[PATCH] [dom0-kernel] fix kdump kernel crash on Xen3.2

[PATCH] [dom0-kernel] fix kdump kernel crash on Xen3.2

[Alex Zeffertt]

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The current dom0 kernel fails to initialise resources needed by a kdump kernel 
when running on Xen3.2, causing the kdump kernel to panic when it is kexec'd.

The kernel is supposed to create some "Crash note" resources (children of the 
"Hypervisor code and data" resource in /proc/iomem).  However, when running on 
Xen 3.2, xen_machine_kexec_setup_resources() encounters an error and returns 
prior to doing this.

The error occurs when it calls the "kexec_get_range" hypercall to determine the 
location of the "vmcoreinfo".  This was only implemented in Xen 3.3.

This patch makes the kernel handle this error gracefully by simply not creating 
the sysfs file "hypervisor/vmcoreinfo" if the hypervisor is unable to provide 
the info - rather than bailing out of xen_machine_kexec_setup_resources() early.


Signed-off-by: Alex Zeffertt <alex.zeffertt@eu.citrix.com>

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diff -r c2eae050926d drivers/xen/core/machine_kexec.c
--- a/drivers/xen/core/machine_kexec.c	Mon Sep 29 15:31:13 2008 +0100
+++ b/drivers/xen/core/machine_kexec.c	Wed Oct 01 10:48:21 2008 +0100
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 	xen_kexec_range_t range;
 	struct resource *res;
 	int k = 0;
+	int rc;
 
 	if (!is_initial_xendomain())
 		return;
@@ -103,12 +104,26 @@
 	memset(&range, 0, sizeof(range));
 	range.range = KEXEC_RANGE_MA_VMCOREINFO;
 
-	if (HYPERVISOR_kexec_op(KEXEC_CMD_kexec_get_range, &range))
-		return;
+	rc = HYPERVISOR_kexec_op(KEXEC_CMD_kexec_get_range, &range);
 
-	if (range.size) {
+	if (rc == 0) {
+		/* Hypercall succeeded */
+		vmcoreinfo_size_xen = range.size;
 		paddr_vmcoreinfo_xen = range.start;
-		vmcoreinfo_size_xen = range.size;
+
+	} else {
+		/* Hypercall failed.
+		 * Indicate not to create sysfs file by resetting globals
+		 */
+		vmcoreinfo_size_xen = 0;
+		paddr_vmcoreinfo_xen = 0;
+		
+		/* The KEXEC_CMD_kexec_get_range hypercall did not implement
+		 * KEXEC_RANGE_MA_VMCOREINFO until Xen 3.3.
+		 * Do not bail out if it fails for this reason.
+		 */
+		if (rc != -EINVAL)
+			return;
 	}
 
 	if (machine_kexec_setup_resources(&xen_hypervisor_res, xen_phys_cpus,
diff -r c2eae050926d drivers/xen/core/xen_sysfs.c
--- a/drivers/xen/core/xen_sysfs.c	Mon Sep 29 15:31:13 2008 +0100
+++ b/drivers/xen/core/xen_sysfs.c	Wed Oct 01 10:48:21 2008 +0100
@@ -339,9 +339,6 @@
 
 static ssize_t vmcoreinfo_show(struct hyp_sysfs_attr *attr, char *page)
 {
-	extern size_t vmcoreinfo_size_xen;
-	extern unsigned long paddr_vmcoreinfo_xen;
-
 	return sprintf(page, "%lx %zx\n",
 		paddr_vmcoreinfo_xen, vmcoreinfo_size_xen);
 }
@@ -358,11 +355,6 @@
 {
 	sysfs_remove_file(&hypervisor_subsys.kset.kobj, &vmcoreinfo_attr.attr);
 }
-
-#else
-
-#define xen_sysfs_vmcoreinfo_init()	0
-#define xen_sysfs_vmcoreinfo_destroy()	((void)0)
 
 #endif
 
@@ -388,10 +380,19 @@
 	ret = xen_properties_init();
 	if (ret)
 		goto prop_out;
-	ret = xen_sysfs_vmcoreinfo_init();
-	if (!ret)
-		goto out;
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+	if (vmcoreinfo_size_xen != 0) {
+		ret = xen_sysfs_vmcoreinfo_init();
+		if (ret)
+			goto vmcoreinfo_out;
+	}
+#endif
 
+	goto out;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+vmcoreinfo_out:
+#endif
 	xen_properties_destroy();
 prop_out:
 	xen_sysfs_uuid_destroy();
@@ -407,7 +408,10 @@
 
 static void __exit hyper_sysfs_exit(void)
 {
-	xen_sysfs_vmcoreinfo_destroy();
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+	if (vmcoreinfo_size_xen != 0)
+		xen_sysfs_vmcoreinfo_destroy();
+#endif
 	xen_properties_destroy();
 	xen_compilation_destroy();
 	xen_sysfs_uuid_destroy();
diff -r c2eae050926d include/xen/interface/kexec.h
--- a/include/xen/interface/kexec.h	Mon Sep 29 15:31:13 2008 +0100
+++ b/include/xen/interface/kexec.h	Wed Oct 01 10:48:22 2008 +0100
@@ -175,6 +175,8 @@
 #define VMCOREINFO_OFFSET_ALIAS(name, field, alias) \
        vmcoreinfo_append_str("OFFSET(%s.%s)=%lu\n", #name, #alias, \
                              (unsigned long)offsetof(struct name, field))
+extern size_t vmcoreinfo_size_xen;
+extern unsigned long paddr_vmcoreinfo_xen;
 
 #endif /* _XEN_PUBLIC_KEXEC_H */
 

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