[PATCH 0/3] makedumpfile: hugepage filtering for vmcore dump

[Atsushi Kumagai]

On 2013/11/29 12:24:45, kexec <kexec-bounces at lists.infradead.org> wrote:
> (2013/11/29 12:02), Atsushi Kumagai wrote:
> > On 2013/11/28 16:50:21, kexec <kexec-bounces at lists.infradead.org> wrote:
> >>>> ping, in case you overlooked this...
> >>>
> >>> Sorry for the delayed response, I prioritize the release of v1.5.5 now.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your advice, check_cyclic_buffer_overrun() should be fixed
> >>> as you said. In addition, I'm considering other way to address such case,
> >>> that is to bring the number of "overflowed pages" to the next cycle and
> >>> exclude them at the top of __exclude_unnecessary_pages() like below:
> >>>
> >>>                  /*
> >>>                   * The pages which should be excluded still remain.
> >>>                   */
> >>>                  if (remainder >= 1) {
> >>>                          int i;
> >>>                          unsigned long tmp;
> >>>                          for (i = 0; i < remainder; ++i) {
> >>>                                  if (clear_bit_on_2nd_bitmap_for_kernel(pfn + i)) {
> >>>                                          pfn_user++;
> >>>                                          tmp++;
> >>>                                  }
> >>>                          }
> >>>                          pfn += tmp;
> >>>                          remainder -= tmp;
> >>>                          mem_map += (tmp - 1) * SIZE(page);
> >>>                          continue;
> >>>                  }
> >>>
> >>> If this way works well, then aligning info->buf_size_cyclic will be
> >>> unnecessary.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I selected the current implementation of changing cyclic buffer size becuase
> >> I thought it was simpler than carrying over remaining filtered pages to next cycle
> >> in that there was no need to add extra code in filtering processing.
> >>
> >> I guess the reason why you think this is better now is how to detect maximum order of
> >> huge page is hard in some way, right?
> > 
> > The maximum order will be gotten from HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER or HPAGE_PMD_ORDER,
> > so I don't say it's hard. However, the carrying over method doesn't depend on
> > such kernel symbols, so I think it's robuster.
> > 
> 
> Then, it's better to remove check_cyclic_buffer_overrun() and rewrite part of free page
> filtering in __exclude_unnecessary_pages(). Could you do that too?

Sure, I'll modify it too.


Thanks
Atsushi Kumagai