[RFC v3 PATCH 5/5] powerpc/crash hp: add crash hotplug support for kexec_load
Eric DeVolder
eric.devolder at oracle.com
Wed Mar 23 11:33:04 PDT 2022
Some minor nits below.
eric
On 3/21/22 03:04, Sourabh Jain wrote:
> The kernel changes needed to add support for crash hotplug support for
> kexec_load system calls are similar to kexec_file_load (which has already
> been implemented in earlier patches). Since kexec segment array is
> prepared by kexec tool in the userspace, the kernel does aware of which
s/kernel does aware/ kernel is not aware/ ?
> index FDT segment is present.
>
> The only change was done to enabled crash hotplug support for kexec_load is
s/was done to enabled/to enable/ ?
> updated the crash hotplug handler to identify the FDT segment from kexec
s/updated/ to update/ ?
> segment array.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c
> index a470fe6904e3..2c248dfb169b 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c
> @@ -480,7 +480,9 @@ int update_cpus_node(void *fdt)
> void arch_crash_hotplug_handler(struct kimage *image, unsigned int hp_action,
> unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
> {
> - void *fdt;
> + void *fdt, *ptr;
> + unsigned int n;
> + unsigned long mem, memsz;
>
> /* No action needed for CPU hot-unplug */
> if (hp_action == KEXEC_CRASH_HP_REMOVE_CPU)
> @@ -492,6 +494,23 @@ void arch_crash_hotplug_handler(struct kimage *image, unsigned int hp_action,
> return;
> }
>
> + /* Sine kexec segments for kexec_load system call is prepred by
s/Sine/Since/
s/is prepred/are prepared/
> + * kexec tool in userspace we need loop through all the segments
> + * to find out segment index corresponds FDT segment. In case of
> + * kexec_file_load it is discovered during the load itself.
> + */
> + if (!image->arch.fdt_index_valid) {
> + for (n = 0; n < image->nr_segments; n++) {
> + mem = image->segment[n].mem;
> + memsz = image->segment[n].memsz;
> + ptr = __va(mem);
> + if (ptr && fdt_magic(ptr) == FDT_MAGIC) {
> + image->arch.fdt_index = n;
> + image->arch.fdt_index_valid = true;
How about adding a break; statement to early exit?
> + }
> + }
> + }
> +
> /* Must have valid FDT index */
> if (!image->arch.fdt_index_valid) {
> pr_err("crash hp: unable to locate FDT segment");
>
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