From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: Venkappa Mala <Venkappa.Mala@lntinfotech.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk" <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Linux kernel crash dumps for ARM
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:48:51 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100105084850.GA27860@linux-sh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17hrx9lgo.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 09:20:23PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Venkappa Mala <Venkappa.Mala@lntinfotech.com> writes:
> >
> > 2) As per kexec supports, kexec-tool is required and this allows you to load directly
> > to a new kernel from the currently running one
> >
> > As from my side, i am not able to find arm implementation support in kexec-tools/crash sources.
> >
> > - is kexce-tool supported for ARM or not?
> >
It would be rather counterintuitive for the kernel to support kexec and
the necessary userspace components not to.
The MAINTAINERS file says:
KEXEC
M: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
W: http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/
L: kexec@lists.infradead.org
S: Maintained
F: include/linux/kexec.h
F: kernel/kexec.c
While the above URL redirects to gitweb, resulting in:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools.git;a=summary
A peripheral grep of the kexec-tools source results in:
$ git grep kdump | grep arm
kexec/arch/arm/kexec-arm.c: return 0; /* kdump is not supported on this platform (yet) */
So one could infer that kexec is supported on ARM whilst kdump is not. Adding
crashdump support requires both some kernel and kexec-tools glue, but is fairly
straightforward, just look at the other ports.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-05 8:48 UTC|newest]
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2010-01-05 4:51 ` Linux kernel crash dumps for ARM Venkappa Mala
2010-01-05 5:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-05 8:30 ` Bernhard Walle
2010-01-05 8:48 ` Paul Mundt [this message]
2010-01-05 9:16 ` Simon Horman
2010-01-05 19:00 ` Russell King
2010-01-05 22:02 ` Simon Horman
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