[PATCH v26 0/7] arm64: add kdump support
Manish Jaggi
mjaggi at caviumnetworks.com
Mon Oct 3 00:54:34 PDT 2016
Hi Akashi,
On 09/07/2016 09:59 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> v26-specific note: After a comment from Rob[0], an idea of adding
> "linux,usable-memory-range" was dropped. Instead, an existing
> "reserved-memory" node will be used to limit usable memory ranges
> on crash dump kernel.
> This works not only on UEFI/ACPI systems but also on DT-only systems,
> but if he really insists on using DT-specific "usable-memory" property,
> I will post additional patches for kexec-tools. Those would be
> redundant, though.
> Even in that case, the kernel will not have to be changed.
>
> This patch series adds kdump support on arm64.
> There are some prerequisite patches [1],[2].
>
> To load a crash-dump kernel to the systems, a series of patches to
> kexec-tools, which have not yet been merged upstream, are needed.
> Please always use my latest kdump patches, v3 [3].
>
> To examine vmcore (/proc/vmcore) on a crash-dump kernel, you can use
> - crash utility (coming v7.1.6 or later) [4]
> (Necessary patches have already been queued in the master.)
>
>
> [0] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-August/452582.html
> [1] "arm64: mark reserved memblock regions explicitly in iomem"
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-August/450433.html
> [2] "efi: arm64: treat regions with WT/WC set but WB cleared as memory"
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-August/451491.html
> [3] T.B.D.
> [4] https://github.com/crash-utility/crash.git
>
With the v26 kdump and v3 kexec-tools and top of tree crash.git, below are the tests done
Attached is a patch in crash.git (symbols.c) to make crash utility work on my setup.
Can you please have a look and provide your comments.
To generate a panic, i have a kernel module which on init calls panic.
Observations:
1.1. Dump capture kernel shows different memory map.
---------------------------------------------------
In dump capture kernel /proc/meminfo and /proc/iomem differ
root at arm64:/home/ubuntu/CODE/crash#
MemTotal: 65882432 kB
MemFree: 65507136 kB
MemAvailable: 60373632 kB
Buffers: 29248 kB
Cached: 46720 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 63872 kB
Inactive: 19776 kB
Active(anon): 8256 kB
Inactive(anon): 7616 kB
First kernel is booted with mem=2G crashkernel=1G command line option.
While the system has 64G memory.
root at arm64:/home/ubuntu/CODE/crash# cat /proc/iomem
41400000-fffeffff : System RAM
41480000-420cffff : Kernel code
42490000-4278ffff : Kernel data
ffff0000-ffffffff : reserved
100000000-ffaa7ffff : System RAM
ffaa80000-ffaabffff : reserved
ffaac0000-fffa6ffff : System RAM
fffa70000-fffacffff : reserved
fffad0000-fffffffff : System RAM
1.2 Live crash dump fails with error
--------------------------------------
$crash vmlinux
crash 7.1.5++
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This GDB was configured as "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu"...
crash: read error: kernel virtual address: ffff800ffffffcc0 type: "pglist node_id"
Observation 2
------------
If saved vmcore file is used
$crash vmlinux vmcore_saved
Got the below error.
please wait... (gathering module symbol data)crash: malloc.c:2846: mremap_chunk: Assertion `((size + offset) & (_rtld_global_ro._dl_pagesize - 1)) == 0' failed.
Aborted
Experiment 3
------------
If crash.git is modified with a hack patch in symbols.c. Crash utility works fine log, bt commands work.
-------------------
Patch: symbols.c
git diff symbols.c
diff --git a/symbols.c b/symbols.c
index 13282f4..f7c6cac 100644
--- a/symbols.c
+++ b/symbols.c
@@ -2160,6 +2160,7 @@ store_module_kallsyms_v2(struct load_module *lm, int start
FREEBUF(module_buf);
return 0;
}
+ lm->mod_init_size = 0;
if (lm->mod_init_size > 0) {
module_buf_init = GETBUF(lm->mod_init_size);
------------------
$ crash vmlinux vmcore_saved
KERNEL: /home/ubuntu/CODE/linux/vmlinux
DUMPFILE: vm
CPUS: 48 [OFFLINE: 46]
DATE: Mon Oct 3 00:11:47 2016
UPTIME: 00:02:41
LOAD AVERAGE: 0.36, 0.14, 0.05
TASKS: 171
NODENAME: arm64
RELEASE: 4.8.0-rc3-00044-g070a615-dirty
VERSION: #63 SMP Sat Oct 1 01:39:45 PDT 2016
MACHINE: aarch64 (unknown Mhz)
MEMORY: 2 GB
PANIC: "Kernel panic - not syncing: crash module starting"
PID: 958
COMMAND: "insmod"
TASK: ffff800007859300 [THREAD_INFO: ffff80000c940000]
CPU: 0
STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC)
crash> bt
PID: 958 TASK: ffff800007859300 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "insmod"
#0 [ffff80000c943980] __crash_kexec at ffff000008144fe8
#1 [ffff80000c943ae0] panic at ffff0000081ae704
#2 [ffff80000c943ba0] init_module at ffff000000900014 [crash]
#3 [ffff80000c943bb0] do_one_initcall at ffff000008083bb4
#4 [ffff80000c943c40] do_init_module at ffff0000081af6f0
#5 [ffff80000c943c70] load_module at ffff000008140b7c
#6 [ffff80000c943e10] sys_finit_module at ffff000008141634
#7 [ffff80000c943ed0] el0_svc_naked at ffff0000080833ec
PC: 00000003 LR: ffffaca050a0 SP: ffffaca865a0 PSTATE: 00000111
X12: ffffac941a5c X11: 00000080 X10: 00000004 X9: 00000030
X8: ffffffff X7: fefefefefefeff40 X6: 00000111 X5: 00000001
X4: 00000001 X3: 0002ed61 X2: 00000000 X1: 00000003
X0: 00000000
crash>
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Thanks,
manish
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