[PATCH v5 2/8] x86/crash hp: Introduce CRASH_HOTPLUG configuration options

[Eric DeVolder]

On 3/21/22 06:59, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 03/03/22 at 11:27am, Eric DeVolder wrote:
>> Support for CPU and memory hotplug for crash is controlled by the
>> CRASH_HOTPLUG configuration option, introduced by this patch.
>>
>> The CRASH_HOTPLUG_ELFCOREHDR_SZ related configuration option is
>> also introduced with this patch.
> 
> Maybe can rephrase it as:
> 
> x86/crash: Introduce new options to support cpu and memory hotplug of crash
>   
> CRASH_HOTPLUG is to enable cpu and memory hotplug of crash.
> 
> CRASH_HOTPLUG_ELFCOREHDR_SZ is used to Specify the maximum size of
> the elfcorehdr buffer/segment.
>   
> This is a preparation for later usage.
> 
> Otherwise, this looks good to me.
Commit message updated.
eric

> 
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder at oracle.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/x86/Kconfig | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> index 9f5bd41bf660..37eb26563f07 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> @@ -2061,6 +2061,32 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
>>   	  (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y).
>>   	  For more details see Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
>>   
>> +config CRASH_HOTPLUG
>> +	bool "kernel updates of crash elfcorehdr"
>> +	depends on CRASH_DUMP && (HOTPLUG_CPU || MEMORY_HOTPLUG) && KEXEC_FILE
>> +	help
>> +	  Enable the kernel to update the crash elfcorehdr (which contains
>> +	  the list of CPUs and memory regions) directly when hot plug/unplug
>> +	  of CPUs or memory. Otherwise userspace must monitor these hot
>> +	  plug/unplug change notifications via udev in order to
>> +	  unload-then-reload the crash kernel so that the list of CPUs and
>> +	  memory regions is kept up-to-date. Note that the udev CPU and
>> +	  memory change notifications still occur (however, userspace is not
>> +	  required to monitor for crash dump purposes).
>> +
>> +config CRASH_HOTPLUG_ELFCOREHDR_SZ
>> +	depends on CRASH_HOTPLUG
>> +	int
>> +	default 131072
>> +	help
>> +	  Specify the maximum size of the elfcorehdr buffer/segment.
>> +	  The 128KiB default is sized so that it can accommodate 2048
>> +	  Elf64_Phdr, where each Phdr represents either a CPU or a
>> +	  region of memory.
>> +	  For example, this size can accommodate a machine with up to 1024
>> +	  CPUs and up to 1024 memory regions, eg. as represented by the
>> +	  'System RAM' entries in /proc/iomem.
>> +
>>   config KEXEC_JUMP
>>   	bool "kexec jump"
>>   	depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION
>> -- 
>> 2.27.0
>>
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