[PATCH v35 10/14] arm64: kdump: provide /proc/vmcore file

AKASHI Takahiro takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Sun Apr 2 19:24:38 PDT 2017


Arch-specific functions are added to allow for implementing a crash dump
file interface, /proc/vmcore, which can be viewed as a ELF file.

A user space tool, like kexec-tools, is responsible for allocating
a separate region for the core's ELF header within crash kdump kernel
memory and filling it in when executing kexec_load().

Then, its location will be advertised to crash dump kernel via a new
device-tree property, "linux,elfcorehdr", and crash dump kernel preserves
the region for later use with reserve_elfcorehdr() at boot time.

On crash dump kernel, /proc/vmcore will access the primary kernel's memory
with copy_oldmem_page(), which feeds the data page-by-page by ioremap'ing
it since it does not reside in linear mapping on crash dump kernel.

Meanwhile, elfcorehdr_read() is simple as the region is always mapped.

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig             | 11 +++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile     |  1 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/crash_dump.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/mm/init.c           | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 136 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/crash_dump.c

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 3741859765cf..e7f043efff41 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -736,6 +736,17 @@ config KEXEC
 	  but it is independent of the system firmware.   And like a reboot
 	  you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
 
+config CRASH_DUMP
+	bool "Build kdump crash kernel"
+	help
+	  Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. This should
+	  be normally only set in special crash dump kernels which are
+	  loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into a specially
+	  reserved region and then later executed after a crash by
+	  kdump/kexec.
+
+	  For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+
 config XEN_DOM0
 	def_bool y
 	depends on XEN
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
index 1606c6b2a280..0fe44a7513ff 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE)	+= kaslr.o
 arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_HIBERNATION)		+= hibernate.o hibernate-asm.o
 arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_KEXEC)		+= machine_kexec.o relocate_kernel.o	\
 					   cpu-reset.o
+arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP)		+= crash_dump.o
 
 obj-y					+= $(arm64-obj-y) vdso/ probes/
 obj-m					+= $(arm64-obj-m)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/crash_dump.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/crash_dump.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f46d57c31443
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/crash_dump.c
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/*
+ * Routines for doing kexec-based kdump
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Linaro Limited
+ * Author: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
+#include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/io.h>
+#include <linux/memblock.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <asm/memory.h>
+
+/**
+ * copy_oldmem_page() - copy one page from old kernel memory
+ * @pfn: page frame number to be copied
+ * @buf: buffer where the copied page is placed
+ * @csize: number of bytes to copy
+ * @offset: offset in bytes into the page
+ * @userbuf: if set, @buf is in a user address space
+ *
+ * This function copies one page from old kernel memory into buffer pointed by
+ * @buf. If @buf is in userspace, set @userbuf to %1. Returns number of bytes
+ * copied or negative error in case of failure.
+ */
+ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf,
+			 size_t csize, unsigned long offset,
+			 int userbuf)
+{
+	void *vaddr;
+
+	if (!csize)
+		return 0;
+
+	vaddr = memremap(__pfn_to_phys(pfn), PAGE_SIZE, MEMREMAP_WB);
+	if (!vaddr)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	if (userbuf) {
+		if (copy_to_user((char __user *)buf, vaddr + offset, csize)) {
+			memunmap(vaddr);
+			return -EFAULT;
+		}
+	} else {
+		memcpy(buf, vaddr + offset, csize);
+	}
+
+	memunmap(vaddr);
+
+	return csize;
+}
+
+/**
+ * elfcorehdr_read - read from ELF core header
+ * @buf: buffer where the data is placed
+ * @csize: number of bytes to read
+ * @ppos: address in the memory
+ *
+ * This function reads @count bytes from elf core header which exists
+ * on crash dump kernel's memory.
+ */
+ssize_t elfcorehdr_read(char *buf, size_t count, u64 *ppos)
+{
+	memcpy(buf, phys_to_virt((phys_addr_t)*ppos), count);
+	return count;
+}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index 89ba3cd0fe44..5960bef0170d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/kexec.h>
+#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
 
 #include <asm/boot.h>
 #include <asm/fixmap.h>
@@ -165,6 +166,56 @@ static void __init kexec_reserve_crashkres_pages(void)
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
+static int __init early_init_dt_scan_elfcorehdr(unsigned long node,
+		const char *uname, int depth, void *data)
+{
+	const __be32 *reg;
+	int len;
+
+	if (depth != 1 || strcmp(uname, "chosen") != 0)
+		return 0;
+
+	reg = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "linux,elfcorehdr", &len);
+	if (!reg || (len < (dt_root_addr_cells + dt_root_size_cells)))
+		return 1;
+
+	elfcorehdr_addr = dt_mem_next_cell(dt_root_addr_cells, &reg);
+	elfcorehdr_size = dt_mem_next_cell(dt_root_size_cells, &reg);
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
+/*
+ * reserve_elfcorehdr() - reserves memory for elf core header
+ *
+ * This function reserves the memory occupied by an elf core header
+ * described in the device tree. This region contains all the
+ * information about primary kernel's core image and is used by a dump
+ * capture kernel to access the system memory on primary kernel.
+ */
+static void __init reserve_elfcorehdr(void)
+{
+	of_scan_flat_dt(early_init_dt_scan_elfcorehdr, NULL);
+
+	if (!elfcorehdr_size)
+		return;
+
+	if (memblock_is_region_reserved(elfcorehdr_addr, elfcorehdr_size)) {
+		pr_warn("elfcorehdr is overlapped\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
+	memblock_reserve(elfcorehdr_addr, elfcorehdr_size);
+
+	pr_info("Reserving %lldKB of memory at 0x%llx for elfcorehdr\n",
+		elfcorehdr_size >> 10, elfcorehdr_addr);
+}
+#else
+static void __init reserve_elfcorehdr(void)
+{
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */
 /*
  * 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
@@ -423,6 +474,8 @@ void __init arm64_memblock_init(void)
 
 	reserve_crashkernel();
 
+	reserve_elfcorehdr();
+
 	dma_contiguous_reserve(arm64_dma_phys_limit);
 
 	memblock_allow_resize();
-- 
2.11.1




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