Testing kexec/kdump on ls2085ardb (arm64)
Denys Zagorui
denys.zagorui at globallogic.com
Sun Apr 9 23:37:42 PDT 2017
> Hello,
>
> I was testing kexec/kdump on ls2085ardb using kexec-tools from:
>
> https://git.linaro.org/people/takahiro.akashi/kexec-tools.git/log/?h=arm64/kdump
>
> and kernel from:
>
> https://git.linaro.org/people/takahiro.akashi/linux-aarch64.git/log/?h=arm64/kdump
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Kernel required configs:
>
> CONFIG_KEXEC=y
> CONFIG_SYSFS=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
> CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
> CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Starting kernel ...
>
> [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
> [ 0.000000] Linux version 4.11.0-rc3 (denyszagorui at kbp1-ldl-f65370)
> (gcc version 6.2.0 (GCC) ) #4 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 4 17:08:07 EEST 2017
> [ 0.000000] Boot CPU: AArch64 Processor [411fd071]
> [ 0.000000] earlycon: uart8250 at MMIO 0x00000000021c0600 (options '')
> [ 0.000000] bootconsole [uart8250] enabled
> [ 0.000000] efi: Getting EFI parameters from FDT:
> [ 0.000000] efi: UEFI not found.
> [ 0.000000] crashkernel reserved: 0x00000000bfe00000 -
> 0x00000000ffe00000 (1024 MB)
>
> .....
>
> [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS1,115200
> root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0x21c0600,
> ramdisk_size=0x2000000 default_hugepagesz=2m hugepagesz=2m hugepages=256
> crashkernel=1024M
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I was trying two modes: direct boot (kexec -l than kexec -e) and kdump
> (kexec -p than echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger).
>
> Direct boot:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> root at ls2085ardb:~# kexec -l /boot/Image --initrd=/boot/initrd.cpio
> --command-line="console=ttyS1,115200 root=/dev/ram0
> earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0x21c0600, 1 maxcpus=1 reset_devices" -d
> arch_process_options:147: command_line: console=ttyS1,115200
> root=/dev/ram0 earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0x21c0600, 1 maxcpus=1 reset_devices
> arch_process_options:149: initrd: /boot/initrd.cpio
> arch_process_options:150: dtb: (null)
> Try gzip decompression.
> Try LZMA decompression.
> lzma_decompress_file: read on /boot/Image of 65536 bytes failed
> kernel: 0xffffac0f8010 kernel_size: 0xe80a00
> get_memory_ranges_iomem_cb: 0000000080000000 - 00000000ffffffff : System RAM
> get_memory_ranges_iomem_cb: 0000008080000000 - 00000083bfffffff : System RAM
> elf_arm64_probe: Not an ELF executable.
> image_arm64_load: kernel_segment: 0000000080000000
> image_arm64_load: text_offset: 0000000000080000
> image_arm64_load: image_size: 0000000000eea000
> image_arm64_load: phys_offset: 0000000080000000
> image_arm64_load: vp_offset: ffffffffffffffff
> image_arm64_load: PE format: yes
> .....
> kexec_load: entry = 0x817ed660 flags = 0xb70000
> nr_segments = 4
> segment[0].buf = 0xffffac0f8010
> segment[0].bufsz = 0xe80a00
> segment[0].mem = 0x80080000
> segment[0].memsz = 0xeea000
> segment[1].buf = 0xffffab879010
> segment[1].bufsz = 0x87e800
> segment[1].mem = 0x80f6a000
> segment[1].memsz = 0x87f000
> segment[2].buf = 0x377b3e80
> segment[2].bufsz = 0x3d64
> segment[2].mem = 0x817e9000
> segment[2].memsz = 0x4000
> segment[3].buf = 0x377b7f20
> segment[3].bufsz = 0x31c8
> segment[3].mem = 0x817ed000
> segment[3].memsz = 0x4000
> kexec_load failed: Device or resource busy
> entry = 0x817ed660 flags = 0xb70000
> nr_segments = 4
> segment[0].buf = 0xffffac0f8010
> segment[0].bufsz = 0xe80a00
> segment[0].mem = 0x80080000
> segment[0].memsz = 0xeea000
> segment[1].buf = 0xffffab879010
> segment[1].bufsz = 0x87e800
> segment[1].mem = 0x80f6a000
> segment[1].memsz = 0x87f000
> segment[2].buf = 0x377b3e80
> segment[2].bufsz = 0x3d64
> segment[2].mem = 0x817e9000
> segment[2].memsz = 0x4000
> segment[3].buf = 0x377b7f20
> segment[3].bufsz = 0x31c8
> segment[3].mem = 0x817ed000
> segment[3].memsz = 0x4000
> root at ls2085ardb:~# kexec -e
> Nothing has been loaded!
