Vivid will pick up this fix when it rebases to 3.19. SRU'ing the fix for 3.16.
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Utopic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: + SRU Justification: + + [Impact] + Kdump triggered manually after cpu offline operation fails to collect dump + + [Test Case] + See Steps to Reproduce below. + + [Fix] + $ git describe --contains c1caae3de46a072d0855729aed6e793e536a4a55 + v3.19-rc3~1^2~1 + + -- + + ---Problem Description--- Kdump triggered manually after cpu offline operation fails to collect dump - + ---uname output--- Linux ubuntu 3.18.0-9-generic #10-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 12 21:35:28 UTC 2015 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux - - Machine Type = P8 - + + Machine Type = P8 + ---System Hang--- We have to reboot the LPAR and gain access to the machine again. - + ---Steps to Reproduce--- Install a Power VM LPAR with Ubuntu 15.04 ISO using Virtual DVD. Then offline one of the cpu's of the machine. root@ubuntu:~# lscpu Architecture: ppc64le Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 16 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-15 Thread(s) per core: 8 Core(s) per socket: 1 Socket(s): 2 NUMA node(s): 2 Model: IBM,8284-22A Hypervisor vendor: pHyp Virtualization type: para L1d cache: 64K L1i cache: 32K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-15 NUMA node2 CPU(s): - root@ubuntu:~# chcpu -d 15 CPU 15 disabled root@ubuntu:~# lscpu Architecture: ppc64le Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 16 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-14 Off-line CPU(s) list: 15 Thread(s) per core: 7 Core(s) per socket: 1 Socket(s): 2 NUMA node(s): 2 Model: IBM,8284-22A Hypervisor vendor: pHyp Virtualization type: para L1d cache: 64K L1i cache: 32K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-14 NUMA node2 CPU(s): Configure and enable kdump on the LPAR. root@ubuntu:~# /etc/init.d/kdump-tools status current state : ready to kdump root@ubuntu:~# kdump-config load Modified cmdline:BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinux-3.18.0-9-generic root=UUID=70957e56-8669-466f-b0e7-140f2ec39a04 ro splash quiet irqpoll maxcpus=1 nousb elfcorehdr=155072K segment[0].mem:0x8000000 memsz:24510464 segment[1].mem:0x9760000 memsz:65536 segment[2].mem:0x9770000 memsz:65536 segment[3].mem:0x9780000 memsz:65536 segment[4].mem:0x9790000 memsz:22020096 segment[5].mem:0xec70000 memsz:196608 - * loaded kdump kernel + * loaded kdump kernel root@ubuntu:~# - root@ubuntu:~# kdump-config show USE_KDUMP: 1 KDUMP_SYSCTL: kernel.panic_on_oops=1 KDUMP_COREDIR: /var/crash crashkernel addr: current state: ready to kdump kexec command: - /sbin/kexec -p --args-linux --command-line="BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinux-3.18.0-9-generic root=UUID=70957e56-8669-466f-b0e7-140f2ec39a04 ro splash quiet irqpoll maxcpus=1 nousb" --initrd=/boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-9-generic /boot/vmlinux-3.18.0-9-generic + /sbin/kexec -p --args-linux --command-line="BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinux-3.18.0-9-generic root=UUID=70957e56-8669-466f-b0e7-140f2ec39a04 ro splash quiet irqpoll maxcpus=1 nousb" --initrd=/boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-9-generic /boot/vmlinux-3.18.0-9-generic root@ubuntu:~# kdump-config status current state : ready to kdump root@ubuntu:~# sysctl -w kernel.sysrq=1 kernel.sysrq = 1 root@ubuntu:~# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq 1 - Trigger the crash manually using sysrq-trigger. root@ubuntu:~# echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger root@ubuntu:~# [ 311.088315] SysRq : Trigger a crash [ 311.088331] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000 [ 