I am trying to setup kdump to generate the vmcore for kernel-3.10.0-123.el7. For the perf kernel kernel-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64.rpm i setup kdump and kdump is working fine too, generating vmcore.
Then i installed
kernel-debug-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64.rpm
using yum install kernel-debug-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64.rpm and kdump worked fine.
But then i didnt have vmlinux to read vmcore of debug kernel.
Then I build source using rpmbuild from the source
kernel-3.10.0-123.el7.src.rpm
But I see the vmlinux in
~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-3.10.0-123.el7/linux-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64/vmlinux
for perf kernel only not for debug kernel
So from ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
i copied linux-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64.tar.xz and used
kernel-3.10.0-x86_64-debug.config as .config to get vmlinux
When i used this newly built vmlinux for debug kernel with crash it threw error that kernel version mismatch. Now I am stuck.
Please help me in setting up the kdump on centos7 with debug kernel & debug vmlinux.
Since I am new to centos I was not aware of debug pakages has vmlinux. i have installed debug rpms using following command:
yum --enablerepo=debug install kexec-tools crash kernel-debug kernel-debuginfo-`uname -r`
I notice kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 has vmlinux at location:
/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64/vmlinux
So i got the vmlinux.
This vmlinux works with non-debug kernel.
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I need to know the version of a kernel file without running it. Therefore, the following questions arise in this realm:
Is it possible to get the kernel version in the u-boot environment? I mean before running the kernel I want to get the version of my kernel file.
Suppose I am running ubuntu on my amd64 processor and I have a zImage file which is cross compiled for ARM processor. Therefore I can not run this zImage file on amd64. Then how can I get version of this zImage file without running it on an ARM processor? I checked out uname manual but it does not accept a file as argument. I also issued readelf -V on a vmlinux kernel file, but it was an unsuccessful attempt.
I followed following instructions to install the kernel source code onto my CentOS 6.5 development box(from http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/I_need_the_Kernel_Source)
[user#host]$ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
[user#host SPECS]$ rpmbuild -bp --target=$(uname -m) kernel.spec
Overall, I now have the source under ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.32-431.20.3.el6/linux-2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64/
However, when I try to compile netmap (which applies patches to the kernel source directory). I notice the following warnings
ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.
include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.
Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.
I am not seeing this on Ubuntu. I'm suspecting that I did not prepare the kernel source tree correctly, can I do that with Redhat kernel source RPM?
Ran, "make oldconfig", "make preprare", and "make prepare scripts" prior to building against kernel source
i am using ubuntu 12.04 and kernel version is 3.12.6, i want to learn how to use kgdb to debug kernel. I didn't get much info. regarding kgdboe (kgdb over ethernet). I have compiled kernel and enabled kgdb in menuconfig, i have created kernel image using make bzImage on development machine and copied same on target machine, now problem is how to connect both target and development machine. i m not getting parameter set for kgbdoe. Plz help if anybody know how to use kgdb over ethernet
Have you read this:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jwessel/kgdb/ch03s04.html
?
You have to run debugged kernel with special options - like for example:
kgdbwait kgdbcon kgdboe=#192.168.248.76/,#192.168.242.24/00:11:22:33:44:55
and on debugging side you run following commands:
gdb
file vmlinux
target remote udp:192.168.248.76:6443
it has worked for me.
You can get the kgdboe source from here, build it and load it into your kernel:
make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build M=$(pwd)
sudo insmod kgdboe.ko
Then type 'dmesg' to see the load log and get instructions on connecting from gdb.
I am trying to compile the linux kernel (3.0.0-13) with the Xen dom0 config flags which are not exposed via menuconfig. (Yes, I know that ubuntu provides a 'virtual' flavoured kernel that supports Xen paravirtualization, but that kernel does not seem to boot on my hardware. So, I am trying to compile the 'generic' flavoured ubuntu kernel with the extra Xen config flags since I know that the 'generic' flavour runs on my hardware). Every time that I try to compile my config flags are ignored based on the .config file that is generated and packaged with my kernel binary.
I have tried the following the following:
Downloaded the kernel source using apt-get source linux-image
I have then followed all of the steps from this guide: How to compile a new Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) kernel and performed the following extra steps:
put my own config flags in the config.flavour.xxx file then compiled the linux-image package
Paused the 'debian/rules editconfigs' command immediately after the it runs 'menuconfig' and replaced the build/.config file with my custom .config file then compiled the linux-image package
I have also used the following howto How To Compile A Kernel - The Ubuntu Way and run the following commands on kernel source code that I already had:
edit the .config file to have my config flags
run 'make oldconfig'
run 'make-kpkg clean && fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers'
After every time I have compiled the kernel I have installed the newly compiled linux-image package and have discovered that my config flags are not in the /boot/config-xxx file as I expect.
What am I doing wrong to cause my config flags to be ignored?
