On 05/27/22 at 11:39am, Vivek Goyal wrote:
On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 04:59:38PM +0200, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
Dne 27. 05. 22 v 16:50 Vivek Goyal napsal(a):
On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 04:42:25PM +0200, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
Dne 27. 05. 22 v 14:20 Vivek Goyal napsal(a):
On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 02:45:14PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote:
If lvm2 thinp is enabled in kdump, lvm2-monitor.service is needed for monitor and autoextend the size of thin pool. Otherwise the vmcore dumped to a no-enough-space target will be incomplete and unable for further analysis.
In this patch, lvm2-monitor.service will be started before kdump-capture .service for 2nd kernel, then be stopped in kdump post.d phase. So the thin pool monitoring and size-autoextend can be ensured during kdump.
Signed-off-by: Tao Liu ltao@redhat.com
dracut-lvm2-monitor.service | 15 +++++++++++++++ dracut-module-setup.sh | 16 ++++++++++++++++ kexec-tools.spec | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+) create mode 100644 dracut-lvm2-monitor.service
diff --git a/dracut-lvm2-monitor.service b/dracut-lvm2-monitor.service
This seems to be a copy of /lib/systemd/system/lvm2-monitor.service. Wondering if we can dirctly include that file in initramfs when generating image. But I am fuzzy on details of dracut implementation. It has been too long since I played with it. So Bao and kdump team will be best to comment on this.
This is quite interesting - monitoring should in fact never be started wthin 'ramdisk' so I'm acutlly wondering what is this service file doing there.
Design was to start 'monitoring' of devices just after switch to 'rootfs' - since running 'dmeventd' out of ramdisk does not make any sense at all.
Hi Zdenek,
In case of kdump, we save core dump from initramfs context and reboot back into primary kernel. And that's why this need of dm monitoring ( and thin pool auto extension) working from inside the initramfs context.
So IMHO this although does not look like the best approach. AFAIK the lvm.conf within ramdisk is also a modified version.
It looks like there should be a better alternative - like 'after' activation checking there is 'enough' room in thin-pool for use with thinLV - should be 'computable' and in case the size is not good enough - try to extend thin-pool prior use/mount of thinLV (size of space in thin-pool %DATA & %METATDATA and occupancy of %DATA thinLV could be obtained by 'lvs' tool)
One potential problem here is that we don't know what's the size of vmcore in advance. It gets filtered and saved and we dont know in advance, how many kernel pages will be there.
Is that still right, Bao?
Yes, it's still right.
We have features in makedumpfile to estimate the expected disk space for vmcore dumping. E.g System RAM is 2TB, makedumpfile running tells 256GB disk space is needed for storing vmcore, by filtering out zero pages, unused pages, etc. However, that estimation is done in 1st kernel, and the running kernel could dynamically allocate pages. So the estimation can only give very rough data, in magnitude level. E.g you have 1TB memory, while the disk space is only 200GB, that's obviously not enough.
Technically speaking, one could first run makedumpfile to just determine what will be size of vmcore and then actually save vmcore in second round. But that will double the filtering time.
Yeah. Besides, memory content of system is changing dynamically all the time. E.g your oracle DB is running or not running, the user space data is defintely not the same. And two times of work need involve people's manual work, automation is still expected if can be made.
Running very resource hungry dmeventd (looks all the process memory in RAM
- could be many many MB) in kdump environment is not IMHO worst option
here - I'd prefer to avoid execution of dmeventd in this ramfs image.
I understand. We also want to keep the size of kdump initramfs to the minimum.
Right.
I talked to Tao, he tested on kvm guest with 500M memory and 100M disk space to trigger the insufficient disk space usage. Tao said the dmeventd will cosume about 40MB when executing. I am not familiar with dmeventd, if its running will cost about constant 40M memory, no matter how much disk space need be extended at one time, we can adjust our kdump script to increase the default crashkernel= value if lvm2 thinp is detected. It looks acceptable in kdump side.