3:07 p.m.
A recent patch (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/15/42) enables multiple
processors in the crash kernel.
To do this safely the crash kernel needs to know which CPU was the 1st
kernel BSP (bootstrap processor) so that the crash kernel will NOT send
the BSP an INIT. If the crash kernel sends an INIT to the 1st kernel
BSP, some systems may reset or hang.
The EFI spec doesn't require that any particular processor is chosen
as the BSP and the CPU (and its apic id) can change from one boot to
the next. Hence automating the selection of CPU to disable if the
system would panic is desired.
This patch updates the kdumpctl script to get the "initial apicid"
of CPU 0 in the first kernel and will pass this as the
"disable_cpu_apicid=" arguement to kexec if it wasn't explicitly
set in /etc/sysconfig/kdump KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND.
CPU 0 is chosen as it is the processor thats execute the OS initialization
code and hence was the BSP as per x86 SDM (Vol 3a Section 8.4.)
See associated Red Hat Bugzilla(s) for additional background material:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059031
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980621
---
kdumpctl | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kdumpctl b/kdumpctl
index 46ae633..0f6cd20 100755
--- a/kdumpctl
+++ b/kdumpctl
@@ -208,6 +208,26 @@ function need_64bit_headers()
print (strtonum("0x" r[2]) > strtonum("0xffffffff")); }'`
}
+# This function supplies argument disable_cpu_apicid if
+# not explicitly specified in KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND.
+# It will be the "initial apicid" of CPU 0 if it exists.
+
+function disable_apicid()
+{
+ local
cmdline=${KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND/"disable_cpu_apicid"/":"}
+
+ if [ "$cmdline" != "$KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND" ] ; then
+ return 0
+ fi
+
+ awk ' \
+ BEGIN { CPU = -1; } \
+ $1=="processor" && $2==":" { CPU = 0+$NF; } \
+ CPU==0 && /initial apicid/ {print "disable_cpu_apicid="$NF;} \
+ ' \
+ /proc/cpuinfo
+}
+
# Load the kdump kerel specified in /etc/sysconfig/kdump
# If none is specified, try to load a kdump kernel with the same version
# as the currently running kernel.
@@ -251,6 +271,7 @@ function load_kdump()
KDUMP_COMMANDLINE=`remove_cmdline_param "$KDUMP_COMMANDLINE" crashkernel
hugepages hugepagesz`
KDUMP_COMMANDLINE="${KDUMP_COMMANDLINE} ${KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND}"
+ KDUMP_COMMANDLINE="${KDUMP_COMMANDLINE} `disable_apicid`"
$KEXEC $KEXEC_ARGS $standard_kexec_args \
--command-line="$KDUMP_COMMANDLINE" \
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