Re: [PATCH v3 08/17] arm64: Add KHO support

[Rob Herring]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 02:46:55PM +0000, Alexander Graf wrote:
> We now have all bits in place to support KHO kexecs. This patch adds
> awareness of KHO in the kexec file as well as boot path for arm64 and
> adds the respective kconfig option to the architecture so that it can
> use KHO successfully.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <graf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> 
> v1 -> v2:
> 
>   - test bot warning fix
>   - Change kconfig option to ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_KHO
>   - s/kho_reserve_mem/kho_reserve_previous_mem/g
>   - s/kho_reserve/kho_reserve_scratch/g
>   - Remove / reduce ifdefs for kho fdt code
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig        |  3 +++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c |  2 ++
>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c      |  8 ++++++
>  drivers/of/fdt.c          | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/of/kexec.c        | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 106 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 8f6cf1221b6a..44d8923d9db4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -1496,6 +1496,9 @@ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_IMAGE_VERIFY_SIG
>  config ARCH_DEFAULT_KEXEC_IMAGE_VERIFY_SIG
>  	def_bool y
>  
> +config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_KHO
> +	def_bool y
> +
>  config ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_DUMP
>  	def_bool y
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> index 417a8a86b2db..9aa05b84d202 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -346,6 +346,8 @@ void __init __no_sanitize_address setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
>  
>  	paging_init();
>  
> +	kho_reserve_previous_mem();
> +
>  	acpi_table_upgrade();
>  
>  	/* Parse the ACPI tables for possible boot-time configuration */
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index 74c1db8ce271..1a8fc91509af 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -358,6 +358,8 @@ void __init bootmem_init(void)
>  	 */
>  	arch_reserve_crashkernel();
>  
> +	kho_reserve_scratch();
> +
>  	memblock_dump_all();
>  }
>  
> @@ -386,6 +388,12 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
>  	/* this will put all unused low memory onto the freelists */
>  	memblock_free_all();
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Now that all KHO pages are marked as reserved, let's flip them back
> +	 * to normal pages with accurate refcount.
> +	 */
> +	kho_populate_refcount();
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * Check boundaries twice: Some fundamental inconsistencies can be
>  	 * detected at build time already.
> diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> index bf502ba8da95..f9b9a36fb722 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> @@ -1006,6 +1006,42 @@ void __init early_init_dt_check_for_usable_mem_range(void)
>  		memblock_add(rgn[i].base, rgn[i].size);
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * early_init_dt_check_kho - Decode info required for kexec handover from DT
> + */
> +static void __init early_init_dt_check_kho(void)
> +{
> +	unsigned long node = chosen_node_offset;
> +	u64 kho_start, scratch_start, scratch_size, mem_start, mem_size;
> +	const __be32 *p;
> +	int l;
> +
> +	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_KHO) || (long)node < 0)
> +		return;
> +
> +	p = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "linux,kho-dt", &l);

These need to be documented. chosen node schema lives in dtschema.

> +	if (l != (dt_root_addr_cells + dt_root_size_cells) * sizeof(__be32))
> +		return;

I would just make all these fixed 64-bit values rather than based on 
address and size cells. That's what we've done on more recent chosen 
properties describing regions.

Rob