Initramfs for kdump is unexpectedly recreated every time an guest OS boots.
Issue
- Initramfs for kdump is unexpectedly recreated every time an guest OS boots.
- We expect initramfs is recreated only when some configurations are changed.
- Initramfs is recreated, because the following drivers are not loaded when the kdump service starts up.
Dec 07 14:00:23 localhost.localdomain kdumpctl[5405]: Detected change(s) of loaded kernel modules list:
Dec 07 14:00:23 localhost.localdomain kdumpctl[5405]: -devlink
Dec 07 14:00:23 localhost.localdomain kdumpctl[5405]: -ipt_MASQUERADE
Dec 07 14:00:23 localhost.localdomain kdumpctl[5405]: -nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4
Dec 07 14:00:23 localhost.localdomain kdumpctl[5405]: -tun
Dec 07 14:00:23 localhost.localdomain kdumpctl[5405]: -xt_CHECKSUM
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
- kexec-tools-2.0.15-21.el7.x86_64
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