[PATCH v2] crash: Fix x86_32 and arm32 memory reserve bug
Jinjie Ruan
ruanjinjie at huawei.com
Mon Jul 15 20:52:00 PDT 2024
On 2024/7/15 22:48, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 07/13/24 at 09:48am, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
>> On x86_32 Qemu machine with 1GB memory, the cmdline "crashkernel=4G" is ok
>> as below:
>> crashkernel reserved: 0x0000000020000000 - 0x0000000120000000 (4096 MB)
>>
>> And on Qemu vexpress-a9 with 1GB memory, the crash kernel "crashkernel=4G"
>> is also ok as below:
>> Reserving 4096MB of memory at 2432MB for crashkernel (System RAM: 1024MB)
>>
>> The cause is that the crash_size is parsed and printed with "unsigned long
>> long" data type which is 8 bytes but allocated used with "phys_addr_t"
>> which is 4 bytes in memblock_phys_alloc_range().
>>
>> Fix it by limiting the "crash_size" to phys_addr_t and bypass the invalid
>> input size.
>
> I am not sure if this is a good idea. Shouldn't we handle this in
> arch_reserve_crashkernel() to check the system RAM size?
>
> With this patch, if you specify crashkernel=4352M (namely 4G+256M) in
> kernel cmdline, then you will reserve 256M crashkernel in system, don't
> you think that is confusing?
>
> By the way, I am considering changing code to apply generic crashkernel
> reservation to 32bit system. Maybe below draft code can prevent
> crashkernel=,high from being parsed successfully on 32bit system.
>
> What do you think?
I'll test the below patch on ARM32 an x86_32 sooner.
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/crash_reserve.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/crash_reserve.h
> index 4afe027a4e7b..bf362c1a612f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/crash_reserve.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/crash_reserve.h
> @@ -7,4 +7,6 @@
>
> #define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX arm64_dma_phys_limit
> #define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX (PHYS_MASK + 1)
> +
> +#define HAVE_ARCH_CRASHKERNEL_RESERVATION_HIGH
> #endif
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/crash_reserve.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/crash_reserve.h
> index 013962e63587..8d7a8fc1d459 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/crash_reserve.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/crash_reserve.h
> @@ -7,5 +7,7 @@
> #define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX dma32_phys_limit
> #define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX memblock_end_of_DRAM()
>
> +#define HAVE_ARCH_CRASHKERNEL_RESERVATION_HIGH
> +
> extern phys_addr_t memblock_end_of_DRAM(void);
> #endif
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/crash_reserve.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/crash_reserve.h
> index 7835b2cdff04..24c2327f9a16 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/crash_reserve.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/crash_reserve.h
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ extern unsigned long swiotlb_size_or_default(void);
> #else
> # define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX SZ_4G
> # define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX SZ_64T
> +#define HAVE_ARCH_CRASHKERNEL_RESERVATION_HIGH
> #endif
>
> # define DEFAULT_CRASH_KERNEL_LOW_SIZE crash_low_size_default()
> diff --git a/kernel/crash_reserve.c b/kernel/crash_reserve.c
> index 5b2722a93a48..c5213f123e19 100644
> --- a/kernel/crash_reserve.c
> +++ b/kernel/crash_reserve.c
> @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ int __init parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline,
> /* crashkernel=X[@offset] */
> ret = __parse_crashkernel(cmdline, system_ram, crash_size,
> crash_base, NULL);
> -#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GENERIC_CRASHKERNEL_RESERVATION
> +#ifdef HAVE_ARCH_CRASHKERNEL_RESERVATION_HIGH
> /*
> * If non-NULL 'high' passed in and no normal crashkernel
> * setting detected, try parsing crashkernel=,high|low.
>
>
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