[Arm-dev] kexec: failed to load kdump kernel

Thu May 11 13:15:44 UTC 2017
Lourival Pedrosa <lourivalpedrosa at gmail.com>

Matt

Same problem .... rasp pi 3 b

2017-05-10 12:17 GMT-03:00 Matt McLean <mattmc at umich.edu>:

>
> I have 40 brand new Cavium R270-T60-V6 systems (T32 BIOS) with CentOS
> 7.3.1611 installed.  Five of them are failing at boot with:
>
>         kdumpctl[9698]: Could not find a free area of memory of 0x10000
> bytes...
>         kdumpctl[9698]: locate_hole failed
>         kdumpctl[9698]: kexec: failed to load kdump kernel
>         kdumpctl[9698]: Starting kdump: [FAILED]
>
> The systems are identical in every way (Memory, CPU, disks, firmware,
> network, location....).
>
> A comparison of their "dmesg" output shows no smoking gun, but I do not
> know if differences like this are significant:
>
> <  efi:  ESRT=0x13ffe1b0e98  SMBIOS 3.0=0xfffeb000  ACPI 2.0=0x13feaba0000
> ---
>
>>  efi:  ESRT=0x13ffe1b0e98  SMBIOS 3.0=0xfffeb000  ACPI 2.0=0x13feab9f000
>>
>
> <  Memory: 533473024K/536820736K available (7232K kernel code, 1406K
> rwdata, 3456K rodata, 1152K init, 6589K bss, 2823424K reserved, 524288K
> cma-reserved)
> ---
>
>>  Memory: 533473152K/536820736K available (7232K kernel code, 1406K
>> rwdata, 3456K rodata, 1152K init, 6589K bss, 2823296K reserved, 524288K
>> cma-reserved)
>>
>
> Any tips on where to look next are appreciated.
>
> (Also, if there is a more appropriate distro for this question, please
> advise).
>
> Peace.
> --
> Matt McLean
> ARC-TS Operations
> mattmc at umich.edu
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