Re: [PATCH v22 5/9] arm64: kdump: Reimplement crashkernel=X

Baoquan He
2022-04-29T03:25:25Z

On 04/28/22 at 05:33pm, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
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>
> On 2022/4/28 11:52, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 04/28/22 at 11:40am, Baoquan He wrote:
> >> Hi Catalin, Zhen Lei,
> >>
> >> On 04/27/22 at 05:04pm, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 09:49:20PM +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
> >>>> On 2022/4/27 20:32, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >>>>> I think one could always pass a default command line like:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> crashkernel=1G,high crashkernel=128M,low
> >>>>>
> >>>>> without much knowledge of the SoC memory layout.
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes, that's what the end result is. The user specify crashkernel=128M,low
> >>>> and the implementation ensure the 128M low memory is allocated from DMA zone.
> >>>> We use arm64_dma_phys_limit as the upper limit for crash low memory.
> >>>>
> >>>> +#define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX arm64_dma_phys_limit
> >>>> + unsigned long long crash_max = CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX;
> >>>> + crash_base = memblock_phys_alloc_range(crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN,
> >>>> crash_base, crash_max);
> >>>>
> >>>>> Another option is to only introduce crashkernel=Y,low and, when that is
> >>>>> passed, crashkernel=Y can go above arm64_dma_phys_limit. We won't need a
> >>>>> 'high' option at all:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> crashkernel=1G - all within ZONE_DMA
> >>>>> crashkernel=1G crashkernel=128M,low - 128M in ZONE_DMA
> >>>>> 1G above ZONE_DMA
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If ZONE_DMA is not present or it extends to the whole RAM, we can ignore
> >>>>> the 'low' option.
> >>>>
> >>>> I think although the code is hard to make generic, the interface is better to
> >>>> be relatively uniform. A user might have to maintain both x86 and arm64, and
> >>>> so on. It's not a good thing that the difference is too big.
> >>>
> >>> There will be some difference as the 4G limit doesn't always hold for
> >>> arm64 (though it's true in most cases). Anyway, we can probably simplify
> >>> things a bit while following the documented behaviour:
> >>>
> >>> crashkernel=Y - current behaviour within ZONE_DMA
> >>> crashkernel=Y,high - allocate from above ZONE_DMA
> >>> crashkernel=Y,low - allocate within ZONE_DMA
> >>>
> >>> There is no fallback from crashkernel=Y.
> >>>
> >>> The question is whether we still want a default low allocation if
> >>> crashkernel=Y,low is missing but 'high' is present. If we add this, I
> >>> think we'd be consistent with kernel-parameters.txt for the 'low'
> >>> description. A default 'low' is probably not that bad but I'm tempted to
> >>> always mandate both 'high' and 'low'.
> >>
> >> Sorry to interrupt. Seems the ,high ,low and fallback are main concerns
> >> about this version. And I have the same concerns about them which comes
> >> from below points:
> >> 1) we may need to take best effort to keep ,high, ,low behaviour
> >> consistent on all ARCHes. Otherwise user/admin may be confused when they
> >> deploy/configure kdump on different machines of different ARCHes in the
> >> same LAB. I think we should try to avoid the confusion.
>
> Yes, but for someone who is configuring crashkernel= for the first time, he
> needs to read doc to understand how to configure it. The doc can show the
> recommended default value of 'low' size.
>
> After commit 94fb93341822 ("x86/crash: Allocate enough low memory when crashkernel=high"),
> the default 'low' size doesn't make much sense anymore. The default size of swiotlb_size()
> is 64M, far less than 256M. And if user specify "swiotlb=", he can also adjust crashkernel=Y,low.
>
>
> + * -swiotlb size: user-specified with swiotlb= or default.
> - low_size = swiotlb_size_or_default() + (8UL<<20);
> + low_size = max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + (8UL<<20), 256UL<<20);
>
> That means all ARCHs can explicit configure crashkernel=256M,low, instead of
> omitting it. This may be another way to avoid confusion. It's not hard for
> programmer-turned-user/admin. However, this requires us to forgo backward
> compatibility with the default size of 'low'.

We can make ,high and ,low simpler at first as they are alternative. If
possible, we can also simplify the ,high ,low implementation on x86_64
if it truly brings better archievement on arm64.

