[PATCH v4 1/1] kernel/crash_core: Add crashkernel=auto for vmcore creation

[Kairui Song]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 1:45 AM Saeed Mirzamohammadi
<saeed.mirzamohammadi at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> This adds crashkernel=auto feature to configure reserved memory for
> vmcore creation. CONFIG_CRASH_AUTO_STR is defined to be set for
> different kernel distributions and different archs based on their
> needs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mirzamohammadi <saeed.mirzamohammadi at oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly at oracle.com>
> Tested-by: John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly at oracle.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst     |  3 ++-
>  .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         |  6 ++++++
>  arch/Kconfig                                  | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/crash_core.c                           |  7 +++++++
>  4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
> index 75a9dd98e76e..ae030111e22a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
> @@ -285,7 +285,8 @@ This would mean:
>      2) if the RAM size is between 512M and 2G (exclusive), then reserve 64M
>      3) if the RAM size is larger than 2G, then reserve 128M
>
> -
> +Or you can use crashkernel=auto to choose the crash kernel memory size
> +based on the recommended configuration set for each arch.
>
>  Boot into System Kernel
>  =======================
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 9e3cdb271d06..a5deda5c85fe 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -747,6 +747,12 @@
>                         a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
>                         Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
>
> +       crashkernel=auto
> +                       [KNL] This parameter will set the reserved memory for
> +                       the crash kernel based on the value of the CRASH_AUTO_STR
> +                       that is the best effort estimation for each arch. See also
> +                       arch/Kconfig for further details.
> +
>         crashkernel=size[KMG],high
>                         [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
>                         to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
> diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
> index 24862d15f3a3..23d047548772 100644
> --- a/arch/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> @@ -14,6 +14,26 @@ menu "General architecture-dependent options"
>  config CRASH_CORE
>         bool
>
> +config CRASH_AUTO_STR
> +       string "Memory reserved for crash kernel"
> +       depends on CRASH_CORE
> +       default "1G-64G:128M,64G-1T:256M,1T-:512M"
> +       help
> +         This configures the reserved memory dependent
> +         on the value of System RAM. The syntax is:
> +         crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...][@offset]
> +                     range=start-[end]
> +
> +         For example:
> +             crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
> +
> +         This would mean:
> +
> +             1) if the RAM is smaller than 512M, then don't reserve anything
> +                (this is the "rescue" case)
> +             2) if the RAM size is between 512M and 2G (exclusive), then reserve 64M
> +             3) if the RAM size is larger than 2G, then reserve 128M
> +
>  config KEXEC_CORE
>         select CRASH_CORE
>         bool
> diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
> index 825284baaf46..90f9e4bb6704 100644
> --- a/kernel/crash_core.c
> +++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
>  #include <linux/crash_core.h>
>  #include <linux/utsname.h>
>  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> +#include <linux/kexec.h>
>
>  #include <asm/page.h>
>  #include <asm/sections.h>
> @@ -250,6 +251,12 @@ static int __init __parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline,
>         if (suffix)
>                 return parse_crashkernel_suffix(ck_cmdline, crash_size,
>                                 suffix);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_AUTO_STR
> +       if (strncmp(ck_cmdline, "auto", 4) == 0) {
> +               ck_cmdline = CONFIG_CRASH_AUTO_STR;
> +               pr_info("Using crashkernel=auto, the size chosen is a best effort estimation.\n");
> +       }
> +#endif
>         /*
>          * if the commandline contains a ':', then that's the extended
>          * syntax -- if not, it must be the classic syntax
> --
> 2.27.0
>
>
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Thanks for help pushing the crashkernel=auto to upstream
This patch works well.

Tested-by: Kairui Song <kasong at redhat.com>


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Best Regards,
Kairui Song