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[PATCH] kdump documentation update to introduce use of irqpoll 

o Specify "irqpoll" command line option which loading second kernel. This
  helps in reducing driver initialization failures in second kernel due
  to shared interrupts.
o Enabled LAPIC/IOAPIC support for UP kernels in second kernel. This reduces
  the chances of devices sharing the irq and hence reduces the chances of
  driver initialization failures in second kernel.
o Build a UP capture kernel and disabled SMP support.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Vivek Goyal 2005-06-25 14:58:17 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -66,12 +66,18 @@ SETUP
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000
c) Enable "/proc/vmcore support" (Optional, in Pseudo filesystems).
CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y
d) Disable SMP support and build a UP kernel (Until it is fixed).
CONFIG_SMP=n
e) Enable "Local APIC support on uniprocessors".
CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
f) Enable "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors"
CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
Note: Options a) and b) depend upon "Configure standard kernel features
(for small systems)" (under General setup).
Option a) also depends on CONFIG_HIGHMEM (under Processor
Note: i) Options a) and b) depend upon "Configure standard kernel features
(for small systems)" (under General setup).
ii) Option a) also depends on CONFIG_HIGHMEM (under Processor
type and features).
Both option a) and b) are under "Processor type and features".
iii) Both option a) and b) are under "Processor type and features".
3) Boot into the first kernel. You are now ready to try out kexec-based crash
dumps.
@ -79,7 +85,7 @@ SETUP
4) Load the second kernel to be booted using:
kexec -p <second-kernel> --crash-dump --args-linux --append="root=<root-dev>
maxcpus=1 init 1"
init 1 irqpoll"
Note: i) <second-kernel> has to be a vmlinux image. bzImage will not work,
as of now.
@ -87,12 +93,12 @@ SETUP
is sufficient to represent the physical memory up to 4GB. To store
headers in ELF64 format, specifiy "--elf64-core-headers" on the
kexec command line additionally.
iii) For now (or until it is fixed), it's best to build the
second-kernel without multi-processor support, i.e., make it
a uniprocessor kernel.
iii) Specify "irqpoll" as command line parameter. This reduces driver
initialization failures in second kernel due to shared interrupts.
5) System reboots into the second kernel when a panic occurs. A module can be
written to force the panic, for testing purposes.
written to force the panic or "ALT-SysRq-c" can be used initiate a crash
dump for testing purposes.
6) Write out the dump file using
@ -131,5 +137,5 @@ TODO
CONTACT
=======
Hariprasad Nellitheertha - hari at in dot ibm dot com
Vivek Goyal (vgoyal@in.ibm.com)
Maneesh Soni (maneesh@in.ibm.com)