311.088336] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000005f9094 [ 311.088341] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] [ 311.088344] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries [ 311.088349] Modules linked in: xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack xt_tcpudp bridge stp llc iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables pseries_rng rtc_generic binfmt_misc [ 311.088372] CPU: 14 PID: 1705 Comm: bash Not tainted 3.18.0-9-generic #10-Ubuntu [ 311.088377] task: c00000027773e470 ti: c0000002782d0000 task.ti: c0000002782d0000 [ 311.088381] NIP: c0000000005f9094 LR: c0000000005fa12c CTR: c0000000005f9060 [ 311.088385] REGS: c0000002782d39d0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (3.18.0-9-generic) [ 311.088389] MSR: 8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28242822 XER: 00000001 [ 311.088401] CFAR: c0000000000084d8 DAR: 0000000000000000 DSISR: 42000000 SOFTE: 1 GPR00: c0000000005fa12c c0000002782d3c50 c000000001426890 0000000000000063 GPR04: c000000001b85c28 c000000001b965e0 00000000000000ff c0000000015e71f0 GPR08: c000000000e76890 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 GPR12: c0000000005f9060 c000000007b37e00 0000000000000000 0000000022000000 GPR16: 000000001016d6e8 0000010000088208 0000000010143eb8 00000000100c9390 GPR20: 0000000000000000 000000001017b008 0000000010143d18 0000000000000000 GPR24: 0000000010156c00 0000000010178868 c0000000013756a8 0000000000000004 GPR28: 0000000000000063 c00000000133f598 c000000001375a68 0000000000000000 [ 311.088459] NIP [c0000000005f9094] sysrq_handle_crash+0x34/0x50 [ 311.088463] LR [c0000000005fa12c] __handle_sysrq+0xec/0x280 [ 311.088467] Call Trace: [ 311.088470] [c0000002782d3c50] [c000000000056604] ht64_call_hpte_insert1+0x4/0x3c (unreliable) [ 311.088476] [c0000002782d3c70] [c0000000005fa12c] __handle_sysrq+0xec/0x280 [ 311.088481] [c0000002782d3d10] [c0000000005fa928] write_sysrq_trigger+0x78/0xa0 [ 311.088488] [c0000002782d3d40] [c000000000345a10] proc_reg_write+0xb0/0x110 [ 311.088494] [c0000002782d3d90] [c0000000002b954c] vfs_write+0xdc/0x260 [ 311.088499] [c0000002782d3de0] [c0000000002ba0ec] SyS_write+0x6c/0x110 [ 311.088504] [c0000002782d3e30] [c00000000000927c] syscall_exit+0x0/0x7c [ 311.088508] Instruction dump: [ 311.088511] 3842d830 7c0802a6 f8010010 f821ffe1 60000000 60000000 3d22001b 39491cdc [ 311.088519] 39200001 912a0000 7c0004ac 39400000 <992a0000> 38210020 e8010010 7c0803a6 [ 311.088528] ---[ end trace 8543f2d87847eab7 ]--- [ 311.090822] [ 311.090851] Sending IPI to other CPUs [ 311.091870] IPI complete [ 312.466826] Kernel panic - not syncing: Could not enable big endian exceptions root@ubuntu:~# which kdump /sbin/kdump root@ubuntu:~# dpkg -S /sbin/kdump kexec-tools: /sbin/kdump root@ubuntu:~# dpkg --list | grep kexec ii kexec-tools 1:2.0.7-5ubuntu1 ppc64el tools to support fast kexec reboots ii pxe-kexec 0.2.4-3 ppc64el Fetch PXE configuration file and netboot using kexec - The fix patch is available upstream https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c1caae3de46a072d0855729aed6e793e536a4a55 Thanks Hari ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Utopic) Assignee: (unassigned) => Chris J Arges (arges) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Utopic) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: Chris J Arges (arges) => (unassigned) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Utopic) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => New ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium => Undecided -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1410817 Title: Kdump triggered manually after cpu offline operation fails to collect dump To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1410817/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs