[PATCH v10 3/5] powerpc/crash: add crash CPU hotplug support

[Laurent Dufour]

On 23/04/2023 12:52:11, Sourabh Jain wrote:
> Introduce powerpc crash hotplug handler to update the necessary kexec
> segments in the kernel on CPU/Memory hotplug events. Currently, these
> updates are done by monitoring CPU/Memory hotplug events in userspace.
> 
> A common crash hotplug handler is triggered from generic infrastructure
> for both CPU/Memory hotplug events. But in this patch, crash updates are
> handled only for CPU hotplug events. Support for the crash update on
> memory hotplug events is added in upcoming patches.
> 
> The elfcorehdr segment is used to exchange the CPU and other
> dump-related information between the kernels. Ideally, the elfcorehdr
> segment needs to be recreated on CPU hotplug events to reflect the
> changes. But on powerpc, the elfcorehdr is built with possible CPUs
> hence there is no need to update/recreate the elfcorehdr on CPU hotplug
> events.
> 
> In addition to elfcorehdr, there is another kexec segment that holds CPU
> data on powerpc is FDT (Flattened Device Tree). During the kdump kernel
> boot, it is expected that the crashing CPU must be present in FDT, else
> kdump kernel boot fails.
> 
> Now the only action needed on powerpc to handle the crash CPU hotplug
> event is to add hot added CPUs in the kdump FDT segment to avoid kdump
> kernel boot failure. So for the CPU hot add event, the FDT segment is
> updated with hot added CPU and Since there is no need to remove the hot
> unplugged CPUs from the FDT segment hence no action was taken for CPU
> hot remove event.
> 
> To accommodate a growing number of CPUs, FDT is built with additional
> buffer space to ensure that it can hold possible CPU nodes.
> 
> The changes done here will also work for the kexec_load system call
> given that the kexec tool builds the FDT segment with additional space
> to accommodate possible CPU nodes.
> 
> Since memory crash hotplug support is not there yet the crash hotplug
> the handler simply warns the user and returns.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <laurent.dufour at fr.ibm.com
I don't remember sending a review-by on this patch earlier, do you?

> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h  |  4 ++
>  arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c      | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c       | 12 +++++-
>  arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c | 14 +++++++
>  4 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
> index 8090ad7d97d9d..f01ba767af56e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
> @@ -103,6 +103,10 @@ void kexec_copy_flush(struct kimage *image);
>  struct crash_mem;
>  int update_cpus_node(void *fdt);
>  int get_crash_memory_ranges(struct crash_mem **mem_ranges);
> +#if defined(CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG)
> +void arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event(struct kimage *image);
> +#define arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event
> +#endif
>  #endif
>  
>  #if defined(CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP) && defined(CONFIG_PPC_RTAS)
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c
> index 0b292f93a74cc..611b89bcea2be 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c
> @@ -543,6 +543,67 @@ int update_cpus_node(void *fdt)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> +#if defined(CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG)
> +#undef pr_fmt
> +#define pr_fmt(fmt) "crash hp: " fmt
> +
> +/**
> + * arch_crash_hotplug_handler() - Handle crash CPU/Memory hotplug events to update the
> + *                                necessary kexec segments based on the hotplug event.
> + * @image: the active struct kimage
> + *
> + * Update FDT segment to include newly added CPU. No action for CPU remove case.
> + */
> +void arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event(struct kimage *image)
> +{
> +	void *fdt, *ptr;
> +	unsigned long mem;
> +	int i, fdt_index = -1;
> +	unsigned int hp_action = image->hp_action;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Since the hot-unplugged CPU is already part of crash FDT,
> +	 * no action is needed for CPU remove case.
> +	 */
> +	if (hp_action == KEXEC_CRASH_HP_REMOVE_CPU)
> +		return;
> +
> +	/* crash update on memory hotplug events is not supported yet */
> +	if (hp_action == KEXEC_CRASH_HP_REMOVE_MEMORY || hp_action == KEXEC_CRASH_HP_ADD_MEMORY) {
> +		pr_info_once("Crash update is not supported for memory hotplug\n");
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* Find the FDT segment index in kexec segment array. */
> +	for (i = 0; i < image->nr_segments; i++) {
> +		mem = image->segment[i].mem;
> +		ptr = __va(mem);
> +
> +		if (ptr && fdt_magic(ptr) == FDT_MAGIC) {
> +			fdt_index = i;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	if (fdt_index < 0) {
> +		pr_err("Unable to locate FDT segment.\n");
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	fdt = __va((void *)image->segment[fdt_index].mem);
> +
> +	/* Temporarily invalidate the crash image while it is replaced */
> +	xchg(&kexec_crash_image, NULL);
> +
> +	/* update FDT to refelect changes in CPU resrouces */
> +	if (update_cpus_node(fdt))
> +		pr_err("Failed to update crash FDT");
> +
> +	/* The crash image is now valid once again */
> +	xchg(&kexec_crash_image, image);
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_64S_HASH_MMU
>  /* Values we need to export to the second kernel via the device tree. */
>  static unsigned long htab_base;
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c
> index eeb258002d1e0..d8f6d967231e8 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ static void *elf64_load(struct kimage *image, char *kernel_buf,
>  			unsigned long cmdline_len)
>  {
>  	int ret;
> +	bool do_pack_fdt = true;
>  	unsigned long kernel_load_addr;
>  	unsigned long initrd_load_addr = 0, fdt_load_addr;
>  	void *fdt;
> @@ -116,7 +117,16 @@ static void *elf64_load(struct kimage *image, char *kernel_buf,
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto out_free_fdt;
>  
> -	fdt_pack(fdt);
> +#if defined(CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG)
> +	/*
> +	 * Do not pack FDT, additional space is reserved to accommodate
> +	 * possible CPU nodes which are not yet present in the system.
> +	 */
> +	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH)
> +		do_pack_fdt = false;
> +#endif
> +	if (do_pack_fdt)
> +		fdt_pack(fdt);
>  
>  	kbuf.buffer = fdt;
>  	kbuf.bufsz = kbuf.memsz = fdt_totalsize(fdt);
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c
> index 5b0b3f61e0e72..3554168687869 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c
> @@ -908,6 +908,9 @@ unsigned int kexec_extra_fdt_size_ppc64(struct kimage *image)
>  	unsigned int cpu_nodes, extra_size = 0;
>  	struct device_node *dn;
>  	u64 usm_entries;
> +#if defined(CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG)
> +	unsigned int possible_cpu_nodes;
> +#endif
>  
>  	// Budget some space for the password blob. There's already extra space
>  	// for the key name
> @@ -940,6 +943,17 @@ unsigned int kexec_extra_fdt_size_ppc64(struct kimage *image)
>  	if (cpu_nodes > boot_cpu_node_count)
>  		extra_size += (cpu_nodes - boot_cpu_node_count) * cpu_node_size();
>  
> +#if defined(CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG)
> +	/*
> +	 * Make sure enough space is reserved to accommodate possible CPU nodes
> +	 * in the crash FDT. This allows packing possible CPU nodes which are
> +	 * not yet present in the system without regenerating the entire FDT.
> +	 */
> +	possible_cpu_nodes = num_possible_cpus() / threads_per_core;
> +	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH && possible_cpu_nodes > cpu_nodes)
> +		extra_size += (possible_cpu_nodes - cpu_nodes) * cpu_node_size();
> +#endif
> +
>  	return extra_size;
>  }
>