Re: [PATCH v11 0/5] support reserving crashkernel above 4G on arm64 kdump

Dave Young
2020-08-06T11:38:32Z

Hi Chen,

Thanks for the update. I was busy on other things, I will review your x86/common changes
this weekend or early next week.

On 08/01/20 at 09:08pm, Chen Zhou wrote:
> There are following issues in arm64 kdump:
> 1. We use crashkernel=X to reserve crashkernel below 4G, which
> will fail when there is no enough low memory.
> 2. If reserving crashkernel above 4G, in this case, crash dump
> kernel will boot failure because there is no low memory available
> for allocation.
> 3. Since commit 1a8e1cef7603 ("arm64: use both ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32"),
> if the memory reserved for crash dump kernel falled in ZONE_DMA32,
> the devices in crash dump kernel need to use ZONE_DMA will alloc
> fail.
>
> To solve these issues, change the behavior of crashkernel=X.
> crashkernel=X tries low allocation in ZONE_DMA, and fall back to
> high allocation if it fails.
>
> If requized size X is too large and leads to very little free memory
> in ZONE_DMA after low allocation, the system may not work normally.
> So add a threshold and go for high allocation directly if the required
> size is too large. The value of threshold is set as the half of
> the low memory.
>
> If crash_base is outside ZONE_DMA, try to allocate at least 256M in
> ZONE_DMA automatically. "crashkernel=Y,low" can be used to allocate
> specified size low memory.
> For non-RPi4 platforms, change ZONE_DMA memtioned above to ZONE_DMA32.
>
> When reserving crashkernel in high memory, some low memory is reserved
> for crash dump kernel devices. So there may be two regions reserved for
> crash dump kernel, one is below 4G, the other is above 4G.
> In order to distinct from the high region and make no effect to the use
> of existing kexec-tools, rename the low region as "Crash kernel (low)",
> and pass the low region by reusing DT property
> "linux,usable-memory-range". We made the low memory region as the last
> range of "linux,usable-memory-range" to keep compatibility with existing
> user-space and older kdump kernels.
>
> Besides, we need to modify kexec-tools:
> arm64: support more than one crash kernel regions(see [1])
>
> Another update is document about DT property 'linux,usable-memory-range':
> schemas: update 'linux,usable-memory-range' node schema(see [2])
>
> Changes since [v10]
> - Reimplement crashkernel=X suggested by Catalin, Many thanks to Catalin.
>
> Changes since [v9]
> - Patch 1 add Acked-by from Dave.
> - Update patch 5 according to Dave's comments.
> - Update chosen schema.
>
> Changes since [v8]
> - Reuse DT property "linux,usable-memory-range".
> Suggested by Rob, reuse DT property "linux,usable-memory-range" to pass the low
> memory region.
> - Fix kdump broken with ZONE_DMA reintroduced.
> - Update chosen schema.
>
> Changes since [v7]
> - Move x86 CRASH_ALIGN to 2M
> Suggested by Dave and do some test, move x86 CRASH_ALIGN to 2M.
> - Update Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt.
> Add corresponding documentation to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt
> suggested by Arnd.
> - Add Tested-by from Jhon and pk.
>
> Changes since [v6]
> - Fix build errors reported by kbuild test robot.
>
> Changes since [v5]
> - Move reserve_crashkernel_low() into kernel/crash_core.c.
> - Delete crashkernel=X,high.
> - Modify crashkernel=X,low.
> If crashkernel=X,low is specified simultaneously, reserve spcified size low
> memory for crash kdump kernel devices firstly and then reserve memory above 4G.
> In addition, rename crashk_low_res as "Crash kernel (low)" for arm64, and then
> pass to crash dump kernel by DT property "linux,low-memory-range".
> - Update Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst.
>
> Changes since [v4]
> - Reimplement memblock_cap_memory_ranges for multiple ranges by Mike.
>
> Changes since [v3]
> - Add memblock_cap_memory_ranges back for multiple ranges.
> - Fix some compiling warnings.
>
> Changes since [v2]
> - Split patch "arm64: kdump: support reserving crashkernel above 4G" as
> two. Put "move reserve_crashkernel_low() into kexec_core.c" in a separate
> patch.
>
> Changes since [v1]:
> - Move common reserve_crashkernel_low() code into kernel/kexec_core.c.
> - Remove memblock_cap_memory_ranges() i added in v1 and implement that
> in fdt_enforce_memory_region().
> There are at most two crash kernel regions, for two crash kernel regions
> case, we cap the memory range [min(regs[*].start), max(regs[*].end)]
> and then remove the memory range in the middle.
>
> [1]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2020-June/020737.html
> [2]: https://github.com/robherring/dt-schema/pull/19
> [v1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/2/1174
> [v2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/9/86
> [v3]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/9/306
> [v4]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/15/273
> [v5]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/6/1360
> [v6]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/30/142
> [v7]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/23/411
> [v8]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/21/213
> [v9]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/28/73
> [v10]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/2/1443
>
> Chen Zhou (5):
> arm64: kdump: add macro CRASH_ALIGN and CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX
> x86: kdump: move reserve_crashkernel_low() into crash_core.c
> arm64: kdump: reimplement crashkernel=X
> arm64: kdump: add memory for devices by DT property
> linux,usable-memory-range
> kdump: update Documentation about crashkernel
>
> Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst | 21 +++-
> .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 ++-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h | 9 ++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h | 1 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 8 +-
> arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 99 +++++++++++++++----
> arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h | 24 +++++
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 86 ++--------------
> include/linux/crash_core.h | 3 +
> include/linux/kexec.h | 2 -
> kernel/crash_core.c | 74 ++++++++++++++
> kernel/kexec_core.c | 17 ----
> 12 files changed, 233 insertions(+), 122 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.20.1
>
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