[PATCH v1 3/3] crashdump/x86: increase CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES to 32k
David Hildenbrand
david at redhat.com
Tue Mar 23 10:01:10 GMT 2021
virtio-mem in Linux adds/removes individual memory blocks (e.g., 128 MB
each). Linux merges adjacent memory blocks added by virtio-mem devices, but
we can still end up with a very sparse memory layout when unplugging
memory in corner cases.
Let's increase the maximum number of crash memory ranges from ~2k to 32k.
32k should be sufficient for a very long time.
e_phnum field in the header is 16 bits wide, so we can fit a maximum of
~64k entries in there, shared with other entries (i.e., CPU). Therefore,
using up to 32k memory ranges is fine. (if we ever need more than ~64k,
we can switch to the sh_info field)
Move the temporary xen ranges off the stack, dynamically allocating
memory for them.
Note: We don't have to increase MAX_MEMORY_RANGES, because virtio-mem
added memory is driver managed and always detected and added by a
driver in the kexec'ed kernel; for ordinary kexec, we must not expose
these ranges in the firmware-provided memmap.
Cc: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
---
kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c | 6 ++++--
kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.h | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c b/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
index 43e830a..df84185 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
@@ -355,8 +355,8 @@ static int get_crash_memory_ranges(struct memory_range **range, int *ranges,
static int get_crash_memory_ranges_xen(struct memory_range **range,
int *ranges, unsigned long lowmem_limit)
{
+ struct e820entry *e820entries;
int j, rc, ret = -1;
- struct e820entry e820entries[CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES];
unsigned int i;
xc_interface *xc;
@@ -367,6 +367,8 @@ static int get_crash_memory_ranges_xen(struct memory_range **range,
return -1;
}
+ e820entries = xmalloc(sizeof(*e820entries) * CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES);
+
rc = xc_get_machine_memory_map(xc, e820entries, CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES);
if (rc < 0) {
@@ -395,7 +397,7 @@ static int get_crash_memory_ranges_xen(struct memory_range **range,
err:
xc_interface_close(xc);
-
+ free(e820entries);
return ret;
}
#else
diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.h b/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.h
index e4fdc82..479a549 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.h
+++ b/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.h
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ int load_crashdump_segments(struct kexec_info *info, char *mod_cmdline,
#define X86_64_KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE (512UL*1024*1024)
#define CRASH_MAX_MEMMAP_NR 1024
-#define CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES (MAX_MEMORY_RANGES + 2)
+
+#define CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES 32768
/* Backup Region, First 640K of System RAM. */
#define BACKUP_SRC_START 0x00000000
--
2.29.2
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