) e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection GSI 25 (level, low) -> CPU 0 (0x0000) vector 55 e1000 0000:04:01.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 25 (level, low) -> IRQ 55 e1000: 0000:04:01.1: e1000_probe: (PCI-X:133MHz:64-bit) 00:0e:0c:67:2c:2b e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection GSI 72 (level, low) -> CPU 0 (0x0000) vector 56 e1000 0000:07:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 72 (level, low) -> IRQ 56 e1000: 0000:07:01.0: e1000_probe: (PCI-X:133MHz:64-bit) 00:04:23:ca:e9:f2 e1000: eth2: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection GSI 73 (level, low) -> CPU 0 (0x0000) vector 57 e1000 0000:07:01.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 73 (level, low) -> IRQ 57 e1000: 0000:07:01.1: e1000_probe: (PCI-X:133MHz:64-bit) 00:04:23:ca:e9:f3 e1000: eth3: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. device-mapper: ioctl: 4.14.0-ioctl (2008-04-23) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx loop: module loaded qla2xxx 0000:06:02.1: Cable is unplugged... e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions eth0: no IPv6 routers present lfg-ia64:~ # Regards Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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