Bug 727892

Summary: kexec-tools: Warn a user to use maxcpus=1 instead of nr_cpus=1 for older kernels
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal>
Component: kexec-toolsAssignee: Cong Wang <amwang>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Chao Ye <cye>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 6.2CC: anderson, hannsj_uhl, jburke, phan, qcai, rkhan
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: kexec-tools-2_0_0-203_el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Vivek Goyal 2011-08-03 14:47:19 UTC 
Description of problem:

In RHEL 171 kernel we committed patches to make nr_cpus=1 command line option work in kdump kenrel. Now /etc/kdump.conf in kexec-tools package has been modified to use nr_cpus=1.

But this change is not backward compatible. New kexec-tools will break with older kernels. 

So we need to do two things.

- Put a warning to use maxcpus=1 if kernel version is older than 171
- Put a release not explaining the change in 6.2


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Comment 2 Cong Wang 2011-08-09 12:39:58 UTC 
Created attachment 517401 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 4 Chao Ye 2011-09-27 03:04:24 UTC 
Tested with kexec-tools-2.0.0-204.el6:
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[root@intel-chiefriver-02 ~]# rpm -q kernel kexec-tools
kernel-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64
kexec-tools-2.0.0-204.el6.x86_64
[root@intel-chiefriver-02 ~]# touch /etc/kdump.conf 
[root@intel-chiefriver-02 ~]# service kdump restart
Stopping kdump:                                            [  OK  ]
Detected change(s) the following file(s):
  
  /etc/kdump.conf
Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64kdump.img
Your kernel is old, please use maxcpus=1 instead of nr_cpus[WARNING]
Starting kdump:                                            [  OK  ]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[root@intel-chiefriver-02 ~]# uname -a
Linux intel-chiefriver-02.lab.bos.redhat.com 2.6.32-202.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 21 15:27:03 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@intel-chiefriver-02 ~]# rpm -q kexec-tools
kexec-tools-2.0.0-204.el6.x86_64
[root@intel-chiefriver-02 ~]# touch /etc/kdump.conf 
[root@intel-chiefriver-02 ~]# service kdump restart
Stopping kdump:                                            [  OK  ]
Detected change(s) the following file(s):
  
  /etc/kdump.conf
Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.32-202.el6.x86_64kdump.img
Starting kdump:                                            [  OK  ]


Change status to VERIFIED.
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 18:19:32 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1532.html