linux-kernel - Re: [RFC Patch 1/2] kexec: show memory info in /proc/iomem

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Date:	Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:49:52 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 1/2] kexec: show memory info in /proc/iomem

Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com> writes:

> This patch implements showing kexec memory area via /proc/iomem.
> For example, with this patch we can see:
>
> # cat /proc/iomem
> ...
> 00100000-7ffeffff : System RAM
>   01000000-012e1424 : Kernel code
>   012e1425-015f1aff : Kernel data
>   0166b000-01b4b88f : Kernel bss
>   02000000-083fffff : Crash kernel
>     02000000-028fffff : Used
>     02900000-083fffff : Unused
> ...
>
> So that user can know how much memory the kernel uses for crash kernel.

Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

We can inspect the image we are going to load to get this information.
In fact /sbin/kexec already inspects the image we are going to load
to get this information.  Putting this in the kernel adds kernel
complexity for no gain.


>
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>
> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
>
>
> ---
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
> index f336e21..01673ad 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -931,6 +931,8 @@ static int kimage_load_segment(struct kimage *image,
>   */
>  struct kimage *kexec_image;
>  struct kimage *kexec_crash_image;
> +struct resource *kexec_res = NULL;
> +struct resource *kexec_free_res = NULL;
>  
>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(kexec_mutex);
>  
> @@ -939,6 +941,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned long, entry, unsigned long, nr_segments,
>  {
>  	struct kimage **dest_image, *image;
>  	int result;
> +	unsigned long kexec_start = crashk_res.start;
> +	unsigned long kexec_end = kexec_start;
>  
>  	/* We only trust the superuser with rebooting the system. */
>  	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_BOOT))
> @@ -994,6 +998,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned long, entry, unsigned long, nr_segments,
>  			kimage_free(xchg(&kexec_crash_image, NULL));
>  			result = kimage_crash_alloc(&image, entry,
>  						     nr_segments, segments);
> +			kexec_end += KEXEC_CONTROL_PAGE_SIZE;
>  		}
>  		if (result)
>  			goto out;
> @@ -1008,6 +1013,42 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned long, entry, unsigned long, nr_segments,
>  			result = kimage_load_segment(image, &image->segment[i]);
>  			if (result)
>  				goto out;
> +			if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH)
> +				kexec_end += image->segment[i].memsz;
> +		}
> +		if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) {
> +			if (kexec_res) {
> +				release_resource(kexec_res);
> +				release_resource(kexec_free_res);
> +				kfree(kexec_res);
> +				kfree(kexec_free_res);
> +			}
> +			kexec_res = kzalloc(sizeof(*kexec_res), GFP_KERNEL);
> +			if (!kexec_res) {
> +				result = -ENOMEM;
> +				goto out;
> +			}
> +			kexec_free_res = kzalloc(sizeof(*kexec_free_res), GFP_KERNEL);
> +			if (!kexec_free_res) {
> +				result = -ENOMEM;
> +				goto out_free;
> +			}
> +			kexec_res->name = "Used";
> +			kexec_res->start = kexec_start;
> +			kexec_res->end = roundup(kexec_end, 1<<20) - 1;
> +			kexec_res->flags = IORESOURCE_BUSY | IORESOURCE_MEM;
> +			if (insert_resource(&crashk_res, kexec_res)) {
> +				result = -EBUSY;
> +				goto out_free;
> +			}
> +			kexec_free_res->name = "Unused";
> +			kexec_free_res->start = kexec_res->end + 1;
> +			kexec_free_res->end = crashk_res.end;
> +			kexec_free_res->flags = IORESOURCE_BUSY | IORESOURCE_MEM;
> +			if (insert_resource(&crashk_res, kexec_free_res)) {
> +				result = -EBUSY;
> +				goto out_release;
> +			}
>  		}
>  		kimage_terminate(image);
>  	}
> @@ -1019,6 +1060,13 @@ out:
>  	kimage_free(image);
>  
>  	return result;
> +
> +out_free:
> +	kfree(kexec_free_res);
> +	kfree(kexec_res);
> +out_release:
> +	release_resource(kexec_res);
> +	goto out;
>  }
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
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