[PATCH v20 3/5] arm64: kdump: reimplement crashkernel=X
john.p.donnelly at oracle.com
john.p.donnelly at oracle.com
Wed Jan 26 07:18:18 PST 2022
On 1/24/22 2:47 AM, Zhen Lei wrote:
> From: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10 at huawei.com>
>
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10 at huawei.com>
> Co-developed-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen at huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen at huawei.com>
Acked-by: John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly at oracle.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 9 +++-
> arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 12 ++++-
> arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 3 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> index e16b248699d5c3c..19c2d487cb08feb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> @@ -329,8 +329,13 @@ bool crash_is_nosave(unsigned long pfn)
>
> /* in reserved memory? */
> addr = __pfn_to_phys(pfn);
> - if ((addr < crashk_res.start) || (crashk_res.end < addr))
> - return false;
> + if ((addr < crashk_res.start) || (crashk_res.end < addr)) {
> + if (!crashk_low_res.end)
> + return false;
> +
> + if ((addr < crashk_low_res.start) || (crashk_low_res.end < addr))
> + return false;
> + }
>
> if (!kexec_crash_image)
> return true;
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> index 59c648d51848886..889951291cc0f9c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> @@ -65,10 +65,18 @@ static int prepare_elf_headers(void **addr, unsigned long *sz)
>
> /* Exclude crashkernel region */
> ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end);
> + if (ret)
> + goto out;
> +
> + if (crashk_low_res.end) {
> + ret = crash_exclude_mem_range(cmem, crashk_low_res.start, crashk_low_res.end);
> + if (ret)
> + goto out;
> + }
>
> - if (!ret)
> - ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
> + ret = crash_prepare_elf64_headers(cmem, true, addr, sz);
>
> +out:
> kfree(cmem);
> return ret;
> }
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index 6c653a2c7cff052..a5d43feac0d7d96 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -71,6 +71,30 @@ phys_addr_t arm64_dma_phys_limit __ro_after_init;
> #define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX arm64_dma_phys_limit
> #define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE
>
> +static int __init reserve_crashkernel_low(unsigned long long low_size)
> +{
> + unsigned long long low_base;
> +
> + /* passed with crashkernel=0,low ? */
> + if (!low_size)
> + return 0;
> +
> + low_base = memblock_phys_alloc_range(low_size, CRASH_ALIGN, 0, CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX);
> + if (!low_base) {
> + pr_err("cannot allocate crashkernel low memory (size:0x%llx).\n", low_size);
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> +
> + pr_info("crashkernel low memory reserved: 0x%llx - 0x%llx (%lld MB)\n",
> + low_base, low_base + low_size, low_size >> 20);
> +
> + crashk_low_res.start = low_base;
> + crashk_low_res.end = low_base + low_size - 1;
> + insert_resource(&iomem_resource, &crashk_low_res);
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * reserve_crashkernel() - reserves memory for crash kernel
> *
> @@ -81,29 +105,62 @@ phys_addr_t arm64_dma_phys_limit __ro_after_init;
> static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
> {
> unsigned long long crash_base, crash_size;
> + unsigned long long crash_low_size = SZ_256M;
> unsigned long long crash_max = CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX;
> int ret;
> + bool fixed_base;
> + char *cmdline = boot_command_line;
>
> - ret = parse_crashkernel(boot_command_line, memblock_phys_mem_size(),
> + /* crashkernel=X[@offset] */
> + ret = parse_crashkernel(cmdline, memblock_phys_mem_size(),
> &crash_size, &crash_base);
> - /* no crashkernel= or invalid value specified */
> - if (ret || !crash_size)
> - return;
> + if (ret || !crash_size) {
> + unsigned long long low_size;
>
> + /* crashkernel=X,high */
> + ret = parse_crashkernel_high(cmdline, 0, &crash_size, &crash_base);
> + if (ret || !crash_size)
> + return;
> +
> + /* crashkernel=X,low */
> + ret = parse_crashkernel_low(cmdline, 0, &low_size, &crash_base);
> + if (!ret)
> + crash_low_size = low_size;
> +
> + crash_max = CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX;
> + }
> +
> + fixed_base = !!crash_base;
> crash_size = PAGE_ALIGN(crash_size);
>
> /* User specifies base address explicitly. */
> if (crash_base)
> crash_max = crash_base + crash_size;
>
> +retry:
> crash_base = memblock_phys_alloc_range(crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN,
> crash_base, crash_max);
> if (!crash_base) {
> + /*
> + * Attempt to fully allocate low memory failed, fall back
> + * to high memory, the minimum required low memory will be
> + * reserved later.
> + */
> + if (!fixed_base && (crash_max == CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX)) {
> + crash_max = CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX;
> + goto retry;
> + }
> +
> pr_warn("cannot allocate crashkernel (size:0x%llx)\n",
> crash_size);
> return;
> }
>
> + if (crash_base >= SZ_4G && reserve_crashkernel_low(crash_low_size)) {
> + memblock_phys_free(crash_base, crash_size);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> pr_info("crashkernel reserved: 0x%016llx - 0x%016llx (%lld MB)\n",
> crash_base, crash_base + crash_size, crash_size >> 20);
>
> @@ -112,6 +169,9 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
> * map. Inform kmemleak so that it won't try to access it.
> */
> kmemleak_ignore_phys(crash_base);
> + if (crashk_low_res.end)
> + kmemleak_ignore_phys(crashk_low_res.start);
> +
> crashk_res.start = crash_base;
> crashk_res.end = crash_base + crash_size - 1;
> insert_resource(&iomem_resource, &crashk_res);
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