Kdump seems to be broken with 6.5 for ppc64le.
[ 14.200412] systemd[1]: Starting dracut pre-pivot and cleanup hook...
[[0;32m OK [0m] Started dracut pre-pivot and cleanup hook.
Starting Kdump Vmcore Save Service...
[ 14.231669] systemd[1]: Started dracut pre-pivot and cleanup hook.
[ 14.231801] systemd[1]: Starting Kdump Vmcore Save Service...
[ 14.341035] kdump.sh[297]: kdump: saving to
/sysroot//var/crash//127.0.0.1-2023-07-14-13:32:34/
[ 14.350053] EXT4-fs (sda2): re-mounted e971a335-1ef8-4295-ab4e-3940f28e53fc
r/w. Quota mode: none.
[ 14.345979] kdump.sh[297]: kdump: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt to
/sysroot//var/crash//127.0.0.1-2023-07-14-13:32:34/
[ 14.348742] kdump.sh[331]: Cannot open /proc/vmcore: No such file or directory
[ 14.348845] kdump.sh[297]: kdump: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt failed
[ 14.349014] kdump.sh[297]: kdump: saving vmcore
[ 14.443422] kdump.sh[332]: open_dump_memory: Can't open the dump
memory(/proc/vmcore). No such file or directory
[ 14.456413] kdump.sh[332]: makedumpfile Failed.
[ 14.456662] kdump.sh[297]: kdump: saving vmcore failed, _exitcode:1
[ 14.456822] kdump.sh[297]: kdump: saving the /run/initramfs/kexec-dmesg.log to
/sysroot//var/crash//127.0.0.1-2023-07-14-13:32:34/
[ 14.487002] kdump.sh[297]: kdump: saving vmcore failed
[[0;1;31mFAILED[0m] Failed to start Kdump Vmcore Save Service.
6.4 was good. Git bisect points to following patch
commit 606787fed7268feb256957872586370b56af697a
powerpc/64s: Remove support for ELFv1 little endian userspace
Reverting this patch allows a successful capture of vmcore.
Does this change require any corresponding change to kdump
and/or kexec tools?
- Sachin
