Bug 243191 - Xen kdump function not enabled
Summary: Xen kdump function not enabled
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: system-config-kdump
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Lehman
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Blocks: 212843 222082 243931
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Reported: 2007-06-07 19:39 UTC by Stephen Tweedie
Modified: 2010-03-14 21:32 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHEA-2007-0882
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-11-07 17:59:59 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
s-c-kdump support for configuring kdump on xen kernels (6.03 KB, patch)
2007-08-24 16:41 UTC, Jarod Wilson
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2007:0882 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE system-config-kdump bug fix and enhancement update 2007-10-30 14:58:02 UTC

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2007-06-07 19:44:38 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Since this
bugzilla is in a component that is not approved for the current
release, it has been closed with resolution deferred.  You may
reopen this bugzilla for consideration in the next release.

Comment 7 Stephen Tweedie 2007-06-12 19:16:56 UTC
One other detail: not only will system-config-kdump need to enable setup for
Xen, it will also need to make sure it's the _right_ setup, which isn't
precisely the same as for non-xen kernels.

In particular, the "crashkernel=" arg needs to be on the "kernel xen.gz..." line
in the grub.conf, not the "module vmlinuz..." line; and the dump kernel will
need to be loaded "@32m", not the default "@16m" that non-xen uses.


Comment 8 Jarod Wilson 2007-06-14 15:50:23 UTC
nb: I had to deal with the same issue in the firstboot module, and its fairly
straight-forward. We obviously set the offset to 32 instead of 16 on x86 and
x86_64 xen, and then just use grubby with --mbargs instead of --args to add the
parameters to the correct line in grub. These changes are in the latest
kexec-tools (which carries the firstboot module). Not sure yet how this will all
shake out if/when we get around to ia64 xen kdump...

Comment 9 Pete Graner 2007-08-15 20:57:18 UTC
Not an approved component moving to 5.2 for consideration

Comment 10 Jarod Wilson 2007-08-15 20:59:35 UTC
This is in support of a feature add we've committed to for 5.1 though...

Comment 21 Jarod Wilson 2007-08-24 16:41:43 UTC
Created attachment 172434 [details]
s-c-kdump support for configuring kdump on xen kernels

The attached patch implements system-config-kdump xen dump support, bringing it
on par with what we have in the kdump firstboot module.

Comment 28 errata-xmlrpc 2007-11-07 17:59:59 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2007-0882.html



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