[PATCH v3 1/2] Generic handling of multi-page exclusions

Petr Tesarik ptesarik at suse.cz
Wed May 7 10:06:42 PDT 2014


When multiple pages are excluded from the dump, store the extents in
struct cycle and check if anything is still pending on the next invocation
of __exclude_unnecessary_pages. This assumes that:

  1. after __exclude_unnecessary_pages is called for a struct mem_map_data
     that extends beyond the current cycle, it is not called again during
     that cycle,
  2. in the next cycle, __exclude_unnecessary_pages is not called before
     this final struct mem_map_data.

Both assumptions are met if struct mem_map_data segments:

  1. do not overlap,
  2. are sorted by physical address in ascending order.

These two conditions are true for all supported memory models.

Note that the start PFN of the excluded extent is set to the end of the
current cycle (which is equal to the start of the next cycle, see
update_cycle), so only the part of the excluded region which falls beyond
current cycle buffer is valid. If the excluded region is completely
processed in the current cycle, the start PFN is bigger than the end PFN
and no work is done at the beginning of the next cycle.

After processing the leftover from last cycle, pfn_start and mem_map are
adjusted to skip the excluded pages. There is no check whether the
adjusted pfn_start is within the current cycle. Nothing bad happens if
it isn't, because pages outside the current cyclic region are ignored by
the subsequent loop, and the remainder is postponed to the next cycle by
exclude_range().

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik at suse.cz>
---
 makedumpfile.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 makedumpfile.h |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/makedumpfile.c b/makedumpfile.c
index 16081a5..a3498e4 100644
--- a/makedumpfile.c
+++ b/makedumpfile.c
@@ -4667,6 +4667,26 @@ initialize_2nd_bitmap_cyclic(struct cycle *cycle)
 	return TRUE;
 }
 
+static void
+exclude_range(mdf_pfn_t *counter, mdf_pfn_t pfn, mdf_pfn_t endpfn,
+    struct cycle *cycle)
+{
+	if (cycle) {
+		cycle->exclude_pfn_start = cycle->end_pfn;
+		cycle->exclude_pfn_end = endpfn;
+		cycle->exclude_pfn_counter = counter;
+
+		if (cycle->end_pfn < endpfn)
+			endpfn = cycle->end_pfn;
+	}
+
+	while (pfn < endpfn) {
+		if (clear_bit_on_2nd_bitmap_for_kernel(pfn, cycle))
+			(*counter)++;
+		++pfn;
+	}
+}
+
 int
 __exclude_unnecessary_pages(unsigned long mem_map,
     mdf_pfn_t pfn_start, mdf_pfn_t pfn_end, struct cycle *cycle)
@@ -4681,6 +4701,18 @@ __exclude_unnecessary_pages(unsigned long mem_map,
 	unsigned long flags, mapping, private = 0;
 
 	/*
+	 * If a multi-page exclusion is pending, do it first
+	 */
+	if (cycle && cycle->exclude_pfn_start < cycle->exclude_pfn_end) {
+		exclude_range(cycle->exclude_pfn_counter,
+			cycle->exclude_pfn_start, cycle->exclude_pfn_end,
+			cycle);
+
+		mem_map += (cycle->exclude_pfn_end - pfn_start) * SIZE(page);
+		pfn_start = cycle->exclude_pfn_end;
+	}
+
+	/*
 	 * Refresh the buffer of struct page, when changing mem_map.
 	 */
 	pfn_read_start = ULONGLONG_MAX;
@@ -4744,21 +4776,10 @@ __exclude_unnecessary_pages(unsigned long mem_map,
 		if ((info->dump_level & DL_EXCLUDE_FREE)
 		    && info->page_is_buddy
 		    && info->page_is_buddy(flags, _mapcount, private, _count)) {
-			int i, nr_pages = 1 << private;
+			int nr_pages = 1 << private;
+
+			exclude_range(&pfn_free, pfn, pfn + nr_pages, cycle);
 
-			for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; ++i) {
-				/*
-				 * According to combination of
-				 * MAX_ORDER and size of cyclic
-				 * buffer, this clearing bit operation
-				 * can overrun the cyclic buffer.
-				 *
-				 * See check_cyclic_buffer_overrun()
-				 * for the detail.
-				 */
-				if (clear_bit_on_2nd_bitmap_for_kernel((pfn + i), cycle))
-					pfn_free++;
-			}
 			pfn += nr_pages - 1;
 			mem_map += (nr_pages - 1) * SIZE(page);
 		}
diff --git a/makedumpfile.h b/makedumpfile.h
index eb03688..43cf91d 100644
--- a/makedumpfile.h
+++ b/makedumpfile.h
@@ -1593,6 +1593,11 @@ int get_xen_info_ia64(void);
 struct cycle {
 	mdf_pfn_t start_pfn;
 	mdf_pfn_t end_pfn;
+
+	/* for excluding multi-page regions */
+	mdf_pfn_t exclude_pfn_start;
+	mdf_pfn_t exclude_pfn_end;
+	mdf_pfn_t *exclude_pfn_counter;
 };
 
 static inline int
-- 
1.8.4.5




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