The kdump-load script is the only one that has more than a
single functionality, potentially being invoked in different ways.
With that in mind, just add a small usage/help for users'
information (thanks Emil for the suggestion).
While at it, changed the additional commands to be more friendly
and require exactly one command to be passed - changes summary:
s/initrd/create-initrd
s/clear/clear-initrd
s//load
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
This is somewhat a big refactor. The early design of kdump/pstore was
meant to support the A/B scheme of Steam Deck and a dracut-based initrd
only. In this scheme, we had a DEVNODE (like nvme partition or a devlink)
that represented the device node to be mounted early in boot when kdump
was in use. Also, we had a folder defined in the config file on top of
such dev node, and a temporary file used to "carry" the composition of
the full kdump path across boot time scripts. Yeah, kinda complex setup.
We are now moving to a more generic approach, and for that, the design
choice was a more convenient/simple one for the common cases, that
requires some operations to properly work on SteamOS dracut-based initrd.
Now we have only a single path on config file, which should be accessible
in a R/W filesystem by both scripts executed in the systemd service. No
devnode information or temp file is used anymore.
But with that, comes the need of discovering the proper devnode and base
folder for kdump'ing early in boot, from the initrd. Using the findmnt
tool we manage to derive all the necessary data during the initrd
preparation phase. Also, while at it we manage to fix an "inconsistency"
of our dracut initrd creation script: installkernel() should be responsible
to deal with DRM modules removal, not install().
On top of this (already big) change, now our dracut initrd excludes not
only amdgpu driver/FWs, but radeon, nvidia and i915 as well. And due to
our refactor of the mount point information (using findmnt to collect info
during dracut initrd creation), we also allow now arbitrary filesystem
drivers to be included, i.e., we don't hardcode/limit for ext4 only.
Again, mea culpa for not splitting this in multiple atomic/simple commits,
the burden to keep a pretty git log is starting to consume precious time.
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Based on Emil's (xexaxo) feedback, we now have a common.sh file
that contains the implementation of the routine to read all config
files for kdump/pstore, and we use Makefile to join the files,
having the same implemention in all users.
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
