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kdump: Add udev events for memory online/offline
authorMichael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:20:23 +0000 (11:20 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:58:43 +0000 (13:58 +1100)
commit8b79c3a9bd35b0d3adaa2a5dd07b096b0d0d795b
tree44e930d193fbd7b3b181609f5637cddfcd3fe472
parent447ab6c219c7af1467beb4576471d18e46b491d9
kdump: Add udev events for memory online/offline

Currently no udev events for memory hotplug "online" and "offline" are
generated:

# udevadm monitor
# echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory4/state
==> No event

When kdump is loaded, kexec detects the current memory configuration and
stores it in the pre-allocated ELF core header.  Therefore, for kdump it
is necessary to reload the kdump kernel with kexec when the memory
configuration changes (e.g.  for online/offline hotplug memory).

In order to do this automatically, udev rules should be used.  This kernel
patch adds udev events for "online" and "offline".  Together with this
kernel patch, the following udev rules for online/offline have to be added
to "/etc/udev/rules.d/98-kexec.rules":

SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="online", PROGRAM="/etc/init.d/kdump restart"
SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="offline", PROGRAM="/etc/init.d/kdump restart"

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/base/memory.c