>
> Not working for me:
> kexec_load failed: Device or resource busy
>
>
> kdump mode:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> root at ls2085ardb:~# kexec -p /boot/Image --initrd=/boot/initrd.cpio
> --command-line="console=ttyS1,115200 root=/dev/ram0
> earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0x21c0600, 1 maxcpus=1 reset_devices" -d
> arch_process_options:147: command_line: console=ttyS1,115200
> root=/dev/ram0 earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0x21c0600, 1 maxcpus=1 reset_devices
> arch_process_options:149: initrd: /boot/initrd.cpio
> arch_process_options:150: dtb: (null)
> Try gzip decompression.
> Try LZMA decompression.
> lzma_decompress_file: read on /boot/Image of 65536 bytes failed
> kernel: 0xffff86fa8010 kernel_size: 0xe80a00
> get_memory_ranges_iomem_cb: 0000000080000000 - 00000000ffffffff : System RAM
> get_memory_ranges_iomem_cb: 0000008080000000 - 00000083bfffffff : System RAM
> elf_arm64_probe: Not an ELF executable.
> image_arm64_load: kernel_segment: 00000000bfe00000
> image_arm64_load: text_offset: 0000000000080000
> image_arm64_load: image_size: 0000000000eea000
> image_arm64_load: phys_offset: 0000000080000000
> image_arm64_load: vp_offset: ffffffffffffffff
> image_arm64_load: PE format: yes
> Reserved memory range
> 00000000bfe00000-00000000ffdfffff (0)
> Coredump memory ranges
> 0000000080000000-00000000bfdfffff (0)
> 00000000ffe00000-00000000ffffffff (0)
> 0000008080000000-00000083bfffffff (0)
> kernel symbol _text vaddr = ffff000008080000
> load_crashdump_segments: page_offset: ffff800000000000
> ...
> kexec_load: entry = 0xc15ed660 flags = 0xb70001
> nr_segments = 5
> segment[0].buf = 0xffff86fa8010
> segment[0].bufsz = 0xe80a00
> segment[0].mem = 0xbfe80000
> segment[0].memsz = 0xeea000
> segment[1].buf = 0xffff86729010
> segment[1].bufsz = 0x87e800
> segment[1].mem = 0xc0d6a000
> segment[1].memsz = 0x87f000
> segment[2].buf = 0x36959590
> segment[2].bufsz = 0x3dc7
> segment[2].mem = 0xc15e9000
> segment[2].memsz = 0x4000
> segment[3].buf = 0x3695d690
> segment[3].bufsz = 0x31c8
> segment[3].mem = 0xc15ed000
> segment[3].memsz = 0x4000
> segment[4].buf = 0x36949490
> segment[4].bufsz = 0x400
> segment[4].mem = 0xffdff000
> segment[4].memsz = 0x1000
>
> root at ls2085ardb:~# echo c > /proc/sysrroot at ls2085ardb:~# echo c >
> /proc/sysrq-trigger
>
> [ 265.274402] sysrq: SysRq : Trigger a crash
> [ 265.278588] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> virtual address 00000000
> ...
> [ 265.750726] Starting crashdump kernel...
> [ 265.754644] Some CPUs may be stale, kdump will be unreliable.
> [ 265.760388] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 265.765006] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1360 at
> arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c:158 machine_kexec+0x44/0x280
> ...
>
> root at ls2085ardb:~# ls -al /proc/
> ...
> -r-------- 1 root root 15048032256 Mar 28 15:36 vmcore
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 28 15:36 vmstat
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 28 15:36 zoneinfo
>
> After that watched through /proc/vmcore using gdb. Seems to be working
>
> Best Regards,
> Denys
>
Hello, have a question. What i'm doing wrong with direct boot (kexec -l
&& kexec -e)
Thanks and Regards
Denys
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