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Bug 1952297

Summary: makedumpfile --dump-dmesg changes white spaces and all kump tests failed
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Coiby <coxu>
Component: kexec-toolsAssignee: Coiby <coxu>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: xiaoying yan <yiyan>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 8.5CC: bhe, cye, extras-qa, kasong, ruyang, xiawu
Target Milestone: betaKeywords: Triaged
Target Release: ---Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: Unspecified   
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Clone Of: 1944014
: 1952299 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-04-27 06:44:00 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 1944014    
Bug Blocks: 1952299    

Description Coiby 2021-04-22 02:38:57 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1944014 +++

Description of problem:

"makedumpfile --dump-dmesg" generata a vmcore-demsg that only differs from the original vmcore-demsg in white spaces,
```
diff -u vmcore-dmesg.txt vmcore-dmesg.txt.2 
--- vmcore-dmesg.txt    2021-03-28 22:13:09.986000000 -0400
+++ vmcore-dmesg.txt.2  2021-03-28 22:13:39.920106131 -0400
@@ -397,9 +397,9 @@
 [    1.710742] vc vcsa: hash matches
 [    1.711938] RAS: Correctable Errors collector initialized.
 [    1.713736] Unstable clock detected, switching default tracing clock to "global"
-If you want to keep using the local clock, then add:
-  "trace_clock=local"
-on the kernel command line
+               If you want to keep using the local clock, then add:
+                 "trace_clock=local"
+               on the kernel command line
 [    1.750539] ata1.01: NODEV after polling detection
 [    1.750973] ata1.00: ATA-7: QEMU HARDDISK, 2.5+, max UDMA/100
 [    1.752885] ata1.00: 8388608 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 
```

As a consequence, all kdumps in tests failed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kexec-tools-2.0.21-4.fc33.x86_64

How reproducible:

always reproducible at least on hpe-dl585g5-01.hpe2.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add crashekernel=auto to the kernel commandline 
2. Install kexec-tools
3. Trigger sysrq
4. Run "makedumpfile --dump-dmesg" against generated vmcore to genereate vmcore-dmesg.txt.2 
5. diff -u vmcore-dmesg.txt vmcore-dmesg.txt.2 

Actual results:

The generated vmcore-dmesg.txt.2 is different from the original one in white spaces.

Expected results:

Two vmcore-dmesg.txt should be the same.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Coiby 2021-04-22 02:42:43 UTC
This bug can be also reproduced in the system provisioned via "1minutetip fedora33".

Comment 5 Coiby 2021-04-27 06:44:00 UTC
These self-tests hasn't landed on RHEL-8 (https://src.osci.redhat.com/rpms/kexec-tools/tree/rhel-8.5.0). So the bug doesn't exist right now and needs to closed.