Hello bugproxy, or anyone else affected, Accepted makedumpfile into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makedumpfile/1:1.5.9-5ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance! ** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to makedumpfile in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1568952 Title: ISST-LTE:pVM:thymelp2:ubuntu 16.04: change "maxcpus=1" to "nr_cpus=1" in kdump-tools Status in makedumpfile package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in makedumpfile source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in makedumpfile source package in Yakkety: Fix Released Bug description: [SRU justification] Use a more restrictive kernel boot option to limit CPU numbers to 1 [Impact] Will significantly lower crashkernel memory usage on some architectures (namely ppc64el) [Fix] Change the maxcpus boot parameter used in the kexec command by nr_cpus. [Test Case] kexec-config show will display maxcpus=1 without the change. It will show nr_cpus=1 with the proposed change. [Regression] None expected, nr_cpus is a more generic parameter and is more restrictive than the previous parameter. [Original Problem Description of the problem] == Comment: #0 - Ping Tian Han - 2016-04-07 23:04:30 == ---Problem Description--- Because canonical has fixed bug 137281 ( LP: #1560552 ) in 4.4.0-17-generic, the kernel now supports "nr_cpus=1". So we should update the "maxcpus=1" to "nr_cpus=1" in /etc/default/kdump-tools I think. ---uname output--- Linux thymelp2 4.4.0-17-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 29 17:15:31 UTC 2016 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux Userspace tool: kdump-tools version 1:1.5.9-5 == Comment: #2 - Hari Krishna Bathini - 2016-04-11 04:36:14 == (In reply to comment #1) > Hari. > > Would you please validate that nr_cpus is consistent across architectures > and should become the new default? > > Thanks. Hi Kevin, I know nr_cpus=1 is supported on x86 based on this patch https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=14cb6dcf0a023f5977461c94d8d5a163c937979b About other architectures, I am not really sure. But looking at the kdump-tools source package, it seems like other architectures are using maxcpus=1 to boot kdump kernel unless there is architecture specific overrides that are missing in the source. Canonical might be able to answer better. If other aren't using or willing to use nr_cpus=1, we may need a patch of this kind: diff --git a/kdump-config b/kdump-config index 0ff0e6f..aba300e 100755 --- a/kdump-config +++ b/kdump-config @@ -48,7 +48,11 @@ KDUMP_COREDIR=${KDUMP_COREDIR:=/var/crash} KDUMP_DUMP_DMESG=${KDUMP_DUMP_DMESG:=1} KDUMP_DIR="/var/lib/kdump" MAKEDUMP_ARGS=${MAKEDUMP_ARGS:="-c -d 31"} -KDUMP_CMDLINE_APPEND=${KDUMP_CMDLINE_APPEND:="irqpoll maxcpus=1 nousb systemd.unit=kdump-tools.service"} +if [ "$ARCH" = "ppc64le" ]; then + KDUMP_CMDLINE_APPEND=${KDUMP_CMDLINE_APPEND:="irqpoll nr_cpus=1 nousb systemd.unit=kdump-tools.service"} +else + KDUMP_CMDLINE_APPEND=${KDUMP_CMDLINE_APPEND:="irqpoll maxcpus=1 nousb systemd.unit=kdump-tools.service"} +fi KDUMP_KERNEL_HOOK="/etc/kernel/postinst.d/kdump-tools" [ -d $KDUMP_COREDIR ] || mkdir -p $KDUMP_COREDIR ; == Comment: #4 - Kevin W. Rudd - 2016-04-11 11:08:16 == Mirroring to Canonical for their review and feedback. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makedumpfile/+bug/1568952/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
