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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: [PATCH 2 of 2] kdump pv-on-hvm: reset PV devices in crash kernel
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:14:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0bbf646804818f582e91.1301998469@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1301998467@localhost>

# HG changeset patch
# User Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
# Date 1301997987 -7200
# Node ID 0bbf646804818f582e91dc88038d1c79f76ba36e
# Parent  6cc1c07f0e74cd481d1cde0f17bec2631a767891
kdump pv-on-hvm: reset PV devices in crash kernel

After triggering a crash dump in a HVM guest, the PV backend drivers
will remain in connected state.  When the kdump kernel starts the PV
drivers will skip such devices.  As a result, no root device is found
and the vmcore cant be saved.

With this change all frontend devices with state XenbusStateConnected
will be reset by changing the state file to Closing/Closed/Initializing.
This will trigger a disconnect in the backend drivers. Now the frontend
drivers will find the backend drivers in state Initwait and can connect.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>

---
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c |    4 +
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c |   96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -r 6cc1c07f0e74 -r 0bbf64680481 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c	Tue Apr 05 12:06:20 2011 +0200
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c	Tue Apr 05 12:06:27 2011 +0200
@@ -234,7 +234,9 @@
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "XENBUS response ring is not quiescent "
 		       "(%08x:%08x): fixing up\n",
 		       intf->rsp_cons, intf->rsp_prod);
-		intf->rsp_cons = intf->rsp_prod;
+		/* breaks kdump */
+		if (!reset_devices)
+			intf->rsp_cons = intf->rsp_prod;
 	}
 
 	if (xenbus_irq)
diff -r 6cc1c07f0e74 -r 0bbf64680481 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c	Tue Apr 05 12:06:20 2011 +0200
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c	Tue Apr 05 12:06:27 2011 +0200
@@ -856,11 +856,107 @@
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_xenstore_notifier);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(be_state_wq);
+static int be_state;
+
+static void xenbus_reset_state_changed(struct xenbus_watch *w, const char **v, unsigned int l)
+{
+	xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, v[XS_WATCH_PATH], "", "%i", &be_state);
+	printk(KERN_INFO "XENBUS: %s %s\n", v[XS_WATCH_PATH], xenbus_strstate(be_state));
+	wake_up(&be_state_wq);
+}
+
+static int xenbus_reset_check_final(int *st)
+{
+	return *st == XenbusStateInitialising || *st == XenbusStateInitWait;
+}
+
+static void xenbus_reset_frontend_state(char *backend, char *frontend)
+{
+	struct xenbus_watch watch;
+
+	memset(&watch, 0, sizeof(watch));
+	watch.node = kasprintf(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH, "%s/state", backend);
+	if (!watch.node)
+		return;
+
+	watch.callback = xenbus_reset_state_changed;
+	be_state = XenbusStateUnknown;
+
+	printk(KERN_INFO "XENBUS: triggering reconnect on %s\n", backend);
+	register_xenbus_watch(&watch);
+
+	xenbus_printf(XBT_NIL, frontend, "state", "%d", XenbusStateClosing);
+	wait_event_interruptible(be_state_wq, be_state == XenbusStateClosing);
+
+	xenbus_printf(XBT_NIL, frontend, "state", "%d", XenbusStateClosed);
+	wait_event_interruptible(be_state_wq, be_state == XenbusStateClosed);
+
+	xenbus_printf(XBT_NIL, frontend, "state", "%d", XenbusStateInitialising);
+	wait_event_interruptible(be_state_wq, xenbus_reset_check_final(&be_state));
+
+	unregister_xenbus_watch(&watch);
+	printk(KERN_INFO "XENBUS: reconnect done on %s\n", backend);
+	kfree(watch.node);
+}
+
+static void xenbus_reset_check_state(char *class, char *dev)
+{
+	int state, err;
+	char *backend, *frontend;
+
+	frontend = kasprintf(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH, "device/%s/%s", class, dev);
+	if (!frontend)
+		return;
+
+	err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, frontend, "state", "%i", &state);
+	/* frontend connected? */
+	if (err == 1 && state == XenbusStateConnected) {
+		backend = xenbus_read(XBT_NIL, frontend, "backend", NULL);
+		if (!backend || IS_ERR(backend))
+			goto out;
+		err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, backend, "state", "%i", &state);
+		/* backend connected? */
+		if (err == 1 && state == XenbusStateConnected)
+			xenbus_reset_frontend_state(backend, frontend);
+		kfree(backend);
+	}
+out:
+	kfree(frontend);
+}
+
+static void xenbus_reset_state(void)
+{
+	char **devclass, **dev;
+	int devclass_n, dev_n;
+	int i, j;
+
+	devclass = xenbus_directory(XBT_NIL, "device", "", &devclass_n);
+	if (IS_ERR(devclass))
+		return;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < devclass_n; i++) {
+		dev = xenbus_directory(XBT_NIL, "device", devclass[i], &dev_n);
+		if (IS_ERR(dev))
+			continue;
+		for (j = 0; j < dev_n; j++)
+			xenbus_reset_check_state(devclass[i], dev[j]);
+		kfree(dev);
+	}
+	kfree(devclass);
+}
+#endif
 
 void xenbus_probe(void *unused)
 {
 	BUG_ON(!is_xenstored_ready());
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
+	/* reset devices in XenbusStateConnected state */
+	if (!is_initial_xendomain() && reset_devices)
+		xenbus_reset_state();
+#endif
 	/* Enumerate devices in xenstore and watch for changes. */
 	xenbus_probe_devices(&xenbus_frontend);
 	register_xenbus_watch(&fe_watch);

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-05 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-05 10:14 [PATCH 0 of 2] linux-2.6.18: kdump for pv-on-hvm guests Olaf Hering
2011-04-05 10:14 ` [PATCH 1 of 2] kdump pv-on-hvm: introduce "reset_devices" command line option Olaf Hering
2011-04-05 10:14 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2011-04-05 13:54   ` [PATCH 2 of 2] kdump pv-on-hvm: reset PV devices in crash kernel Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-04-05 13:56     ` Olaf Hering

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