Re: [PATCH v17 2/6] crash: add a new kexec flag for hotplug support

[Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>]

On 02/26/24 at 02:11pm, Sourabh Jain wrote:
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> diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
> index 70fa8111a9d6..630c4fd7ea39 100644
> --- a/kernel/crash_core.c
> +++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
> @@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(__crash_hotplug_lock);
>   * It reflects the kernel's ability/permission to update the crash
>   * elfcorehdr directly.
     ~~~~~~~~~ this should be updated too.

>   */
> -int crash_check_update_elfcorehdr(void)
> +int crash_check_hotplug_support(void)
>  {
>  	int rc = 0;
>  
> @@ -508,10 +508,7 @@ int crash_check_update_elfcorehdr(void)
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  	if (kexec_crash_image) {
> -		if (kexec_crash_image->file_mode)
> -			rc = 1;
> -		else
> -			rc = kexec_crash_image->update_elfcorehdr;
> +		rc = kexec_crash_image->hotplug_support;
>  	}
>  	/* Release lock now that update complete */
>  	kexec_unlock();
> @@ -552,8 +549,8 @@ static void crash_handle_hotplug_event(unsigned int hp_action, unsigned int cpu,
>  
>  	image = kexec_crash_image;
>  
> -	/* Check that updating elfcorehdr is permitted */
> -	if (!(image->file_mode || image->update_elfcorehdr))
> +	/* Check that kexec segments update is permitted */
> +	if (!image->hotplug_support)
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	if (hp_action == KEXEC_CRASH_HP_ADD_CPU ||
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
> index bab542fc1463..a6b3f96bb50c 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ static int do_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,
>  		image->preserve_context = 1;
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
> -	if (flags & KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR)
> -		image->update_elfcorehdr = 1;
> +	if ((flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) && arch_crash_hotplug_support(image, flags))
> +		image->hotplug_support = 1;
>  #endif
>  
>  	ret = machine_kexec_prepare(image);
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> index 2d1db05fbf04..3d64290d24c9 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> @@ -376,6 +376,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(kexec_file_load, int, kernel_fd, int, initrd_fd,
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto out;
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
> +	if ((flags & KEXEC_FILE_ON_CRASH) && arch_crash_hotplug_support(image, flags))
> +		image->hotplug_support = 1;
> +#endif
> +
>  	ret = machine_kexec_prepare(image);
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto out;

Other than the tiny part, the overall looks good to me.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>