[PATCH v4 5/5] RISC-V: Add crash kernel support

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Nick,

CC rob, dt

Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 5640975003d0234d ("RISC-V:
Add crash kernel support") in v5.13-rc1.

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 2:56 AM Nick Kossifidis <mick at ics.forth.gr> wrote:
> This patch allows Linux to act as a crash kernel for use with
> kdump. Userspace will let the crash kernel know about the
> memory region it can use through linux,usable-memory property
> on the /memory node (overriding its reg property), and about the
> memory region where the elf core header of the previous kernel
> is saved, through a reserved-memory node with a compatible string
> of "linux,elfcorehdr". This approach is the least invasive and
> re-uses functionality already present.

This does not match
https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/blob/master/schemas/chosen.yaml#L77:

    $ref: types.yaml#/definitions/uint64-array
    maxItems: 2
    description:
      This property (currently used only on arm64) holds the memory range,
      the address and the size, of the elf core header which mainly describes
      the panicked kernel\'s memory layout as PT_LOAD segments of elf format.

Hence "linux,elfcorehdr" should be a property of the /chosen node,
instead of a memory node with a compatible value of "linux,elfcorehdr".

> I tested this on riscv64 qemu and it works as expected, you
> may test it by retrieving the dmesg of the previous kernel
> through /proc/vmcore, using the vmcore-dmesg utility from
> kexec-tools.
>
> v4:
>  * Rebase on top of "fixes" branch
>
> v3:
>  * Rebase
>
> v2:
>  * Use linux,usable-memory on /memory instead of a new binding

This part seems to have been removed in v3 and later?
Note that "linux,usable-memory-range" should be a property of the
/chosen node, too, cfr.
https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/blob/master/schemas/chosen.yaml#L85

>  * Use a reserved-memory node for ELF core header
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mick at ics.forth.gr>


> --- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> @@ -653,6 +666,26 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
>  }
>  #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE */
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
> +/*
> + * We keep track of the ELF core header of the crashed
> + * kernel with a reserved-memory region with compatible
> + * string "linux,elfcorehdr". Here we register a callback
> + * to populate elfcorehdr_addr/size when this region is
> + * present. Note that this region will be marked as
> + * reserved once we call early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem()
> + * later on.
> + */
> +static int elfcore_hdr_setup(struct reserved_mem *rmem)
> +{
> +       elfcorehdr_addr = rmem->base;
> +       elfcorehdr_size = rmem->size;
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +
> +RESERVEDMEM_OF_DECLARE(elfcorehdr, "linux,elfcorehdr", elfcore_hdr_setup);
> +#endif
> +
>  void __init paging_init(void)
>  {
>         setup_vm_final();
> --
> 2.26.2

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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