linux-kernel - [Patch] kexec: increase max of kexec segments and use dynamic allocation

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Message-Id: <20100722061810.5659.87609.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:13:55 -0400
From:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	nhorman@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: [Patch] kexec: increase max of kexec segments and use dynamic allocation


Currently KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX is only 16 which is too small for machine with
many memory ranges. Increase this hard limit to 1024 which is reasonably large,
and change ->segment from a static array to a dynamically allocated memory.

Cc: nhorman@...hat.com
Cc: ebiederm@...ssion.com
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>

---
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
index ed31a29..f115585 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -131,10 +131,7 @@ static void copy_segments(unsigned long ind)
 void kexec_copy_flush(struct kimage *image)
 {
 	long i, nr_segments = image->nr_segments;
-	struct  kexec_segment ranges[KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX];
-
-	/* save the ranges on the stack to efficiently flush the icache */
-	memcpy(ranges, image->segment, sizeof(ranges));
+	struct  kexec_segment range;
 
 	/*
 	 * After this call we may not use anything allocated in dynamic
@@ -148,9 +145,11 @@ void kexec_copy_flush(struct kimage *image)
 	 * we need to clear the icache for all dest pages sometime,
 	 * including ones that were in place on the original copy
 	 */
-	for (i = 0; i < nr_segments; i++)
-		flush_icache_range((unsigned long)__va(ranges[i].mem),
-			(unsigned long)__va(ranges[i].mem + ranges[i].memsz));
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_segments; i++) {
+		memcpy(&range, &image->segment[i], sizeof(range));
+		flush_icache_range((unsigned long)__va(range.mem),
+			(unsigned long)__va(range.mem + range.memsz));
+	}
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
index 03e8e8d..26b70ff 100644
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ typedef unsigned long kimage_entry_t;
 #define IND_DONE         0x4
 #define IND_SOURCE       0x8
 
-#define KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX 16
+#define KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX 1024
 struct kexec_segment {
 	void __user *buf;
 	size_t bufsz;
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ struct kimage {
 	struct page *swap_page;
 
 	unsigned long nr_segments;
-	struct kexec_segment segment[KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX];
+	struct kexec_segment *segment;
 
 	struct list_head control_pages;
 	struct list_head dest_pages;
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 131b170..3f97309 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -131,6 +131,11 @@ static int do_kimage_alloc(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
 	if (!image)
 		goto out;
 
+	image->segment = kzalloc(nr_segments * sizeof(struct kexec_segment),
+				 GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!image->segment)
+		goto out;
+
 	image->head = 0;
 	image->entry = &image->head;
 	image->last_entry = &image->head;
@@ -216,8 +221,10 @@ static int do_kimage_alloc(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
 out:
 	if (result == 0)
 		*rimage = image;
-	else
+	else if (image) {
+		kfree(image->segment);
 		kfree(image);
+	}
 
 	return result;
 
@@ -261,8 +268,10 @@ static int kimage_normal_alloc(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
  out:
 	if (result == 0)
 		*rimage = image;
-	else
+	else if (image) {
+		kfree(image->segment);
 		kfree(image);
+	}
 
 	return result;
 }
@@ -330,8 +339,10 @@ static int kimage_crash_alloc(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
 out:
 	if (result == 0)
 		*rimage = image;
-	else
+	else if (image) {
+		kfree(image->segment);
 		kfree(image);
+	}
 
 	return result;
 }
@@ -656,6 +667,7 @@ static void kimage_free(struct kimage *image)
 
 	/* Free the kexec control pages... */
 	kimage_free_page_list(&image->control_pages);
+	kfree(image->segment);
 	kfree(image);
 }
 
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