[Crash-utility] crash error out with kernel dump with "cgroup.memory=nokmem"

Jinpu Wang jinpu.wang at cloud.ionos.com
Wed Dec 16 12:59:30 UTC 2020


On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 4:10 PM Jack Wang <jack.wang.usish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Due to a slab memory leak with dying cgroup in 4.19. we disable the
> kernel memory accounting for cgroup with kernel with
> "cgroup.memory=nokmem", but since that, crash can't parse the crash
> dump.
I did more test by generate crash via sysrq from testing machine with
exact same setting,
but crash works just fine without a problem, so this might be just the
dump file somehow corrupted I guess.

It's likely a one time thing, will report back if we have other findings.

Thanks!
Jack Wang




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