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Baoquan He b0f970c50d Documentation: kdump: clean up the outdated description
After commit 443cbaf9e2 ("crash: split vmcoreinfo exporting code out
from crash_core.c"), Kconfig item CRASH_CORE has gone away in kernel. 
Items VMCORE_INFO and CRASH_RESERVE are used instead.

So clean up the outdated description about CRASH_CORE and update it
accordingly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240329132825.1102459-3-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-04-25 21:07:04 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 5c5682b9f8 x86/cpu: Detect real BSP on crash kernels
When a kdump kernel is started from a crashing CPU then there is no
guarantee that this CPU is the real boot CPU (BSP). If the kdump kernel
tries to online the BSP then the INIT sequence will reset the machine.

There is a command line option to prevent this, but in case of nested kdump
kernels this is wrong.

But that command line option is not required at all because the real
BSP is enumerated as the first CPU by firmware. Support for the only
known system which was different (Voyager) got removed long ago.

Detect whether the boot CPU APIC ID is the first APIC ID enumerated by
the firmware. If the first APIC ID enumerated is not matching the boot
CPU APIC ID then skip registering it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Tested-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240213210252.348542071@linutronix.de
2024-02-15 22:07:43 +01:00
Ard Biesheuvel 944834901a Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
Drop or update mentions of IA64, as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2023-09-11 08:13:18 +00:00
Tiezhu Yang ae6694c1aa docs: kdump: add scp example to write out the dump file
Except cp and makedumpfile, add scp example to write out the dump file.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1644324666-15947-3-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-23 19:00:34 -07:00
Tiezhu Yang b2377d4b94 docs: kdump: update description about sysfs file system support
Patch series "Update doc and fix some issues about kdump", v2.

This patch (of 5):

After commit 6a108a14fa ("kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to
CONFIG_EXPERT"), "Configure standard kernel features (for small
systems)" is not exist, we should use "Configure standard kernel
features (expert users)" now.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1644324666-15947-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1644324666-15947-2-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-23 19:00:34 -07:00
Baoquan He b1f4c36366 Documentation: kdump: update kdump guide
Some parts of the guide are aged, hence need be updated.

1) The backup area of the 1st 640K on X86_64 has been removed
   by below commits, update the description accordingly.

   commit 7c321eb2b8 ("x86/kdump: Remove the backup region handling")
   commit 6f599d8423 ("x86/kdump: Always reserve the low 1M when the crashkernel option is specified")

2) Sort out the descripiton of "crashkernel syntax" part.

3) And some other minor cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210609083218.GB591017@MiWiFi-R3L-srv
[jc: added blank line to fix added build warning]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-06-14 08:12:01 -06:00
lijiang 1d11c35e71 docs: admin-guide: update kdump documentation due to change of crash URL
Since crash utility has been moved to github, the original URL is no
longer available. Let's update it accordingly.

Suggested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a088bff5-1174-25fa-ac26-6e46795f4085@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24 10:43:07 -06:00
Rafael Aquini db38d5c106 kernel: add panic_on_taint
Analogously to the introduction of panic_on_warn, this patch introduces
a kernel option named panic_on_taint in order to provide a simple and
generic way to stop execution and catch a coredump when the kernel gets
tainted by any given flag.

This is useful for debugging sessions as it avoids having to rebuild the
kernel to explicitly add calls to panic() into the code sites that
introduce the taint flags of interest.

For instance, if one is interested in proceeding with a post-mortem
analysis at the point a given code path is hitting a bad page (i.e.
unaccount_page_cache_page(), or slab_bug()), a coredump can be collected
by rebooting the kernel with 'panic_on_taint=0x20' amended to the
command line.

Another, perhaps less frequent, use for this option would be as a means
for assuring a security policy case where only a subset of taints, or no
single taint (in paranoid mode), is allowed for the running system.  The
optional switch 'nousertaint' is handy in this particular scenario, as
it will avoid userspace induced crashes by writes to sysctl interface
/proc/sys/kernel/tainted causing false positive hits for such policies.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak kernel-parameters.txt wording]

Suggested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515175502.146720-1-aquini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-08 11:05:56 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 330d481052 docs: admin-guide: add kdump documentation into it
The Kdump documentation describes procedures with admins use
in order to solve issues on their systems.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
Renamed from Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst (Browse further)