Re: [PATCH v1 07/11] fs/proc/vmcore: introduce PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_RAM to detect device RAM ranges in 2nd kernel

David Hildenbrand
2024-11-22T09:47:56Z

On 22.11.24 08:31, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 10/25/24 at 05:11pm, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> ......snip...
>> diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
>> index 3e90416ee54e..c332a9a4920b 100644
>> --- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
>> +++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
>> @@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ static LIST_HEAD(vmcore_cb_list);
>> /* Whether the vmcore has been opened once. */
>> static bool vmcore_opened;
>>
>> +static void vmcore_process_device_ram(struct vmcore_cb *cb);
>> +
>> void register_vmcore_cb(struct vmcore_cb *cb)
>> {
>> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cb->next);
>> @@ -80,6 +82,8 @@ void register_vmcore_cb(struct vmcore_cb *cb)
>> */
>> if (vmcore_opened)
>> pr_warn_once("Unexpected vmcore callback registration\n");
>> + else if (cb->get_device_ram)
>> + vmcore_process_device_ram(cb);
>
> Global variable 'vmcore_opened' is used to indicate if /proc/vmcore is
> opened. With &vmcore_mutex, we don't need to worry about concurrent
> opening and modification. However, if people just open /proc/vmcore and
> close it after checking, then s390 will miss the vmcore dumping, is it
> acceptable?

See my reply to your other mail (patch #3).

>
>> mutex_unlock(&vmcore_mutex);
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_vmcore_cb);
>> @@ -1511,6 +1515,158 @@ int vmcore_add_device_dump(struct vmcoredd_data *data)
> ......
>> +
>> +static void vmcore_process_device_ram(struct vmcore_cb *cb)
>> +{
>> + unsigned char *e_ident = (unsigned char *)elfcorebuf;
>> + struct vmcore_mem_node *first, *m;
>> + LIST_HEAD(list);
>> + int count;
>> +
>> + if (cb->get_device_ram(cb, &list)) {
>> + pr_err("Kdump: obtaining device ram ranges failed\n");
>> + return;
>> + }
>> + count = list_count_nodes(&list);
>> + if (!count)
>> + return;
>> +
>> + /* We only support Elf64 dumps for now. */
>> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(e_ident[EI_CLASS] != ELFCLASS64)) {
>> + pr_err("Kdump: device ram ranges only support Elf64\n");
>> + goto out_free;
>> + }
>
> Only supporting Elf64 dumps seems to be a basic checking, do we need
> to put it at the beginning of function? Otherwise, we spend efforts to
> call cb->get_device_ram(), then fail.

The idea was that if there is nothing to add, then the elf class doesn't
matter. But yes, I can move this further up.

Thanks!

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb