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Kdump Memory Reservation Verification

The document discusses configuring and verifying kdump, which is used for kernel crash dumping. It shows the output of kdump-config show, which displays the dump mode, use of kdump, sysctl settings, core dump directory, and crashkernel memory reservation. It also describes verifying the crashkernel boot parameter in /proc/cmdline and checking dmesg output to confirm memory has been reserved for the kdump kernel.

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Kdump Memory Reservation Verification

The document discusses configuring and verifying kdump, which is used for kernel crash dumping. It shows the output of kdump-config show, which displays the dump mode, use of kdump, sysctl settings, core dump directory, and crashkernel memory reservation. It also describes verifying the crashkernel boot parameter in /proc/cmdline and checking dmesg output to confirm memory has been reserved for the kdump kernel.

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Installation

kdump-config show
DUMP_MODE: kdump
USE_KDUMP: 1
KDUMP_SYSCTL: kernel.panic_on_oops=1
KDUMP_COREDIR: /var/crash
crashkernel addr: 0x2c000000
/var/lib/kdump/vmlinuz: symbolic link to /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-10-generic
kdump initrd:
/var/lib/kdump/[Link]: symbolic link to /var/lib/kdump/[Link]-4.4.0-10-generic
NFS: kdump-netcrash:/var/crash
HOSTTAG: hostname
current state: ready to kdump

6.5. Verification

To confirm that the kernel dump mechanism is enabled, there are a few things to verify. First, confirm that the
crashkernel boot parameter is present (note: The following line has been split into two to fit the format of this
document:

cat /proc/cmdline

BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.2.0-17-server root=/dev/mapper/PreciseS-root ro
crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M

The crashkernel parameter has the following syntax:

crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...][@offset]
range=start-[end] 'start' is inclusive and 'end' is exclusive.

So for the crashkernel parameter found in /proc/cmdline we would have :

crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M

The above value means:


• if the RAM is smaller than 384M, then don't reserve anything (this is the "rescue" case)
• if the RAM size is between 386M and 2G (exclusive), then reserve 64M
• if the RAM size is larger than 2G, then reserve 128M

Second, verify that the kernel has reserved the requested memory area for the kdump kernel by doing:

dmesg | grep -i crash

...
[ 0.000000] Reserving 64MB of memory at 800MB for crashkernel (System RAM: 1023MB)

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