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kdump: add udev events for memory online/offline
authorMichael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 8 Dec 2011 04:42:53 +0000 (15:42 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:19:20 +0000 (15:19 +1100)
commitcaa027777c660329fdda657aa88d0d2a1ba22286
treed299e211e8af45efb9f9744967143f491886e6b5
parent00f7710a04866d2bb6c789bcc179430ed75b16db
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