[RESEND PATCH v5 11/11] ppc64/kexec_file: fix kexec load failure with lack of memory hole

Hari Bathini
2020-07-26T19:40:48Z

The kexec purgatory has to run in real mode. Only the first memory
block maybe accessible in real mode. And, unlike the case with panic
kernel, no memory is set aside for regular kexec load. Another thing
to note is, the memory for crashkernel is reserved at an offset of
128MB. So, when crashkernel memory is reserved, the memory ranges to
load kexec segments shrink further as the generic code only looks for
memblock free memory ranges and in all likelihood only a tiny bit of
memory from 0 to 128MB would be available to load kexec segments.

With kdump being used by default in general, kexec file load is likely
to fail almost always. This can be fixed by changing the memory hole
lookup logic for regular kexec to use the same method as kdump. This
would mean that most kexec segments will overlap with crashkernel
memory region. That should still be ok as the pages, whose destination
address isn't available while loading, are placed in an intermediate
location till a flush to the actual destination address happens during
kexec boot sequence.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com>
---

v4 -> v5:
* Unchanged.

v3 -> v4:
* Unchanged. Added Reviewed-by tag from Thiago.

v2 -> v3:
* Unchanged. Added Tested-by tag from Pingfan.

v1 -> v2:
* New patch to fix locating memory hole for kexec_file_load (kexec -s -l)
when memory is reserved for crashkernel.

arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c | 33 ++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c
index 296be7fc6440..7933b8990714 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c
@@ -1122,13 +1122,6 @@ int arch_kexec_locate_mem_hole(struct kexec_buf *kbuf)
u64 buf_min, buf_max;
int ret;

- /*
- * Use the generic kexec_locate_mem_hole for regular
- * kexec_file_load syscall
- */
- if (kbuf->image->type != KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH)
- return kexec_locate_mem_hole(kbuf);
-
/* Look up the exclude ranges list while locating the memory hole */
emem = &(kbuf->image->arch.exclude_ranges);
if (!(*emem) || ((*emem)->nr_ranges == 0)) {
@@ -1136,11 +1129,15 @@ int arch_kexec_locate_mem_hole(struct kexec_buf *kbuf)
return kexec_locate_mem_hole(kbuf);
}

+ buf_min = kbuf->buf_min;
+ buf_max = kbuf->buf_max;
/* Segments for kdump kernel should be within crashkernel region */
- buf_min = (kbuf->buf_min < crashk_res.start ?
- crashk_res.start : kbuf->buf_min);
- buf_max = (kbuf->buf_max > crashk_res.end ?
- crashk_res.end : kbuf->buf_max);
+ if (kbuf->image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
+ buf_min = (buf_min < crashk_res.start ?
+ crashk_res.start : buf_min);
+ buf_max = (buf_max > crashk_res.end ?
+ crashk_res.end : buf_max);
+ }

if (buf_min > buf_max) {
pr_err("Invalid buffer min and/or max values\n");
@@ -1177,15 +1174,13 @@ int arch_kexec_locate_mem_hole(struct kexec_buf *kbuf)
int arch_kexec_kernel_image_probe(struct kimage *image, void *buf,
unsigned long buf_len)
{
- if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
- int ret;
+ int ret;

- /* Get exclude memory ranges needed for setting up kdump segments */
- ret = get_exclude_memory_ranges(&(image->arch.exclude_ranges));
- if (ret) {
- pr_err("Failed to setup exclude memory ranges for buffer lookup\n");
- return ret;
- }
+ /* Get exclude memory ranges needed for setting up kexec segments */
+ ret = get_exclude_memory_ranges(&(image->arch.exclude_ranges));
+ if (ret) {
+ pr_err("Failed to setup exclude memory ranges for buffer lookup\n");
+ return ret;
}

return kexec_image_probe_default(image, buf, buf_len);