Re: Capturing crash with 4.6.0 and above kernel does not work

[Himanshu Madhani]

On 8/25/16, 10:03 PM, "Dave Young" <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 08/25/16 at 05:45pm, Himanshu Madhani wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/25/16, 1:10 AM, "Michal Hocko" <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> >[Let's add kdump people]
>> >
>> >On Wed 24-08-16 16:38:56, Himanshu Madhani wrote:
>> >> Hello list,
>> >> 
>> >> I am wondering if anybody has issue capturing crash dump with the 4.6.0 and above kenrel.
>> >> 
>> >> I have a system, when booted in 4.5.7 kernel is able to capture crash dump.
>> >> However, when I boot this system in 4.6.4 and 4.7.2 kernel, crash dump is not 
>> >> able to capture any crash. 
>> >> 
>> >> I am still facing same issue with 4.8.0-rc2+ kernel and from the error at the command prompt, 
>> >> it seems like kexec is ignoring âcrashkenrelâ parameter. 
>> >> 
>> >> I added below information in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119291. 
>> >> 
>> >> # uname -r
>> >> 4.8.0-rc2+
>> >> 
>> >> # cat /proc/cmdline 
>> >> ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_dut4110-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=512M rd_LVM_LV=vg_dut4110/lv_swap rd_LVM_LV=vg_dut4110/lv_root rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet
>> >> 
>> >> # service kdump status
>> >> Kdump is not operational
>> >> 
>> >> # service kdump start
>> >> Memory for crashkernel is not reserved
>> >> Please reserve memory by passing "crashkernel=X@Y" parameter to the kernel
>> >> Starting kdump:                                            [FAILED]
>> >
>> >It smells like the crash kernel reservation has failed. Could you
>> >provide the full kernel log?
>> 
>> Attached is kernel log from fresh kernel compile of 4.6.5 (linux-stable) tree
>
>Where is the kernel log?
>
>Seems the kernel log in bugzilla is for crashkernel=128M

I attached kernel log from my system in the previous email response. Reattaching it here for your reference. 

>
>Thanks
>Dave

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