Re: [RFC PATCH] watchdog: Add hook for kicking in kdump path

2013-04-10 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:49:14PM -0400, David Teigland wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:40:39AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > > However, we still have the problem that if the machine panics and we want > > to jump into the kdump kernel, we need to 'kick' the watchdog one more > > time. This prov

Re: [RFC PATCH] watchdog: Add hook for kicking in kdump path

2013-04-10 Thread David Teigland
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:40:39AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > However, we still have the problem that if the machine panics and we want > to jump into the kdump kernel, we need to 'kick' the watchdog one more > time. This provides us a sane sync point for determining how long we have > to load the

Re: [RFC PATCH] watchdog: Add hook for kicking in kdump path

2013-04-10 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:17:39PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 08:10:41AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:20:55AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 06:51:23AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:40:39A

Re: [RFC PATCH] watchdog: Add hook for kicking in kdump path

2013-04-10 Thread Don Zickus
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 08:10:41AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:20:55AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 06:51:23AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:40:39AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:07:58A

Re: Kexec couldn't reboot capture kernel on pandaboard ES with OMAP4460

2013-04-10 Thread Stephen Warren
On 04/10/2013 03:35 AM, Li Haifeng wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > Recently, I try to run kdump on pandaboard ES with omap4460. After > load capture kernel by "kexec -l" and execute "kexec -e", the serial > port output "Starting new kernel" and "Bye", then the system hangs up. > > I have tried the ups

Re: [RFC PATCH] watchdog: Add hook for kicking in kdump path

2013-04-10 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:20:55AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 06:51:23AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:40:39AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:07:58AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > > > > Just look for the use of mod_

Re: [RFC PATCH] watchdog: Add hook for kicking in kdump path

2013-04-10 Thread Don Zickus
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 06:51:23AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:40:39AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:07:58AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > > > Just look for the use of mod_timer in the watchdog directory. > > > > > > > > So looking at the

Re: [RFC PATCH] watchdog: Add hook for kicking in kdump path

2013-04-10 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:40:39AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:07:58AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > > Just look for the use of mod_timer in the watchdog directory. > > > > > > So looking at the mod_timer logic in various drivers, it seems regardless > > > if the /dev

Re: [RFC PATCH] watchdog: Add hook for kicking in kdump path

2013-04-10 Thread Don Zickus
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:07:58AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > Just look for the use of mod_timer in the watchdog directory. > > > > So looking at the mod_timer logic in various drivers, it seems regardless > > if the /dev/watchdog device is opened or not, if it is running, it will > > autom

Kexec couldn't reboot capture kernel on pandaboard ES with OMAP4460

2013-04-10 Thread Li Haifeng
Hi, everyone. Recently, I try to run kdump on pandaboard ES with omap4460. After load capture kernel by "kexec -l" and execute "kexec -e", the serial port output "Starting new kernel" and "Bye", then the system hangs up. I have tried the upstream Linux Kernel v3.4 and v3.8. All are with this issu

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/8] kexec: add infrastructure for handling kexec images

2013-04-10 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 09.04.13 at 18:17, David Vrabel wrote: > On 09/04/13 08:44, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 08.04.13 at 20:59, David Vrabel wrote: >>> +ret = kimage_add_page(image, page_to_mfn(page) << PAGE_SHIFT); >> >> Constructs like this aren't portable. You ought to use >> page_to_maddr(), and h

[RESEND PATCH 4/4] Use vmap_area_list to get vmalloc_start for ppc64.

2013-04-10 Thread Atsushi Kumagai
From: Atsushi Kumagai Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:34:30 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Use vmap_area_list to get vmalloc_start for ppc64. Try to get vmalloc_start value from vmap_area_list first for newer ppc64 kernels. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Kumagai --- arch/ppc64.c | 44 +++

[RESEND PATCH 3/4] Use vmap_area_list to get vmalloc_start for ppc32.

2013-04-10 Thread Atsushi Kumagai
From: Atsushi Kumagai Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:30:23 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Use vmap_area_list to get vmalloc_start for ppc32. Try to get vmalloc_start value from vmap_area_list first for newer ppc32 kernels. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Kumagai --- arch/ppc.c | 44 +

[RESEND PATCH 2/4] Use vmap_area_list to get vmalloc_start for i386.

2013-04-10 Thread Atsushi Kumagai
From: Atsushi Kumagai Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:10:49 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Use vmap_area_list to get vmalloc_start for i386. Try to get vmalloc_start value from vmap_area_list first for newer i386 kernels. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Kumagai --- arch/x86.c | 46 +++

[RESEND PATCH 1/4] Introduce new symbols to look at the first vmap_area.

2013-04-10 Thread Atsushi Kumagai
From: Atsushi Kumagai Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:08:57 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Introduce new symbols to look at the first vmap_area. struct vmlist which we used to get vmalloc_start value will be removed from kernel soon, so we have to look at the first vmap_area in the sorted vmap_area_list in

[RESEND PATCH 0/4] Add support for vmap_area_list.

2013-04-10 Thread Atsushi Kumagai
# CCing linuxppc-dev to get advice on ppc for makedumpfile. # makedumpfile is a userspace utility to create a smaller dump file, # you can download it from the following URL. # http://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/ - Hello, This patchset is to work with "remove vm_struct list manageme