[Xen-users] kexec: "Crash kernel" no longer in /proc/iomem on 2.6.32?

[Philipp Hahn <hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I tried to setup kexec / kdump on a (crashing) Xen-3.4.3 system, but didn't 
get it working. The dom0 Kernel is a Debian-derived linux-2.6.32.48 custom 
build.

kexec comlains with the following error message:
> Memory for crashkernel is not reserved
> Please reserve memory by passing "crashkernel=X@Y" parameter to the kernel
> Then try loading kdump kernel

But I passed "crashkernel=512M@2048M" to xen.gv in /boot/grub/menu.lst and the 
following command confirms this:
# xm dmesg | grep Kdump
(XEN) Kdump: 512MB (524288kB) at 0x80000000

Reading the source code of kexec-tools-2.0.1 I see that it is 
checking /proc/iomem for the string "Crash kernel", which is not present, 
also no "Hypervisor code and data". 
<http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/xen-3.4-testing.hg/file/d0b8738f6e9f/docs/misc/kexec_and_kdump.txt>
 
tells it should, as do other pages on the web.
Grepping the Linux Kernel and the xen source for that string didn't find any 
hit for that string outside said document.

Is the kexec / kdump functionality for the Xen hypervisor in combination with 
a linux-2.6.32 kernel still functional, or is this a now defunc relict from 
the 2.6.18 days?

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely
Philipp
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