Re: [Patch 1/8] kexec: allow to shrink reserved memory

Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-22T01:39:43Z

Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> writes:

> This patch implements shrinking the reserved memory for crash kernel,
> if it is more than enough.
>
> For example, if you have already reserved 128M, now you just want 100M,
> you can do:
>
> # echo $((100*1024*1024)) > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size
>
> Note, you can only do this before loading the crash kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> ---
>
> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/kexec.h
> =================================> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/kexec.h
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/kexec.h
> @@ -206,6 +206,8 @@ extern size_t vmcoreinfo_max_size;
>
> int __init parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline, unsigned long long system_ram,
> unsigned long long *crash_size, unsigned long long *crash_base);
> +int shrink_crash_memory(unsigned long new_size);
> +size_t get_crash_memory_size(void);
>
> #else /* !CONFIG_KEXEC */
> struct pt_regs;
> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/kexec.c
> =================================> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
> #include <linux/cpu.h>
> #include <linux/console.h>
> #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> +#include <linux/swap.h>
>
> #include <asm/page.h>
> #include <asm/uaccess.h>
> @@ -1083,6 +1084,58 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
> }
> }
>
> +size_t get_crash_memory_size(void)
> +{
> + size_t size;
> + mutex_lock(&kexec_mutex);
> + size = crashk_res.end - crashk_res.start + 1;
> + mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
> + return size;
> +}
> +
> +int shrink_crash_memory(unsigned long new_size)
> +{
> + int ret = 0;
> + unsigned long addr;
> + unsigned long start, end;
> +
> + mutex_lock(&kexec_mutex);
> +
> + if (kexec_crash_image) {
> + ret = -ENOENT;
> + goto unlock;
> + }
> + start = crashk_res.start;
> + end = crashk_res.end;
> +
> + if (new_size >= end - start + 1) {
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + if (new_size = end - start + 1)
> + ret = 0;
> + goto unlock;
> + }
> +
> + start = roundup(start, PAGE_SIZE);
> + end = roundup(start + new_size, PAGE_SIZE);
> +
> + for (addr = end; addr < crashk_res.end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
> + ClearPageReserved(pfn_to_page(addr >> PAGE_SHIFT));
> + init_page_count(pfn_to_page(addr >> PAGE_SHIFT));
> + free_page((unsigned long)__va(addr));
> + totalram_pages++;

Any chance we can move this inline snippet into a helper function in
-mm. To expose what is happening here to the mm developers.

Eric

> + }
> +
> + if (start = end) {
> + crashk_res.end = end;
> + release_resource(&crashk_res);
> + } else
> + crashk_res.end = end - 1;
> +
> +unlock:
> + mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> static u32 *append_elf_note(u32 *buf, char *name, unsigned type, void *data,
> size_t data_len)
> {
> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/ksysfs.c
> =================================> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/ksysfs.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/ksysfs.c
> @@ -100,6 +100,26 @@ static ssize_t kexec_crash_loaded_show(s
> }
> KERNEL_ATTR_RO(kexec_crash_loaded);
>
> +static ssize_t kexec_crash_size_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> + return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", get_crash_memory_size());
> +}
> +static ssize_t kexec_crash_size_store(struct kobject *kobj,
> + struct kobj_attribute *attr,
> + const char *buf, size_t count)
> +{
> + unsigned long cnt;
> + int ret;
> +
> + if (strict_strtoul(buf, 0, &cnt))
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> + ret = shrink_crash_memory(cnt);
> + return ret < 0 ? ret : count;
> +}
> +KERNEL_ATTR_RW(kexec_crash_size);
> +
> static ssize_t vmcoreinfo_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> {
> @@ -147,6 +167,7 @@ static struct attribute * kernel_attrs[]
> #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
> &kexec_loaded_attr.attr,
> &kexec_crash_loaded_attr.attr,
> + &kexec_crash_size_attr.attr,
> &vmcoreinfo_attr.attr,
> #endif
> NULL