From: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
To: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>,
Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>,
Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>, Tao Liu <ltao@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Hildenbrand <dhildenb@redhat.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH v4 4/5] kdump: wait for DMA to finish when using CMA
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 22:29:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aDoVO4H4CpXPjAdI@dwarf.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aDoT08LfXUEkS9E4@dwarf.suse.cz>
When re-using the CMA area for kdump there is a risk of pending DMA into
pinned user pages in the CMA area.
Pages that are pinned long-term are migrated away from CMA, so these are
not a concern. Pages pinned without FOLL_LONGTERM remain in the CMA and may
possibly be the source or destination of a pending DMA transfer.
Although there is no clear specification how long a page may be pinned
without FOLL_LONGTERM, pinning without the flag shows an intent of the
caller to only use the memory for short-lived DMA transfers, not a transfer
initiated by a device asynchronously at a random time in the future.
Add a delay of CMA_DMA_TIMEOUT_SEC seconds before starting the kdump
kernel, giving such short-lived DMA transfers time to finish before the CMA
memory is re-used by the kdump kernel.
Set CMA_DMA_TIMEOUT_SEC to 10 seconds - chosen arbitrarily as both
a huge margin for a DMA transfer, yet not increasing the kdump time
too significantly.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
---
Changes since v3:
- renamed CMA_DMA_TIMEOUT_SEC to CMA_DMA_TIMEOUT_MSEC, change delay to 10 seconds
- introduce a cma_dma_timeout_sec initialized to CMA_DMA_TIMEOUT_SEC
to make the timeout trivially tunable if needed in the future
---
include/linux/crash_core.h | 3 +++
kernel/crash_core.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/crash_core.h b/include/linux/crash_core.h
index 44305336314e..805a07042c96 100644
--- a/include/linux/crash_core.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_core.h
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ static inline unsigned int crash_get_elfcorehdr_size(void) { return 0; }
/* Alignment required for elf header segment */
#define ELF_CORE_HEADER_ALIGN 4096
+/* Default value for cma_dma_timeout_sec */
+#define CMA_DMA_TIMEOUT_SEC 10
+
extern int crash_exclude_mem_range(struct crash_mem *mem,
unsigned long long mstart,
unsigned long long mend);
diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
index 335b8425dd4b..a255c9e2ef29 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <linux/reboot.h>
#include <linux/btf.h>
#include <linux/objtool.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
@@ -33,6 +34,11 @@
/* Per cpu memory for storing cpu states in case of system crash. */
note_buf_t __percpu *crash_notes;
+/* time to wait for possible DMA to finish before starting the kdump kernel
+ * when a CMA reservation is used
+ */
+unsigned int cma_dma_timeout_sec = CMA_DMA_TIMEOUT_SEC;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
int kimage_crash_copy_vmcoreinfo(struct kimage *image)
@@ -97,6 +103,17 @@ int kexec_crash_loaded(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kexec_crash_loaded);
+static void crash_cma_clear_pending_dma(void)
+{
+ unsigned int s = cma_dma_timeout_sec;
+
+ if (!crashk_cma_cnt)
+ return;
+
+ while (s--)
+ mdelay(1000);
+}
+
/*
* No panic_cpu check version of crash_kexec(). This function is called
* only when panic_cpu holds the current CPU number; this is the only CPU
@@ -119,6 +135,7 @@ void __noclone __crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
crash_setup_regs(&fixed_regs, regs);
crash_save_vmcoreinfo();
machine_crash_shutdown(&fixed_regs);
+ crash_cma_clear_pending_dma();
machine_kexec(kexec_crash_image);
}
kexec_unlock();
--
Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, Prague, Czechia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-30 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-30 20:23 [PATCH v4 0/5] kdump: crashkernel reservation from CMA Jiri Bohac
2025-05-30 20:26 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] Add a new optional ",cma" suffix to the crashkernel= command line option Jiri Bohac
2025-05-30 20:27 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] kdump: implement reserve_crashkernel_cma Jiri Bohac
2025-05-30 20:28 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] kdump, documentation: describe craskernel CMA reservation Jiri Bohac
2025-05-30 20:29 ` Jiri Bohac [this message]
2025-06-03 13:15 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] kdump: wait for DMA to finish when using CMA David Hildenbrand
2025-06-03 15:59 ` Jiri Bohac
2025-06-03 16:25 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-04 7:40 ` Jiri Bohac
2025-06-04 7:42 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-06-04 8:15 ` [PATCH v5 " Jiri Bohac
2025-05-30 20:31 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] x86: implement crashkernel cma reservation Jiri Bohac
2025-06-03 11:02 ` Baoquan He
2025-06-03 12:11 ` Jiri Bohac
2025-06-03 12:56 ` Baoquan He
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