Re: [Xen-devel] kdump with xen-unstable on efi machine

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/11/14 12:15, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to enable kdump on my test-machine with actual xen-unstable
> booting via EFI.
>
> The kdump kernel is not being loaded.
>
> I'm seeing the memory being reserved:
>
> (XEN) EFI RAM map:
> (XEN)  0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
> (XEN)  0000000000100000 - 000000004bc00000 (usable)
> (XEN)  000000004bc00000 - 000000005bc00000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  000000005bc00000 - 000000005bfec000 (usable)
> (XEN)  000000005bfec000 - 000000005c000000 (ACPI NVS)
> (XEN)  000000005c000000 - 000000006a429000 (usable)
> (XEN)  000000006a429000 - 000000006a42c000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  000000006a42c000 - 000000006a7a2000 (usable)
> (XEN)  000000006a7a2000 - 000000006a7a8000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  000000006a7a8000 - 000000006a987000 (usable)
> (XEN)  000000006a987000 - 000000006a98d000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  000000006a98d000 - 000000006aa63000 (usable)
> (XEN)  000000006aa63000 - 000000006aa73000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  000000006aa73000 - 000000006ac60000 (usable)
> (XEN)  000000006ac60000 - 000000006ac61000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  000000006ac61000 - 000000006ac9b000 (ACPI data)
> (XEN)  000000006ac9b000 - 000000006acac000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  000000006acac000 - 000000006acad000 (usable)
> (XEN)  000000006acad000 - 000000006acae000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  000000006acae000 - 000000007189c000 (usable)
> (XEN)  000000007189c000 - 0000000071946000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  0000000071946000 - 0000000072d76000 (ACPI NVS)
> (XEN)  0000000072d76000 - 0000000072db2000 (ACPI data)
> (XEN)  0000000072db2000 - 0000000072edc000 (usable)
> (XEN)  0000000080000000 - 0000000090000000 (reserved)
> (XEN)  0000000100000000 - 0000002080000000 (usable)
> (XEN) Kdump: 256MB (262144kB) at 0x206dff4000
>
> I'd expect this area being visible in the efi or e820 map presented to
> dom0, but I can't see anything:

This is expected.  The dom0 kernel now has nothing at all do with
loading crash kernel.  Loading happens via hypercalls straight from the
kexec utility.

You need kexec-tools 2.0.4 (I think) or later, compiled with Xen
support, but it should JustWork.

~Andrew

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