[PATCH v4 06/10] crash hp: generic crash hotplug support infrastructure

Eric DeVolder eric.devolder at oracle.com
Tue Mar 1 12:07:32 PST 2022



On 2/22/22 21:59, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 02/09/22 at 02:57pm, Eric DeVolder wrote:
>> This patch introduces a generic crash hot plug/unplug infrastructure
>> for CPU and memory changes. Upon CPU and memory changes, a generic
>> crash_hotplug_handler() obtains the appropriate lock, does some
>> important house keeping and then dispatches the hot plug/unplug event
>> to the architecture specific arch_crash_hotplug_handler(), and when
>> that handler returns, the lock is released.
>>
>> This patch modifies crash_core.c to implement a subsys_initcall()
>> function that installs handlers for hot plug/unplug events. If CPU
>> hotplug is enabled, then cpuhp_setup_state() is invoked to register a
>> handler for CPU changes. Similarly, if memory hotplug is enabled, then
>> register_memory_notifier() is invoked to install a handler for memory
>> changes. These handlers in turn invoke the common generic handler
>> crash_hotplug_handler().
>>
>> On the CPU side, cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls() is invoked with parameter
>> CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN. While this works, when a CPU is being unplugged,
>> the CPU still shows up in foreach_present_cpu() during the regeneration
>> of the new CPU list, thus the need to explicitly check and exclude the
>> soon-to-be offlined CPU in crash_prepare_elf64_headers().
>>
>> On the memory side, each un/plugged memory block passes through the
>> handler. For example, if a 1GiB DIMM is hotplugged, that generate 8
>> memory events, one for each 128MiB memblock.
> 
> This looks good to me. As I commented in patch 3, these both may need be
> merged.
OK, merged with 3.
eric

> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder at oracle.com>
>> ---
>>   kernel/crash_core.c | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 104 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
>> index 0ff06d0698ad..524470e18883 100644
>> --- a/kernel/crash_core.c
>> +++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
>> @@ -10,12 +10,16 @@
>>   #include <linux/utsname.h>
>>   #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>>   #include <linux/highmem.h>
>> +#include <linux/memory.h>
>> +#include <linux/cpuhotplug.h>
>>   
>>   #include <asm/page.h>
>>   #include <asm/sections.h>
>>   
>>   #include <crypto/sha1.h>
>>   
>> +#include "kexec_internal.h"
>> +
>>   /* vmcoreinfo stuff */
>>   unsigned char *vmcoreinfo_data;
>>   size_t vmcoreinfo_size;
>> @@ -521,5 +525,105 @@ void unmap_crash_pages(void **ptr)
>>   		*ptr = NULL;
>>   	}
>>   }
>> +
>> +void __weak arch_crash_hotplug_handler(struct kimage *image,
>> +	unsigned int hp_action, unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
>> +{
>> +	pr_warn("crash hp: %s not implemented", __func__);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void crash_hotplug_handler(unsigned int hp_action,
>> +	unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
>> +{
>> +	/* Obtain lock while changing crash information */
>> +	if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex))
>> +		return;
>> +
>> +	/* Check kdump is loaded */
>> +	if (kexec_crash_image) {
>> +		pr_debug("crash hp: hp_action %u, a %lu, b %lu", hp_action,
>> +			a, b);
>> +
>> +		/* Needed in order for the segments to be updated */
>> +		arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres();
>> +
>> +		/* Flag to differentiate between normal load and hotplug */
>> +		kexec_crash_image->hotplug_event = true;
>> +
>> +		/* Now invoke arch-specific update handler */
>> +		arch_crash_hotplug_handler(kexec_crash_image, hp_action, a, b);
>> +
>> +		/* No longer handling a hotplug event */
>> +		kexec_crash_image->hotplug_event = false;
>> +
>> +		/* Change back to read-only */
>> +		arch_kexec_protect_crashkres();
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	/* Release lock now that update complete */
>> +	mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
>> +}
>> +
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG)
>> +static int crash_memhp_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
>> +	unsigned long val, void *v)
>> +{
>> +	struct memory_notify *mhp = v;
>> +	unsigned long start, end;
>> +
>> +	start = mhp->start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
>> +	end = ((mhp->start_pfn + mhp->nr_pages) << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1;
>> +
>> +	switch (val) {
>> +	case MEM_ONLINE:
>> +		crash_hotplug_handler(KEXEC_CRASH_HP_ADD_MEMORY,
>> +			start, end-start);
>> +		break;
>> +
>> +	case MEM_OFFLINE:
>> +		crash_hotplug_handler(KEXEC_CRASH_HP_REMOVE_MEMORY,
>> +			start, end-start);
>> +		break;
>> +	}
>> +	return NOTIFY_OK;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static struct notifier_block crash_memhp_nb = {
>> +	.notifier_call = crash_memhp_notifier,
>> +	.priority = 0
>> +};
>>   #endif
>>   
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU)
>> +static int crash_cpuhp_online(unsigned int cpu)
>> +{
>> +	crash_hotplug_handler(KEXEC_CRASH_HP_ADD_CPU, cpu, 0);
>> +	return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static int crash_cpuhp_offline(unsigned int cpu)
>> +{
>> +	crash_hotplug_handler(KEXEC_CRASH_HP_REMOVE_CPU, cpu, 0);
>> +	return 0;
>> +}
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +static int __init crash_hotplug_init(void)
>> +{
>> +	int result = 0;
>> +
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG)
>> +	register_memory_notifier(&crash_memhp_nb);
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU)
>> +	result = cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN,
>> +				"crash/cpuhp",
>> +				crash_cpuhp_online, crash_cpuhp_offline);
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +	return result;
>> +}
>> +
>> +subsys_initcall(crash_hotplug_init);
>> +#endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG */
>> -- 
>> 2.27.0
>>
> 



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