What can I do to make sure that my kernel config flags are used when compiling?
Is there some other option than recompiling the kernel to get a Xen dom0 kernel that work for my hardware?
For question 3: Is there another way to get a xen dom0 kernel for my hardware?
Yes.
Although all of the xen documentation says that all stock kernel support xen dom0, what they mean is that the source for all stock kernels now support xen dom0 but that support is turned off in their precompiled binaries.
On debian there is the following package which is a prebuilt linux kernel with the xen dom0 support turned on. Package: linux-image-xen-686
For anyone else who is really looking to compile their own xen dom0 kernel the following site has a good guide: Compiling a Xen Dom0 Kernel for Ubuntu Jaunty
What am I doing wrong to cause my config flags to be ignored?
The root of the issue lies in the first portion of your problem; the Xen dom0 config flags are not exposed via menuconfig
Simply setting them in the .config doesn't mean they'll be activated. You have to consider the dependencies for the config options.
From the linux 3.0 tag at github: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/02f8c6aee8df3cdc935e9bdd4f2d020306035dbe/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
config XEN_DOM0
def_bool y
depends on XEN && PCI_XEN && SWIOTLB_XEN
depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC && ACPI && PCI
Are all these depends flags met?
What can I do to make sure that my kernel config flags are used when compiling?
In the beginning stages of the kernel compile process, the .config file is re-written if there are any discrepancies. A good test to make sure your edits will persist is checking if they still exist in your .config file after doing a make menuconfig and saving changes. If after that your flags are still there, you can be sure that your flags are being used.
Is there some other option than recompiling the kernel to get a Xen dom0 kernel that work for my hardware?
Not unless another distribution ships with XEN_DOM0 enabled.
I 've cross compiled a Linux Kernel (for ARM on i686 - using Cross-LFS).
Now I'm trying to boot this Kernel using QEMU.
$ qemu-system-arm -m 128 -kernel /mnt/clfs-dec4/boot/clfskernel-2.6.38.2 --nographic -M versatilepb
Then, it shows this line and waits for infinite time !!
Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
So, I want to debug the kernel, so that I can study what exactly is happening.
I'm new to these kernel builds, Can someone please help me to debug my custom built kernel as it is not even showing anything after that statement. Is there any possibility of the kernel being broken? ( I dont think so, b'se it didnot give any error while compiling )
And my aim is to generate a custom build very minimal Linux OS. Any suggestions regarding any tool-chains etc which would be easy & flexible depending on my requirements like drivers etc.,
ThankYou
You can use GDB to debug your kernel with QEMU you can use -s -S options. If you want a simple and reliable toolchain, you can use ELDK from DENX (http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK).
You can install it like this (It's not the last version, but you got the idea):
wget http://ftp.denx.de/pub/eldk/4.2/arm-linux-x86/iso/arm-2008-11-24.iso
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom (if necessary)
sudo mount -o loop arm-2008-11-24.iso /mnt/cdrom
/mnt/cdrom/install -d $HOME/EMBEDDED_TOOLS/ELDK/
The command above should install the toolchain under $HOLE/EMBEDDED_TOOLS/ELDK (modify it if you need)
echo "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/EMBEDDED_TOOLS/ELDK/ELDK42/usr/bin" >> $HOME/.bashrc
You can then see the version of your ARM toolchain like this:
arm-linux-gcc -v
You can test a hello_world.c program like this:
arm-linux-gcc hello_world.c -o hello_world
And you type: file hello_wrold to see the target architecture of the binary, it should be something like this:
hello_wrold: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV)
Now if you want to compile a production kernel, you need to optimize it (i suggest using busybox) and if you want just one for testing now, try this steps:
Create a script to set your chain tool set_toolchain.sh:
#! /usr/bin/sh
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/EMBEDDED_TOOLS/ELDK/ELDK42/usr/bin
ARCH=arm
CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi-
export PATH ARCH CROSS_COMPILE
And run your script (source ./set_toolchain.sh)
Download a linux kernel and unzip it (Let's assume 2.6.x, it's an old kernel, but there are a lot of chances that it work without compilation errors).
Inside your unzipped kernel:
cd ~/linux-2.6.29/arch/arm/configs
make versatile_defconfig
Here we use versatile chip, you may need to use make menuconfig to modify the option OABI and set it to ARM EABI, this option is under Kernel features menu
After all this steps, you can compile you kernel:
make
if you want verbose compilation make v=1
After this you got your kernel under arch/arm/boot/zImage.
Hope this help.
Regards.
I would suggest to build your kernel by activating the option in the section Kernel hacking of your configuration file.
Then you may use kdb or kgdb which is easier to use but requires another machine running gdb.
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You can also connect Qemu and GDB. Qemu has the -s and -S options that run a GDB server and allow you to connect to it via TCP to localhost:1234. Then you can load your kernel image (the unzipped one) in GDB and see how far your kernel boots.