[PATCH v22 1/8] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel

Dennis Chen dennis.chen at arm.com
Tue Jul 19 02:39:07 PDT 2016


Hello AKASHI,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 02:05:07PM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> On the startup of primary kernel, the memory region used by crash dump
> kernel must be specified by "crashkernel=" kernel parameter.
> reserve_crashkernel() will allocate and reserve the region for later use.
>
> User space tools, like kexec-tools, will be able to find that region as
>       - "Crash kernel" in /proc/iomem, or
>       - "linux,crashkernel-base" and "linux,crashkernel-size" under
>         /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/chosen
>
> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand at redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c |   7 ++-
>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c      | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> index c1509e6..cb5eee0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
>  #include <linux/screen_info.h>
>  #include <linux/init.h>
>  #include <linux/kexec.h>
> -#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
>  #include <linux/root_dev.h>
>  #include <linux/cpu.h>
>  #include <linux/interrupt.h>
> @@ -222,6 +221,12 @@ static void __init request_standard_resources(void)
>                   kernel_data.end <= res->end)
>                       request_resource(res, &kernel_data);
>       }
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
> +     /* User space tools will find "Crash kernel" region in /proc/iomem. */
> +     if (crashk_res.end)
> +             insert_resource(&iomem_resource, &crashk_res);
> +#endif
>  }
>
>  u64 __cpu_logical_map[NR_CPUS] = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = INVALID_HWID };
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index 2ade7a6..51b1302 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -29,11 +29,13 @@
>  #include <linux/gfp.h>
>  #include <linux/memblock.h>
>  #include <linux/sort.h>
> +#include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/of_fdt.h>
>  #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
>  #include <linux/dma-contiguous.h>
>  #include <linux/efi.h>
>  #include <linux/swiotlb.h>
> +#include <linux/kexec.h>
>
>  #include <asm/boot.h>
>  #include <asm/fixmap.h>
> @@ -76,6 +78,117 @@ static int __init early_initrd(char *p)
>  early_param("initrd", early_initrd);
>  #endif
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
> +static unsigned long long crash_size, crash_base;
> +static struct property crash_base_prop = {
> +     .name = "linux,crashkernel-base",
> +     .length = sizeof(u64),
> +     .value = &crash_base
> +};
> +static struct property crash_size_prop = {
> +     .name = "linux,crashkernel-size",
> +     .length = sizeof(u64),
> +     .value = &crash_size,
> +};
> +
> +static int __init export_crashkernel(void)
> +{
> +     struct device_node *node;
> +     int ret;
> +
> +     if (!crashk_res.end)
> +             return 0;
> +
> +     crash_base = cpu_to_be64(crashk_res.start);
> +     crash_size = cpu_to_be64(crashk_res.end - crashk_res.start + 1);
> +
> +     /* Add /chosen/linux,crashkernel-* properties */
> +     node = of_find_node_by_path("/chosen");
> +     if (!node)
> +             return -ENOENT;
> +
> +     /*
> +      * There might be existing crash kernel properties, but we can't
> +      * be sure what's in them, so remove them.
> +      */
> +     of_remove_property(node, of_find_property(node,
> +                             "linux,crashkernel-base", NULL));
> +     of_remove_property(node, of_find_property(node,
> +                             "linux,crashkernel-size", NULL));
> +
> +     ret = of_add_property(node, &crash_base_prop);
> +     if (ret)
> +             goto ret_err;
> +
> +     ret = of_add_property(node, &crash_size_prop);
> +     if (ret)
> +             goto ret_err;
> +
> +     return 0;
> +
> +ret_err:
> +     pr_warn("Exporting crashkernel region to device tree failed\n");
> +     return ret;
> +}
> +late_initcall(export_crashkernel);
> +
> +/*
> + * reserve_crashkernel() - reserves memory for crash kernel
> + *
> + * This function reserves memory area given in "crashkernel=" kernel command
> + * line parameter. The memory reserved is used by dump capture kernel when
> + * primary kernel is crashing.
> + */
> +static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
> +{
> +     int ret;
> +
> +     ret = parse_crashkernel(boot_command_line, memblock_phys_mem_size(),
> +                             &crash_size, &crash_base);
> +     /* no crashkernel= or invalid value specified */
> +     if (ret || !crash_size)
> +             return;
> +
> +     if (crash_base == 0) {
> +             /* Current arm64 boot protocol requires 2MB alignment */
> +             crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(0,
> +                             MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, crash_size, SZ_2M);
> +             if (crash_base == 0) {
> +                     pr_warn("Unable to allocate crashkernel (size:%llx)\n",
> +                             crash_size);
> +                     return;
> +             }
> +             memblock_reserve(crash_base, crash_size);
>
I am not pretty sure the context here, but
can we use below code piece instead of the above lines?
        if (crash_base == 0)
                memblock_alloc(crash_size, SZ_2M);

Thanks,
Dennis

> +
> +     } else {
> +             /* User specifies base address explicitly. */
> +             if (!memblock_is_region_memory(crash_base, crash_size) ||
> +                     memblock_is_region_reserved(crash_base, crash_size)) {
> +                     pr_warn("crashkernel has wrong address or size\n");
> +                     return;
> +             }
> +
> +             if (!IS_ALIGNED(crash_base, SZ_2M)) {
> +                     pr_warn("crashkernel base address is not 2MB aligned\n");
> +                     return;
> +             }
> +
> +             memblock_reserve(crash_base, crash_size);
> +     }
> +
> +     pr_info("Reserving %lldMB of memory at %lldMB for crashkernel\n",
> +             crash_size >> 20, crash_base >> 20);
> +
> +     crashk_res.start = crash_base;
> +     crashk_res.end = crash_base + crash_size - 1;
> +}
> +#else
> +static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
> +{
> +     ;
> +}
> +#endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE */
> +
>  /*
>   * Return the maximum physical address for ZONE_DMA (DMA_BIT_MASK(32)). It
>   * currently assumes that for memory starting above 4G, 32-bit devices will
> @@ -289,6 +402,8 @@ void __init arm64_memblock_init(void)
>       }
>  #endif
>
> +     reserve_crashkernel();
> +
>       early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem();
>
>       /* 4GB maximum for 32-bit only capable devices */
> --
> 2.9.0
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> linux-arm-kernel mailing list
> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
>
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.




More information about the kexec mailing list