From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]) by desiato.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.94 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1lP1XG-00Gyc7-KO for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2021 11:18:52 +0000 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:18:40 +0100 From: Oscar Salvador Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] kernel/resource: make walk_system_ram_res() find all busy IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM resources Message-ID: <20210324111835.GA18855@linux> References: <20210322160200.19633-1-david@redhat.com> <20210322160200.19633-2-david@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210322160200.19633-2-david@redhat.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: David Hildenbrand Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dan Williams , Daniel Vetter , Andy Shevchenko , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Dave Young , Baoquan He , Vivek Goyal , Dave Hansen , Keith Busch , Michal Hocko , Qian Cai , Eric Biederman , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" , Tom Lendacky , Brijesh Singh , x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 05:01:58PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > It used to be true that we can have busy system RAM only on the first level > in the resourc tree. However, this is no longer holds for driver-managed > system RAM (i.e., added via dax/kmem and virtio-mem), which gets added on > lower levels. Let me ask some rookie questions: What does "busy" term stand for here? Why resources coming from virtio-mem are added at a lower levels? > > We have two users of walk_system_ram_res(), which currently only > consideres the first level: > a) kernel/kexec_file.c:kexec_walk_resources() -- We properly skip > IORESOURCE_SYSRAM_DRIVER_MANAGED resources via > locate_mem_hole_callback(), so even after this change, we won't be > placing kexec images onto dax/kmem and virtio-mem added memory. No > change. > b) arch/x86/kernel/crash.c:fill_up_crash_elf_data() -- we're currently > not adding relevant ranges to the crash elf info, resulting in them > not getting dumped via kdump. > > This change fixes loading a crashkernel via kexec_file_load() and including > dax/kmem and virtio-mem added System RAM in the crashdump on x86-64. Note > that e.g,, arm64 relies on memblock data and, therefore, always considers > all added System RAM already. > > Let's find all busy IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM resources, making the function > behave like walk_system_ram_range(). > > Cc: Andrew Morton > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman > Cc: Dan Williams > Cc: Daniel Vetter > Cc: Andy Shevchenko > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab > Cc: Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand > Cc: Dave Young > Cc: Baoquan He > Cc: Vivek Goyal > Cc: Dave Hansen > Cc: Keith Busch > Cc: Michal Hocko > Cc: Qian Cai > Cc: Oscar Salvador > Cc: Eric Biederman > Cc: Thomas Gleixner > Cc: Ingo Molnar > Cc: Borislav Petkov > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" > Cc: Tom Lendacky > Cc: Brijesh Singh > Cc: x86@kernel.org > Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org > Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand > --- > kernel/resource.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c > index 627e61b0c124..4efd6e912279 100644 > --- a/kernel/resource.c > +++ b/kernel/resource.c > @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ int walk_system_ram_res(u64 start, u64 end, void *arg, > { > unsigned long flags = IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM | IORESOURCE_BUSY; > > - return __walk_iomem_res_desc(start, end, flags, IORES_DESC_NONE, true, > + return __walk_iomem_res_desc(start, end, flags, IORES_DESC_NONE, false, > arg, func); > } > > -- > 2.29.2 > > -- Oscar Salvador SUSE L3 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec