[PATCH v12 5/6] powerpc: add crash CPU hotplug support
Sourabh Jain
sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com
Sun Oct 29 05:40:38 PDT 2023
Due to CPU/Memory hotplug or online/offline events the elfcorehdr
(which describes the CPUs and memory of the crashed kernel) and FDT
(Flattened Device Tree) of kdump image becomes outdated. Consequently,
attempting dump collection with an outdated elfcorehdr or FDT can lead
to failed or inaccurate dump collection.
Going forward CPU hotplug or online/offlice events are referred as
CPU/Memory add/remvoe events.
The current solution to address the above issue involves monitoring the
CPU/memory add/remove events in userspace using udev rules and whenever
there are changes in CPU and memory resources, the entire kdump image
is loaded again. The kdump image includes kernel, initrd, elfcorehdr,
FDT, purgatory. Given that only elfcorehdr and FDT get outdated due to
CPU/Memory add/remove events, reloading the entire kdump image is
inefficient. More importantly, kdump remains inactive for a substantial
amount of time until the kdump reload completes.
To address the aforementioned issue, commit 247262756121 ("crash: add
generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support") added a generic
infrastructure that allows architectures to selectively update the kdump
image component during CPU or memory add/remove events within the kernel
itself.
In the event of a CPU or memory add/remove event, the generic crash
hotplug event handler, `crash_handle_hotplug_event()`, is triggered. It
then acquires the necessary locks to update the kdump image and invokes
the architecture-specific crash hotplug handler,
`arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event()`, to update the required kdump image
components.
This patch adds crash hotplug handler for PowerPC and enable support to
update the kdump image on CPU add/remove events. Support for memory
add/remove events is added in a subsequent patch with the title
"powerpc: add crash memory hotplug support."
As mentioned earlier, only the elfcorehdr and FDT kdump image components
need to be updated in the event of CPU or memory add/remove events.
However, the PowerPC architecture crash hotplug handler only updates the
FDT to enable crash hotplug support for CPU add/remove events. Here's
why.
The Elfcorehdr on PowerPC is built with possible CPUs, and thus, it does
not need an update on CPU add/remove events. On the other hand, the FDT
needs to be updated on CPU add events to include the newly added CPU. If
the FDT is not updated and the kernel crashes on a newly added CPU, the
kdump kernel will fail to boot due to the unavailability of the crashing
CPU in the FDT. During the early boot, it is expected that the boot CPU
must be a part of the FDT; otherwise, the kernel will raise a BUG and
fail to boot. For more information, refer to commit 36ae37e3436b0
("powerpc: Make boot_cpuid common between 32 and 64-bit"). Since it is
okay to have an offline CPU in the kdump FDT, no action is taken in case
of CPU removal.
There are two system calls, `kexec_file_load` and `kexec_load`, used to
load the kdump image. Few changes have been made to ensure kernel can
safely update the kdump FDT for both system calls.
For kexec_file_load syscall the kdump image is prepared in kernel. So to
support an increasing number of CPUs, the FDT is constructed with extra
buffer space to ensure it can accommodate a possible number of CPU
nodes. Additionally, a call to fdt_pack (which trims the unused space
once the FDT is prepared) is avoided for kdump image loading if this
feature is enabled.
For the kexec_load syscall, the FDT is updated only if both the
KEXEC_UPDATE_FDT and KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR kexec flags are passed to
the kernel by the kexec tool. Passing these flags to the kernel
indicates that the FDT is built to accommodate possible CPUs, and the
FDT segment is not considered for SHA calculation, making it safe to
update the FDT.
Commit 88a6f8994421 ("crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes")
added a sysfs interface to indicate userspace (kdump udev rule) that
kernel will update the kdump image on CPU hotplug events, so kdump
reload can be avoided. Implement arch specific function
`arch_crash_hotplug_cpu_support()` to correctly advertise kernel
capability to update kdump image.
