** Description changed:
[IMPACT]
When running Focal with the hwe 5.11 kernel makedumpfile is not working as it
should.
Instead of compressing the dump makedumpfile falls back to cp.
This can create problems on systems with very large RAM and result into
exhausting all storage on the host.
- This can be resolved with upstream commit 54aec3878b3f([PATCH] make use of
'uts_namespace.name' offset in VMCOREINFO).
+ This can be resolved with upstream commit f1197543d1c4 ([PATCH] Retrieve
MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS from vmcoreinfo).
+ The reason for falling back to cp is that without this patch makedumpfile
calculates wrongly the memory layout.
+ This happens after the kernel commit 1d50e5d0c505 ("crash_core, vmcoreinfo:
Append 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS'to vmcoreinfo").
+ With this commit applied, reading MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS from vmcoreinfo instead of
inferring lead to correctly detecting the memory layout and creating the dump
file properly.
In addition the dmesg.<timestamp> is not created.
This can be resolved with the following two commits :
- commit c617ec633392([PATCH 1/2] printk: add support for lockless ringbuffer)
- commit 44b073b7ec46([PATCH 2/2] printk: use committed/finalized state
values)
[TEST CASE]
For testing a machine running focal with the 5.11 kernel is required.
Then trigger a crash.
- On the console we can see that makedumpfile fails and `falls back to cp`.
+ On the console we can see that makedumpfile fails and `falls back to cp`.
In /var/crash we can see that no dmesg file is created and instead of the
dump file
the uncompressed vmcoreinfo is created.
[WHERE PROBLEMS COULD OCCUR]
The 3 commits pulled into focal make makedumpfile compatible with the 5.11
kernel.
Any regression potential would involve the crash dump not being created after
a crash in case kdump is configured.
[OTHER]
Only Focal with 5.11 kernel is affected.
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makedumpfile not properly working on focal with 5.11 kernel
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