Re: [PATCH v12 7/7] x86/crash: Add x86 crash hotplug support
From: Eric DeVolder
Date: Fri Oct 07 2022 - 15:34:11 EST
On 9/19/22 02:06, Sourabh Jain wrote:
On 10/09/22 02:35, Eric DeVolder wrote:
For x86_64, when CPU or memory is hot un/plugged, the crash
elfcorehdr, which describes the CPUs and memory in the system,
must also be updated.
When loading the crash kernel via kexec_load or kexec_file_load,
the elfcorehdr is identified at run time in
crash_core:handle_hotplug_event().
To update the elfcorehdr for x86_64, a new elfcorehdr must be
generated from the available CPUs and memory. The new elfcorehdr
is prepared into a buffer, and then installed over the top of
the existing elfcorehdr.
In the patch 'kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest'
the need to update purgatory due to the change in elfcorehdr was
eliminated. As a result, no changes to purgatory or boot_params
(as the elfcorehdr= kernel command line parameter pointer
remains unchanged and correct) are needed, just elfcorehdr.
To accommodate a growing number of resources via hotplug, the
elfcorehdr segment must be sufficiently large enough to accommodate
changes, see the CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES configure item.
With this change, crash hotplug for kexec_file_load syscall
is supported. The kexec_load is also supported, but also
requires a corresponding change to userspace kexec-tools.
Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 11 ++++
arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h | 20 +++++++
arch/x86/kernel/crash.c | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 133 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index f9920f1341c8..cdfc9b2fdf98 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -2056,6 +2056,17 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y).
For more details see Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
+config CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES
+ depends on CRASH_DUMP && KEXEC_FILE && (HOTPLUG_CPU || MEMORY_HOTPLUG)
+ int
+ default 32768
+ help
+ For the kexec_file_load path, specify the maximum number of
+ memory regions, eg. as represented by the 'System RAM' entries
+ in /proc/iomem, that the elfcorehdr buffer/segment can accommodate.
+ This value is combined with NR_CPUS and multiplied by Elf64_Phdr
+ size to determine the final buffer size.
+
config KEXEC_JUMP
bool "kexec jump"
depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
index a3760ca796aa..432073385b2d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
@@ -212,6 +212,26 @@ typedef void crash_vmclear_fn(void);
extern crash_vmclear_fn __rcu *crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss;
extern void kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus(void);
+void *arch_map_crash_pages(unsigned long paddr, unsigned long size);
+#define arch_map_crash_pages arch_map_crash_pages
+
+void arch_unmap_crash_pages(void **ptr);
+#define arch_unmap_crash_pages arch_unmap_crash_pages
+
+void arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event(struct kimage *image,
+ unsigned int hp_action);
+#define arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+static inline int crash_hotplug_cpu_support(void) { return 1; }
+#define crash_hotplug_cpu_support crash_hotplug_cpu_support
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+static inline int crash_hotplug_memory_support(void) { return 1; }
+#define crash_hotplug_memory_support crash_hotplug_memory_support
+#endif
+
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
#endif /* _ASM_X86_KEXEC_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
index 9ceb93c176a6..8fc7d678ac72 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/memblock.h>
+#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/hardirq.h>
@@ -397,7 +398,18 @@ int crash_load_segments(struct kimage *image)
image->elf_headers = kbuf.buffer;
image->elf_headers_sz = kbuf.bufsz;
+#if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG)
+ /* Ensure elfcorehdr segment large enough for hotplug changes */
+ kbuf.memsz =
+ (CONFIG_NR_CPUS_DEFAULT + CONFIG_CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES) *
+ sizeof(Elf64_Phdr);
+ /* Mark as usable to crash kernel, else crash kernel fails on boot */
+ image->elf_headers_sz = kbuf.memsz;
+ image->elfcorehdr_index = image->nr_segments;
+ image->elfcorehdr_index_valid = true;
+#else
kbuf.memsz = kbuf.bufsz;
+#endif
kbuf.buf_align = ELF_CORE_HEADER_ALIGN;
kbuf.mem = KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN;
ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf);
@@ -412,3 +424,93 @@ int crash_load_segments(struct kimage *image)
return ret;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE */
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG)
+/*
+ * NOTE: The addresses and sizes passed to this routine have
+ * already been fully aligned on page boundaries. There is no
+ * need for massaging the address or size.
+ */
+void *arch_map_crash_pages(unsigned long paddr, unsigned long size)
+{
+ void *ptr = NULL;
+
+ if (size > 0) {
+ struct page *page = pfn_to_page(paddr >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+
+ ptr = kmap_local_page(page);
+ }
+
+ return ptr;
+}
+
+void arch_unmap_crash_pages(void **ptr)
+{
+ if (ptr) {
+ if (*ptr)
+ kunmap_local(*ptr);
+ *ptr = NULL;
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event() - Handle hotplug elfcorehdr changes
+ * @image: the active struct kimage
+ * @hp_action: the hot un/plug action being handled
+ *
+ * To accurately reflect hot un/plug changes, the new elfcorehdr
+ * is prepared in a kernel buffer, and then it is written on top
+ * of the existing/old elfcorehdr.
+ */
+void arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event(struct kimage *image,
+ unsigned int hp_action)
+{
+ struct kexec_segment *ksegment;
+ unsigned char *ptr = NULL;
+ unsigned long elfsz = 0;
+ void *elfbuf = NULL;
+ unsigned long mem, memsz;
+
+ /*
+ * Elfcorehdr_index_valid checked in crash_core:handle_hotplug_event()
+ */
+ ksegment = &image->segment[image->elfcorehdr_index];
+ mem = ksegment->mem;
+ memsz = ksegment->memsz;
+
+ /*
+ * Create the new elfcorehdr reflecting the changes to CPU and/or
+ * memory resources.
+ */
+ if (prepare_elf_headers(image, &elfbuf, &elfsz)) {
+ pr_err("crash hp: unable to prepare elfcore headers");
+ goto out;
On PowerPC, while preparing the elf core header the memblock structure is used to prepare program
header for memory regions of elfcorehdr. Since the above arch specific hotplug handler gets invoked
when memory is marked offline (MEM_OFFLINE) which is before memblock structure gets updated so on
PowerPC the above handler may not work for memory hotplug case.
Just wondering which data structure is used to get the list of memory regions while preparing
program header for memory regions of elfcorehdr on other architectures?
Thanks,
Sourabh Jain
I think your request to report the memory block address in comments of patch 3/7 "crash: add generic
infrastructure" cover this scenario now.
Thanks,
eric