[PATCH v14 08/11] arm64: kdump: reimplement crashkernel=X

Chen Zhou chenzhou10 at huawei.com
Sat Jan 30 02:10:22 EST 2021


There are following issues in arm64 kdump:
1. We use crashkernel=X to reserve crashkernel below 4G, which
will fail when there is no enough low memory.
2. If reserving crashkernel above 4G, in this case, crash dump
kernel will boot failure because there is no low memory available
for allocation.

To solve these issues, change the behavior of crashkernel=X and
introduce crashkernel=X,[high,low]. crashkernel=X tries low allocation
in DMA zone, and fall back to high allocation if it fails.
We can also use "crashkernel=X,high" to select a region above DMA zone,
which also tries to allocate at least 256M in DMA zone automatically.
"crashkernel=Y,low" can be used to allocate specified size low memory.

Another minor change, there may be two regions reserved for crash
dump kernel, in order to distinct from the high region and make no
effect to the use of existing kexec-tools, rename the low region as
"Crash kernel (low)".

Signed-off-by: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10 at huawei.com>
Tested-by: John Donnelly <John.p.donnelly at oracle.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h |  4 ++
 arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c      | 13 ++++++-
 arch/arm64/mm/init.c           | 68 ++++++----------------------------
 kernel/crash_core.c            |  6 +--
 4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
index 3f6ecae0bc68..f0caed0cb5e1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
@@ -96,6 +96,10 @@ static inline void crash_prepare_suspend(void) {}
 static inline void crash_post_resume(void) {}
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
+extern void __init reserve_crashkernel(void);
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE
 #define ARCH_HAS_KIMAGE_ARCH
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
index c18aacde8bb0..69c592c546de 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -238,7 +238,18 @@ static void __init request_standard_resources(void)
 		    kernel_data.end <= res->end)
 			request_resource(res, &kernel_data);
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
-		/* Userspace will find "Crash kernel" region in /proc/iomem. */
+		/*
+		 * Userspace will find "Crash kernel" or "Crash kernel (low)"
+		 * region in /proc/iomem.
+		 * In order to distinct from the high region and make no effect
+		 * to the use of existing kexec-tools, rename the low region as
+		 * "Crash kernel (low)".
+		 */
+		if (crashk_low_res.end && crashk_low_res.start >= res->start &&
+				crashk_low_res.end <= res->end) {
+			crashk_low_res.name = "Crash kernel (low)";
+			request_resource(res, &crashk_low_res);
+		}
 		if (crashk_res.end && crashk_res.start >= res->start &&
 		    crashk_res.end <= res->end)
 			request_resource(res, &crashk_res);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index 912f64f505f7..d20f5c444ebf 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include <asm/fixmap.h>
 #include <asm/kasan.h>
 #include <asm/kernel-pgtable.h>
+#include <asm/kexec.h>
 #include <asm/memory.h>
 #include <asm/numa.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>
@@ -61,66 +62,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(memstart_addr);
  */
 phys_addr_t arm64_dma_phys_limit __ro_after_init;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
-/*
- * 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.
- */
+#ifndef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
 static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
 {
-	unsigned long long crash_base, crash_size;
-	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;
-
-	crash_size = PAGE_ALIGN(crash_size);
-
-	if (crash_base == 0) {
-		/* Current arm64 boot protocol requires 2MB alignment */
-		crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN, CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX,
-				crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN);
-		if (crash_base == 0) {
-			pr_warn("cannot allocate crashkernel (size:0x%llx)\n",
-				crash_size);
-			return;
-		}
-	} else {
-		/* User specifies base address explicitly. */
-		if (!memblock_is_region_memory(crash_base, crash_size)) {
-			pr_warn("cannot reserve crashkernel: region is not memory\n");
-			return;
-		}
-
-		if (memblock_is_region_reserved(crash_base, crash_size)) {
-			pr_warn("cannot reserve crashkernel: region overlaps reserved memory\n");
-			return;
-		}
-
-		if (!IS_ALIGNED(crash_base, CRASH_ALIGN)) {
-			pr_warn("cannot reserve crashkernel: base address is not 2MB aligned\n");
-			return;
-		}
-	}
-	memblock_reserve(crash_base, crash_size);
-
-	pr_info("crashkernel reserved: 0x%016llx - 0x%016llx (%lld MB)\n",
-		crash_base, crash_base + crash_size, crash_size >> 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 */
+#endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
 static int __init early_init_dt_scan_elfcorehdr(unsigned long node,
@@ -446,6 +392,14 @@ void __init bootmem_init(void)
 	 * reserved, so do it here.
 	 */
 	reserve_crashkernel();
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
+	/*
+	 * The low region is intended to be used for crash dump kernel devices,
+	 * just mark the low region as "nomap" simply.
+	 */
+	if (crashk_low_res.end)
+		memblock_mark_nomap(crashk_low_res.start, resource_size(&crashk_low_res));
+#endif
 
 	memblock_dump_all();
 }
diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
index a0e790d6ea0f..8479be270c0b 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
@@ -322,10 +322,10 @@ int __init parse_crashkernel_low(char *cmdline,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86
+#if defined(CONFIG_X86) || defined(CONFIG_ARM64)
 static int __init reserve_crashkernel_low(void)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
 	unsigned long long base, low_base = 0, low_size = 0;
 	unsigned long low_mem_limit;
 	int ret;
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
 	crashk_res.start = crash_base;
 	crashk_res.end   = crash_base + crash_size - 1;
 }
-#endif /* CONFIG_X86 */
+#endif
 #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE */
 
 Elf_Word *append_elf_note(Elf_Word *buf, char *name, unsigned int type,
-- 
2.20.1




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