On 31/07/23 7:39 pm, Sachin Sant wrote:
Kernel Crash dump(kdump) and firmware assisted dump on powerpc fails to capture vmcore on recent linux-next builds. Starting Kdump Vmcore Save Service... systemd[1]: Starting Kdump Vmcore Save Service... kdump[599]: Kdump is using the default log level(3). kdump[635]: saving to /sysroot/var/crash/127.0.0.1-2023-07-31-09:01:28/ kdump[639]: Remounting the dump target in rw mode. kdump[643]: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt to /sysroot/var/crash/127.0.0.1-2023-07-31-09:01:28/ kdump[649]: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt complete kdump[651]: saving vmcore kdump.sh[652]: readpage_elf: Attempt to read non-existent page at 0x4000000000000000. kdump.sh[652]: readmem: type_addr: 0, addr:0, size:8 kdump.sh[652]: get_vmemmap_list_info: Can't get vmemmap region addresses kdump.sh[652]: get_machdep_info_ppc64: Can't get vmemmap list info. kdump.sh[652]: makedumpfile Failed. kdump[654]: saving vmcore failed, exitcode:1 kdump[656]: saving the /run/initramfs/kexec-dmesg.log to /sysroot/var/crash/127.0.0.1-2023-07-31-09:01:28// kdump[663]: saving vmcore failed systemd[1]: kdump-capture.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE systemd[1]: kdump-capture.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. systemd[1]: Failed to start Kdump Vmcore Save Service. [FAILED] Failed to start Kdump Vmcore Save Service. Git bisect points to following patch: 8dc9a0ad0c3e7f43e4e091e4e24634e21ce17a54 is the first bad commit commit 8dc9a0ad0c3e7f43e4e091e4e24634e21ce17a54 powerpc/book3s64/vmemmap: switch radix to use a different vmemmap handling function
Earlier, makedumpfile made use of vmemmap_list to populate all the vmemmap regions but that changed for radix. It uses the init_mm pgtable for vmemmap regions. A fix is needed in makedumpfile to catch up with the above change. Thanks Hari