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> >> 2) Fallback behaviour is important to our distros. The reason is we will
> >> provide default value with crashkernel=xxxM along kernel of distros. In
> >> this case, we hope the reservation will succeed by all means. The ,high
> >> and ,low is an option if customer likes to take with expertise.
>
> OK, I got it.
>
> >>
> >> After going through arm64 memory init code, I got below summary about
> >> arm64_dma_phys_limit which is the first zone's upper limit. I think we
> >> can make use of it to facilitate to simplify code.
> >> ================================================================================
> >> DMA DMA32 NORMAL
> >> 1)Raspberry Pi4 0~1G 3G~4G (above 4G)
> >> 2)Normal machine 0~4G 0 (above 4G)
> >> 3)Special machine (above 4G)~MAX
> >> 4)No DMA|DMA32 (above 4G)~MAX
>
> arm64_memblock_init()
> reserve_crashkernel() --------------- 0a30c53573b0 ("arm64: mm: Move reserve_crashkernel() into mem_init()")
We don't need different code for this place of reservation as you are
doing in this patchset, since arm64_dma_phys_limit is initialized as
below. In fact, in arm64_memblock_init(), we have made memblock ready,
we can initialize arm64_dma_phys_limit as memblock_end_of_DRAM(). And if
memblock_start_of_DRAM() is bigger than 4G, we possibly can call
reserve_crashkernel() here too.

phys_addr_t __ro_after_init arm64_dma_phys_limit = PHYS_MASK + 1;

> paging_init() |
> map_mem() |
> unflatten_device_tree or ACPI | ---- //Raspberry Pi4 get dma zone base on dtb or ACPI
> bootmem_init(); | |
> zone_sizes_init() | |
> of_dma_get_max_cpu_address | ----|
> //Update arm64_dma_phys_limit | ----|
> reserve_crashkernel() <-------------- //Because we need arm64_dma_phys_limit to be updated above
> request_standard_resources()

Yeah, because arm64_dma_phys_limit is decided late in the 1) and 2) case
as I summarized, we need defer reserve_crashkernel() to bootmem_init(). But
arm64_dma_phys_limit could be 1G or 4G, that's why your optimization
about BLOCKING may not be right since you assume the 4G boundary, while
forgetting Raspberry Pi4 on which 1G is the boundary of low memory and
high memory. So separating out BLOCKING optimization can let us focus on
the crashkernel,high support.

>
> >>
> >> -------------------------------------------
> >> arm64_dma_phys_limit
> >> 1)Raspberry Pi4 1G
> >> 2)Normal machine 4G
> >> 3)Special machine MAX
> >> 4)No DMA|DMA32 MAX
> >>
> >> Note: 3)Special machine means the machine's starting physical address is above 4G.
> >> WHile 4)No DMA|DMA32 means kernel w/o CONFIG_ZONE_DMA|DMA32, and has
> >> IOMMU hardware supporting.
> >> ===================================================================================
> >>
> >> I made a draft patch based on this patchset, please feel free to check and
> >> see if it's OK, or anything missing or wrongly understood. I removed
> >> reserve_crashkernel_high() and only keep reserve_crashkernel() and
> >> reserve_crashkernel_low() as the v21 did.
> >
> > Sorry, forgot attaching the draft patch.
> >
> > By the way, we can also have a simple version with basic ,high, ,low
> > support, no fallback. We can add fallback and other optimization later.
> > This can be plan B.
>
> Yes, That's what Catalin suggested also.
>
> Hi, Baoquan He:
> Without optimization, the whole Patch 3-4 and 6-7 can be dropped.
>
> Process after abstraction:
> if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA) && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32)) {
> reserve_crashkernel()
> //block mapping
> } else {
> //page mapping
> reserve_crashkernel()
> }
>
> ------------ Simplified real-world process ---------
Yeah, this looks clearer. I would like to see a version with them.

> arm64_memblock_init()
Before reserve_crashkernel(), we can update arm64_dma_phys_limit
as memblock_end_of_DRAM() if CONFIG_ZONE_DMA|DMA32 is not enabled or
memblock_start_of_DRAM() is bigger than 4G.
Then we go with:
if (!arm64_dma_phys_limit)
reserve_crashkernel();

Just personal opinion, please check if it's appropriate to handle case
3) which has physical starting memory above 4G here.

> if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA) && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32))
> reserve_crashkernel()

> paging_init()
> map_mem()
> if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA) && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32))
> //block mapping
> else
> //page mapping
> unflatten_device_tree or ACPI
> bootmem_init();
> zone_sizes_init()
> of_dma_get_max_cpu_address
> //Update arm64_dma_phys_limit
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32))
> reserve_crashkernel()

The rest sounds good with optimization code split out.