From: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/crashdump : fix page frame number check in copy_oldmem_page
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:30:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140224163055.7263.86979.stgit@nimbus> (raw)
In copy_oldmem_page, the current check using max_pfn and min_low_pfn to
decide if the page is backed or not, is not valid when the memory layout is
not continuous.
This happens when running as a QEMU/KVM guest, where RTAS is mapped higher
in the memory. In that case max_pfn points to the end of RTAS, and a hole
between the end of the kdump kernel and RTAS is not backed by PTEs. As a
consequence, the kdump kernel is crashing in copy_oldmem_page when accessing
in a direct way the pages in that hole.
This fix relies on the memblock's service memblock_is_region_memory to
check if the read page is part or not of the directly accessible memory.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
index 11c1d06..7a13f37 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
@@ -98,17 +98,19 @@ ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf,
size_t csize, unsigned long offset, int userbuf)
{
void *vaddr;
+ phys_addr_t paddr;
if (!csize)
return 0;
csize = min_t(size_t, csize, PAGE_SIZE);
+ paddr = pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
- if ((min_low_pfn < pfn) && (pfn < max_pfn)) {
- vaddr = __va(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
+ if (memblock_is_region_memory(paddr, csize)) {
+ vaddr = __va(paddr);
csize = copy_oldmem_vaddr(vaddr, buf, csize, offset, userbuf);
} else {
- vaddr = __ioremap(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
+ vaddr = __ioremap(paddr, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
csize = copy_oldmem_vaddr(vaddr, buf, csize, offset, userbuf);
iounmap(vaddr);
}
next reply other threads:[~2014-02-24 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-24 16:30 Laurent Dufour [this message]
2014-02-25 1:47 ` [PATCH] powerpc/crashdump : fix page frame number check in copy_oldmem_page Michael Ellerman
2014-02-26 14:04 ` Laurent Dufour
2014-02-26 18:38 ` Mahesh J Salgaonkar
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