Re: [Fastboot] Ia64 kdump patch

Jay Lan
2006-07-27T21:41:27Z

Hi,

I applied the patch to 2.6.18-rc2. However, compilation failed
at machine_shutdown() of arch/ia64/kernel/machine_kexec.c on
an sn2 machine.

It was easy to figure out irq_descp() is gone and idesc->handle
is replaced with idesc->chip. But this code in machine_shutdown()
caused an error:

...
if (cpu != smp_processor_id())
cpu_down(cpu);
}
}
#elif defined(CONFIG_SMP)
smp_call_function(kexec_stop_this_cpu, (void *)image->start, 0, 0); <=#endif

'image' is undefined in the code. Was it a global? Where was it
declared?

Thanks,
- jay

Zou, Nanhai wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Horms [mailto:horms@verge.net.au]
>>Sent: 2006Äê6ÔÂ26ÈÕ 15:47
>>To: Zou, Nanhai
>>Cc: Linux-IA64; khalid_aziz@hp.com; fastboot@lists.osdl.org
>>Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Ia64 kdump patch
>>
>>On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 06:47:59AM +0800, Zou Nan hai wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 16:35, Horms wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 06:48:23AM +0800, Zou Nan hai wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>The ia64 kdump patch is in 2 parts.
>>>>>
>>>>>the kexec-kdump-ia64-2.6.16.patch should apply on top of the previous
>>>>>kexec patch by Khalid in Tony's test tree.
>>>>>
>>>>>the kexec-tools-kdump-ia64.patch should apply to kexec-tools-1.101
>>>>>with kexec-tools-1.101-kdump.patch
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>To test it.
>>>>>Build first SMP kernel with KEXEC and KDUMP enabled.
>>>>>
>>>>>Boot it with kernel parameter "crashkernel=XXX@YYY"
>>>>>means reserver XXX from YYY for crashdumping.
>>>>>Build an UP kernel with KEXEC KDUMP VMCORE enabled.
>>>>>load this kernel as a crashdumping kernel
>>>>>kexec -p vmlinux.gz --initrd=initrd --append="...."
>>>>>
>>>>>trigger a crash,
>>>>>maybe "echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger"
>>>>>after the crash kernel boots,
>>>>>cp /proc/vmcore core
>>>>>
>>>>>gdb first_kernel_vmlinux core
>>>>>
>>>>>please test and review.
>>>>>
>>>>>Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid_aziz@hp.com>
>>>>>Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
>>>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I'm very excited to be able to play with the new version of this patch,
>>>>but the version you posted seems to included include all the kexec patch
>>>>that went into Tony Luck's tree. Here is a rediff relative to the
>>>>existing kexec patch (no other changes).
>>>>
>>>>The code does seem to be working for me. The main difficulty so far
>>>>seems to have been finding an appropriate place and size and place for
>>>>the reserved area. 128M@256M seems to work for me, offering enough
>>>>memory and not lie on a resource boundry for me.
>>>>
>>>>Lastly, is it possible for you to comment on what areas of concern
>>>>you have with regards to kdump/kexec on ia64. I am looking to port this
>>>>code to xen, as my colleague Magnus Damm and I have already done so for
>>>>
>>i386
>>
>>>>(complete) and x86_64 (almost complete).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-05/msg01272.html
>>
>>>>Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thanks for testing and review.
>>>
>>> There is still a lot of work to do for ia64 Kdump to be a very useful
>>>and robust feature.
>>>
>>> Major issues.
>>> 1. Full percpu dumping on INIT.
>>> You may notices I only send an IPI to user CPUs and dump part of
>>>registers for crashing CPU.Just stop other CPUs, not dumping their
>>>status. This is only a temp hack.
>>> On other platforms they did this by an NMI, on IA64 we should use INIT
>>>to acknowledge other CPUs. And I know on some platform there is a
>>>trigger on panel can trigger INIT. We could use that to dump at the time
>>>of deadlock. But currently INIT is used by MCA, we need to find a way to
>>>coordinate with MAC on INIT.
>>>
>>> 2. unwind section is missing in vmcore.
>>> When you do a readelf on vmcore, you may notice there is no unwind
>>>sections. We should add this percpu stack unwind sections to help dump
>>>filter tools to analize the core dump.
>>>
>>> 3. kdump path at crash time.
>>> Currently I still have to do a irq->end on each level triggered irq,
>>>without that the MPT fusion driver can not restart. We should fix this,
>>>at least do that in a way of not touching any memory in previous kernel.
>>>
>>> 4. Other than this, we need port the dump filter to IA64.
>>>
>>>There are still some minor issues.
>>>e.g
>>> When I get a crash when X is active, the new kernel will startup in a
>>>blank screen(network is still working). I have indeed do a brute force
>>>VGA reset on in purgatory code. But that seems to only shutdown the VGA
>>>but not reinit it if X is running.
>>>
>>> Current kexec can't not run on a kexec'd kernel, that is because the
>>>memory region of EFI memmap is not reserverd in /proc/iomem, I will sent
>>>a patch to reserve that region later.
>>>
>>>There should be other issues and gaps need to find out.
>>>
>>Thanks for that list, it is very useful to me. I hope that I can
>>find some time to help with some of those problems.
>>
>>One thing that I am puzzling over is why you shutdown the PCI devices
>>as part of machine_crash_shutdown(). As I am trying to port your code
>>to xen this is quite a problem for me, as I'm not sure that Xen
>>actually knows enough about PCI to do this. Its it a problem relating
>>to bringing the devices back online after a reboot? Is it the MPT fusion
>>problem you mention above?
>>
>>
> The list is a bit wrong.., I notice that we don't need to dump unwind segment to core file for stack unwind to work... I am working on full register dumping and fixing the stack unwind issue.
>
> The PCI device shutdown code was to un-master all the PCI devices so that no DMA transaction will be issued by Device. However I think maybe we can remove this code because the new kernel memory space is invisible to first kernel.
>
>There is another problem that I call irq->end for each devices, it is not safe to touch any pointer belong to previous kernel at the crash time.
>But without this code, MPT fusion driver is very likely unable to restart. It sometimes failed to restart even with the irq->end code. This is an open issue need to be fixed.
>
>Thanks
>Zou Nan hai
>
>
>>Horms
>>H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/
>>
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