This feature is advertised to userspace when the following conditions
are met:
1. Kdump image is loaded using kexec_file_load system call.
2. Kdump image is loaded using kexec_load system and both
KEXEC_UPATE_ELFCOREHDR and KEXEC_UPDATE_FDT kexec flags are
passed to kernel.
The changes related to this feature are kept under the CRASH_HOTPLUG
config, and it is enabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Akhil Raj <lf32.dev at gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp at alien8.de>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky at oracle.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
Cc: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder at oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Laurent Dufour <laurent.dufour at fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador at suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid at redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
Cc: x86 at kernel.org
---
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 4 ++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h | 11 ++++
arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c | 12 +++-
arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c | 14 +++++
5 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index d5d5388973ac..686818ce4663 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -680,6 +680,10 @@ config RELOCATABLE_TEST
config ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_DUMP
def_bool PPC64 || PPC_BOOK3S_32 || PPC_85xx || (44x && !SMP)
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_HOTPLUG
+ def_bool y
+ depends on PPC64
+
config ARCH_SELECTS_CRASH_DUMP
def_bool y
depends on CRASH_DUMP
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
index 2b9f2dbe67fe..53a4aa0b6b04 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
@@ -103,6 +103,17 @@ 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);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
+void arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event(struct kimage *image, void *arg);
+#define arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+int arch_crash_hotplug_cpu_support(struct kimage *image);
+#define arch_crash_hotplug_cpu_support arch_crash_hotplug_cpu_support
+#endif
+
+#endif /*CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG */
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC64 */
#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 0b292f93a74c..a8e845fb3eaa 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c
@@ -543,6 +543,97 @@ int update_cpus_node(void *fdt)
return ret;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
+#undef pr_fmt
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) "crash hp: " fmt
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+ /* Provides the value for the sysfs crash_hotplug nodes */
+int arch_crash_hotplug_cpu_support(struct kimage *image)
+{
+ if (image->file_mode)
+ return 1;
+
+ /*
+ * Crash CPU hotplug support is not available for kdump image loaded
+ * using the kexec_load system and the required attributes are not set.
+ */
+ return image->update_elfcorehdr && image->update_fdt;
+}
+#endif
+
+/**
+ * arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event - Handle crash CPU/Memory hotplug events to update the
+ * necessary kexec segments based on the hotplug event.
+ * @image: a pointer to kexec_crash_image
+ * @arg: struct memory_notify handler for memory hotplug case and NULL for CPU hotplug case.
+ *
+ * Update the kdump image based on the type of hotplug event, represented by image->hp_action.
+ * CPU addition: Update the FDT segment to include the newly added CPU.
+ * CPU removal: No action is needed, with the assumption that it's okay to have offline CPUs
+ * as part of the FDT.
+ * Memory addition/removal: No action is taken as this is not yet supported.
+ */
+void arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event(struct kimage *image, void *arg)
+{
+ unsigned int hp_action = image->hp_action;
+
+ /*
+ * Check if it is safe to update the FDT for the kexec_load syscall.
+ * There's no need to check for the elfcorehdr; the generic crash
+ * hotplug handler does that before calling this function.
+ */
+ if (!(image->file_mode || image->update_fdt))
+ return;
+ /*
+ * 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;
+
+ } else if (hp_action == KEXEC_CRASH_HP_ADD_CPU) {
+
+ void *fdt, *ptr;
+ unsigned long mem;
+ int i, fdt_index = -1;
+
+ /* 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);
+
+ } else 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;
+ }
+}
+#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 eeb258002d1e..b072f589b142 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);
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLG
+ /*
+ * Do not pack FDT, additional space is reserved to accommodate
+ * possible CPU nodes which are not yet present in the system yet.
+ */
+ 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 1e2cc5b7062c..c8eec15b38ff 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c
@@ -909,6 +909,9 @@ unsigned int kexec_extra_fdt_size_ppc64(struct kimage *image)
unsigned int cpu_nodes, extra_size = 0;
struct device_node *dn;
u64 usm_entries;
+#ifdef 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
@@ -941,6 +944,17 @@ 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();
+#ifdef 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;
}
--
2.41.0
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