[patch V3 28/37] mips/crashdump: Simplify copy_oldmem_page()

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Tue Nov 3 04:27:40 EST 2020


Replace kmap_atomic_pfn() with kmap_local_pfn() which is preemptible and
can take page faults.

Remove the indirection of the dump page and the related cruft which is not
longer required.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend at alpha.franken.de>
Cc: linux-mips at vger.kernel.org
---
V3: New patch
---
 arch/mips/kernel/crash_dump.c |   42 +++++++-----------------------------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/mips/kernel/crash_dump.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/crash_dump.c
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 
-static void *kdump_buf_page;
-
 /**
  * copy_oldmem_page - copy one page from "oldmem"
  * @pfn: page frame number to be copied
@@ -17,51 +15,25 @@ static void *kdump_buf_page;
  * @userbuf: if set, @buf is in user address space, use copy_to_user(),
  *	otherwise @buf is in kernel address space, use memcpy().
  *
- * Copy a page from "oldmem". For this page, there is no pte mapped
+ * Copy a page from "oldmem". For this page, there might be no pte mapped
  * in the current kernel.
- *
- * Calling copy_to_user() in atomic context is not desirable. Hence first
- * copying the data to a pre-allocated kernel page and then copying to user
- * space in non-atomic context.
  */
-ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf,
-			 size_t csize, unsigned long offset, int userbuf)
+ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf, size_t csize,
+			 unsigned long offset, int userbuf)
 {
 	void  *vaddr;
 
 	if (!csize)
 		return 0;
 
-	vaddr = kmap_atomic_pfn(pfn);
+	vaddr = kmap_local_pfn(pfn);
 
 	if (!userbuf) {
-		memcpy(buf, (vaddr + offset), csize);
-		kunmap_atomic(vaddr);
+		memcpy(buf, vaddr + offset, csize);
 	} else {
-		if (!kdump_buf_page) {
-			pr_warn("Kdump: Kdump buffer page not allocated\n");
-
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
-		copy_page(kdump_buf_page, vaddr);
-		kunmap_atomic(vaddr);
-		if (copy_to_user(buf, (kdump_buf_page + offset), csize))
-			return -EFAULT;
+		if (copy_to_user(buf, vaddr + offset, csize))
+			csize = -EFAULT;
 	}
 
 	return csize;
 }
-
-static int __init kdump_buf_page_init(void)
-{
-	int ret = 0;
-
-	kdump_buf_page = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!kdump_buf_page) {
-		pr_warn("Kdump: Failed to allocate kdump buffer page\n");
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
-	}
-
-	return ret;
-}
-arch_initcall(kdump_buf_page_init);




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