This is somewhat an intrusive change, but necessary if we want
to upstream the kdump tooling while allowing great extent of
customizations on SteamOS.
With this change, we have now a kdump.d folder on /usr/share,
that holds configuration files in the same way sysctl.d does.
In other words, we can easily override default settings by
just having more configuration files, which are sourced
following natural name sorting, i.e., we have now the concept
of config file precedence in kdump.
Our default config file is called 00-default, so we eventually
might have a 01-steamos e.g., with Deck's custom settings.
This is planned to other package though.
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Remove Steam/SteamOS references from things like headers,
journal error messages, etc.
While at it, also improve wording in some points.
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
This patch main goal is to "un-Debianize" the configuration file
for kdump-steamos - thanks Emil (@xexaxo) for the discussions; it
is with a bit of a heavy heart I do that, but let's comply with the
modern distros ;-)
We hereby put the config file in a more standard path: /usr/share.
Usually users could override that with /etc/ file, but not in this
case, or at least, not for now. Kdump/pstore is expected to work
quietly, with no users' interference. Advanced users might want to
play with the configs though; and those can just go ahead and edit
the /usr/share/kdump/kdump.conf - it's all documented in the README.
In the future we can improve that by having the override mechanism
with the /etc file, let's see if we have a demand for that.
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Thanks to Emil (@xexaxo) suggestion, we hereby implement a less fragile
way of obtaining the "/home" mount point. Emil suggested that instead of
using device name directly, we could use the generic link, as in:
"/dev/disk/by-partsets/shared/home".
In principle the change would be simple, but it proved to be a bit tricky
due to the early boot stage kdump executes - in such point we don't have
this link available, so we need to rely in the full device name directly
on kdump collection. We achieve that by saving this information in the
kdump initrd - this is not completely safe, see the CAVEAT below.
Also, we improved kdump loading script by using "findmnt", a less
fragile / more elegant way of getting the "/home" mount point.
CAVEAT: NVMe multipathing introduced a "randomness" level to device
naming on Linux, so "nvme0n1" could be "nvme1n1" in some boots, if we
have more than one device. There is a kernel parameter to avoid that
("nvme_core.multipath=0"), see [0] for more information.
Due to this reason, we could in theory have different NVMe device
names between regular kernel boot and the kdump one, hence causing a
failure in kdump collection.
But this is pretty much safe since we don't have multiple NVMe
devices, also we could disable multipath in kernel config
(CONFIG_NVME_MULTIPATH) or use the above cmdline.
[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1792660/
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Currently half of the files are hyphenated, while the rest use
underscore. Just move everything to hyphens.
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
