Re: [PATCH] kdump: Fix for boot problems on SMP

[Hariprasad Nellitheertha]

Akinobu Mita wrote:
> I've forgotten CC-ing.
> 
> On Saturday 20 November 2004 10:05, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> 
> 
>>4) Load the second kernel to be booted using
>>
>>   kexec -p <second-kernel> --args-linux --append="root=<root-dev> dump
>>   init 1 memmap=exactmap memmap=640k@0 memmap=32M@16M"
>>
>>But kexec doesn't seem to like option "-p".
>>Even when I removed "-p", its complaining about "--args-linux"


There is a kexec-tools patch that is required to get the "-p" option
working. I had sent it out only to the fastboot mailing list without
updating kdump documentation. I will send out an updated documentation
patch indicating this requirement (I will host the patch on some site
and point to it in the document).

Meanwhile, I am attaching the patch with this note. Kindly try kdump
with this. Thanks!

Regards, Hari


Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@xxxxxxxxxx>


---

 kexec-tools-1.95-hari/kexec/kexec.c |   10 +++++++++-
 kexec-tools-1.95-hari/kexec/kexec.h |    6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN kexec/kexec.c~kexec-tools-panic kexec/kexec.c
--- kexec-tools-1.95/kexec/kexec.c~kexec-tools-panic	2004-10-18 14:27:27.000000000 +0530
+++ kexec-tools-1.95-hari/kexec/kexec.c	2004-10-19 21:00:23.000000000 +0530
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 /* local variables */
 static struct memory_range *memory_range;
 static int memory_ranges;
+static unsigned long load_flags;
 
 int valid_memory_range(struct kexec_segment *segment)
 {
@@ -243,7 +244,7 @@ static int my_load(const char *type, int
 	if (sort_segments(segments, nr_segments) < 0) {
 		return -1;
 	}
-	result = kexec_load(entry, nr_segments, segments, 0);
+	result = kexec_load(entry, nr_segments, segments, load_flags);
 	if (result != 0) {
 		/* The load failed, print some debugging information */
 		fprintf(stderr, "kexec_load failed: %s\n",
@@ -325,6 +326,7 @@ void usage(void)
 		" -u, --unload      Unload the current kexec target kernel.\n"
 		" -e, --exec        Execute a currently loaded kernel.\n"
 		" -t, --type=TYPE   Specify the new kernel is of this type.\n"
+		" -p, --load-panic  Load kernel for the reboot on panic case.\n"
 		"\n"
 		"Supported kernel file types and options: \n"
 		);
@@ -393,6 +395,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		case OPT_TYPE:
 			type = optarg;
 			break;
+		case OPT_PANIC:
+			do_load = 1;
+			do_exec = 0;
+			do_shutdown = 0;
+			load_flags = 1;
+			break;
 		default:
 			break;
 		}
diff -puN kexec/kexec.h~kexec-tools-panic kexec/kexec.h
--- kexec-tools-1.95/kexec/kexec.h~kexec-tools-panic	2004-10-18 14:36:23.000000000 +0530
+++ kexec-tools-1.95-hari/kexec/kexec.h	2004-10-20 14:09:46.000000000 +0530
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ extern int file_types;
 #define OPT_LOAD		'l'
 #define OPT_UNLOAD		'u'
 #define OPT_TYPE		't'
+#define OPT_PANIC		'p'
 #define OPT_MAX			256
 #define KEXEC_OPTIONS \
 	{ "help",		0, 0, OPT_HELP }, \
@@ -54,7 +55,8 @@ extern int file_types;
 	{ "load",		0, 0, OPT_LOAD }, \
 	{ "unload",		0, 0, OPT_UNLOAD }, \
 	{ "exec",		0, 0, OPT_EXEC }, \
-	{ "type",		1, 0, OPT_TYPE }, 
-#define KEXEC_OPT_STR "hvdfxluet:"
+	{ "type",		1, 0, OPT_TYPE }, \
+	{ "panic",		0, 0, OPT_PANIC },
+#define KEXEC_OPT_STR "hvdfxluet:p"
 
 #endif /* KEXEC_H */

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