From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F993C3DA60 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:11:13 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender:List-Subscribe:List-Help :List-Post:List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:From:References:CC:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From: Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=zfHaL8nSDTSX6BMDbIbVzUX742pz8D8dpUkoZI7vi38=; b=y8ePTZyGwrMC1VoMOfdy4vo2dO J2ey+KnoztTAP/wZLHkthnXFxE4WR/qXxAnsvRUl3qIvnry/swKrtzIkO3c38wTqCHq0XHcgzmzo4 a8/QxMGylQyDDq/Q3K0FDx4cDQEtMjTUXg0wKv5AysuJqKacilTKzWlzj1+z9drDiDsPKa31dmpCB KZsBbj7tYc5wPE9r2klfmmC3fxXLxeirBk1tKtxZQOlOCh/AzdJXBL4aYvm6n71Q/rvckC7/zhZL/ mEmNaJVTuATxixRdXbmYLR1ON4QbVuGqCcHAg17MbFX+py7bl1hL55c5moQ5F0VyK28tlHQbybK1J H7P7LSMg==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.97.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1sUPyN-0000000Gvhd-02Ns; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:10:59 +0000 Received: from szxga02-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.188]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.97.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1sUPxy-0000000GvXo-44aH; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:10:37 +0000 Received: from mail.maildlp.com (unknown [172.19.88.105]) by szxga02-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4WPs5z63W3zdjDq; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:08:39 +0800 (CST) Received: from kwepemi100008.china.huawei.com (unknown [7.221.188.57]) by mail.maildlp.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1932B140109; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:10:24 +0800 (CST) Received: from [10.67.109.254] (10.67.109.254) by kwepemi100008.china.huawei.com (7.221.188.57) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id 15.1.2507.39; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:10:22 +0800 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:10:21 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] crash: Fix x86_32 crash memory reserve dead loop bug at high Content-Language: en-US To: Baoquan He CC: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , References: <20240718035444.2977105-1-ruanjinjie@huawei.com> <20240718035444.2977105-3-ruanjinjie@huawei.com> From: Jinjie Ruan In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.67.109.254] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems704-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.181) To kwepemi100008.china.huawei.com (7.221.188.57) X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20240718_051035_397099_67124AC9 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 15.82 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 2024/7/18 19:14, Baoquan He wrote: > On 07/18/24 at 11:54am, Jinjie Ruan wrote: > > I don't fully catch the subject, what does the 'dead loop bug at high' > mean? It means alloc at [CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX, CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX] repeatedly which corresponds to the crashkernel parameter of the "high". > >> On x86_32 Qemu machine with 1GB memory, the cmdline "crashkernel=512M" will >> also cause system stall as below: >> >> ACPI: Reserving FACP table memory at [mem 0x3ffe18b8-0x3ffe192b] >> ACPI: Reserving DSDT table memory at [mem 0x3ffe0040-0x3ffe18b7] >> ACPI: Reserving FACS table memory at [mem 0x3ffe0000-0x3ffe003f] >> ACPI: Reserving APIC table memory at [mem 0x3ffe192c-0x3ffe19bb] >> ACPI: Reserving HPET table memory at [mem 0x3ffe19bc-0x3ffe19f3] >> ACPI: Reserving WAET table memory at [mem 0x3ffe19f4-0x3ffe1a1b] >> 143MB HIGHMEM available. >> 879MB LOWMEM available. >> mapped low ram: 0 - 36ffe000 >> low ram: 0 - 36ffe000 >> (stall here) >> >> The reason is that the CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX is equal to CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX >> on x86_32, the first "low" crash kernel memory reservation for 512M fails, >> then it go into the "retry" loop and never came out as below (consider >> CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX = CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX = 512M): >> >> -> reserve_crashkernel_generic() and high is false >> -> alloc at [0, 0x20000000] fail >> -> alloc at [0x20000000, 0x20000000] fail and repeatedly >> (because CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX = CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX). >> >> Fix it by skipping meaningless calls of memblock_phys_alloc_range() with >> `start = end` >> >> After this patch, the retry dead loop is avoided and print below info: >> cannot allocate crashkernel (size:0x20000000) >> >> And apply generic crashkernel reservation to 32bit system will be ready. >> >> Fixes: 9c08a2a139fe ("x86: kdump: use generic interface to simplify crashkernel reservation code") >> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan >> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He >> Tested-by: Jinjie Ruan > > Also the tag issues, please update. > > Other than above concerns, the patch looks good to me. Thank you for your review, I'll fix it. > >> --- >> v3: >> - Fix it as Baoquan suggested. >> - Update the commit message. >> --- >> kernel/crash_reserve.c | 3 ++- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/kernel/crash_reserve.c b/kernel/crash_reserve.c >> index c5213f123e19..dacc268429e2 100644 >> --- a/kernel/crash_reserve.c >> +++ b/kernel/crash_reserve.c >> @@ -414,7 +414,8 @@ void __init reserve_crashkernel_generic(char *cmdline, >> search_end = CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX; >> search_base = CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX; >> crash_low_size = DEFAULT_CRASH_KERNEL_LOW_SIZE; >> - goto retry; >> + if (search_base != search_end) >> + goto retry; >> } >> >> /* >> -- >> 2.34.1 >> > >