fadump: isolate fadump initramfs image within the default one
Resolves: bz1924115
Conflict: None
Upstream: Fedora
commit fa9201b2400565aca8165b9cd0a5151f1f94c7be (devel)
Author: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Wed Jun 23 20:06:48 2021 +0530
fadump: isolate fadump initramfs image within the default one
In case of fadump, the initramfs image has to be built to boot into
the production environment as well as to offload the active crash dump
to the specified dump target (for boot after crash). As the same image
would be used for both boot scenarios, it could not be built optimally
while accommodating both cases.
Use --include to include the initramfs image built for offloading
active crash dump to the specified dump target. Also, introduce a new
out-of-tree dracut module (99zz-fadumpinit) that installs a customized
init program while moving the default /init to /init.dracut. This
customized init program is leveraged to isolate fadump image within
the default initramfs image by kicking off default boot process
(exec /init.dracut) for regular boot scenario and activating fadump
initramfs image, if the system is booting after a crash.
If squash is available, ensure default initramfs image is also built
with squash module to reduce memory consumption in capture kernel.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>