[PATCH v2 1/2] kexec: Respect memory limit while building crash memory ranges on ppc32.
Mahesh J Salgaonkar
mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Feb 12 05:47:16 EST 2013
From: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
So far powerpc kernel never exported memory limit information which is
reflected by mem= kernel cmdline option. Hence, kexec-tools always used
to build ELF header for entire system RAM generating a dump bigger than
the actual memory used by the first kernel.
This patch now reads the memory limit information from device-tree file and
limits the crash memory ranges accordingly.
Suzuki tested this patch on ppc32(ppc440) with a kernel patch by Suzuki.
The following are the upstream kernel commits that exports memory limit
information through /proc/device-tree file:
4bc77a5ed - powerpc: Export memory limit via device tree
a84fcd468 - powerpc: Change memory_limit from phys_addr_t to unsigned
long long
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki at in.ibm.com>
---
kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.c | 14 ++++++++--
kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.h | 1 +
kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-ppc.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.c b/kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.c
index 4c8c75d..d367643 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.c
@@ -132,8 +132,9 @@ static int get_crash_memory_ranges(struct memory_range **range, int *ranges)
goto err;
}
n = read_memory_region_limits(fd, &start, &end);
+ /* We are done with fd, close it. */
+ close(fd);
if (n != 0) {
- close(fd);
closedir(dmem);
closedir(dir);
goto err;
@@ -153,8 +154,16 @@ static int get_crash_memory_ranges(struct memory_range **range, int *ranges)
cstart = crash_base;
cend = crash_base + crash_size;
/*
- * Exclude the region that lies within crashkernel
+ * Exclude the region that lies within crashkernel.
+ * If memory limit is set then exclude memory region
+ * above it.
*/
+ if (memory_limit) {
+ if (start >= memory_limit)
+ continue;
+ if (end > memory_limit)
+ end = memory_limit;
+ }
if (cstart < end && cend > start) {
if (start < cstart && end > cend) {
crash_memory_range[memory_ranges].start
@@ -195,7 +204,6 @@ static int get_crash_memory_ranges(struct memory_range **range, int *ranges)
= RANGE_RAM;
memory_ranges++;
}
- close(fd);
}
closedir(dmem);
}
diff --git a/kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.h b/kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.h
index a377146..84a73aa 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.h
+++ b/kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.h
@@ -42,5 +42,6 @@ extern unsigned long long crash_base;
extern unsigned long long crash_size;
extern unsigned int rtas_base;
extern unsigned int rtas_size;
+extern uint64_t memory_limit;
#endif /* CRASHDUMP_POWERPC_H */
diff --git a/kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-ppc.c b/kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-ppc.c
index 6075477..5a2966e 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-ppc.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-ppc.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
unsigned long dt_address_cells = 0, dt_size_cells = 0;
uint64_t rmo_top;
+uint64_t memory_limit;
unsigned long long crash_base = 0, crash_size = 0;
unsigned long long initrd_base = 0, initrd_size = 0;
unsigned long long ramdisk_base = 0, ramdisk_size = 0;
@@ -384,6 +385,44 @@ static int get_base_ranges(void)
return 0;
}
+static int read_kernel_memory_limit(char *fname, char *buf)
+{
+ FILE *file;
+ int n;
+
+ if (!fname || !buf)
+ return -1;
+
+ file = fopen(fname, "r");
+ if (file == NULL) {
+ if (errno != ENOENT) {
+ perror(fname);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ errno = 0;
+ /*
+ * fall through. On older kernel this file
+ * is not present. Hence return success.
+ */
+ } else {
+ /* Memory limit property is of u64 type. */
+ if ((n = fread(&memory_limit, 1, sizeof(uint64_t), file)) < 0) {
+ perror(fname);
+ goto err_out;
+ }
+ if (n != sizeof(uint64_t)) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "%s node has invalid size: %d\n",
+ fname, n);
+ goto err_out;
+ }
+ fclose(file);
+ }
+ return 0;
+err_out:
+ fclose(file);
+ return -1;
+}
+
/* Get devtree details and create exclude_range array
* Also create usablemem_ranges for KEXEC_ON_CRASH
*/
@@ -511,6 +550,18 @@ static int get_devtree_details(unsigned long kexec_flags)
add_usable_mem_rgns(crash_base, crash_size);
#endif
}
+ /*
+ * Read the first kernel's memory limit.
+ * If the first kernel is booted with mem= option then
+ * it would export "linux,memory-limit" file
+ * reflecting value for the same.
+ */
+ memset(fname, 0, sizeof(fname));
+ snprintf(fname, sizeof(fname), "%s%s%s", device_tree,
+ dentry->d_name, "/linux,memory-limit");
+ if (read_kernel_memory_limit(fname, buf) < 0)
+ goto error_opencdir;
+
/* reserve the initrd_start and end locations. */
memset(fname, 0, sizeof(fname));
sprintf(fname, "%s%s%s",
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