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Message-Id: <975190aa-fff4-6a1f-70b5-27341cb70f97@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:20:53 +0530
From:   Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>,
        Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Scott Wood <oss@...error.net>,
        "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@...il.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        "Sylvain 'ythier' Hitier" <sylvain.hitier@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@...com>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Steven Rostedt," <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Ilya Matveychikov <matvejchikov@...il.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] powerpc/fadump: reduce memory consumption for
 capture kernel

Hi Michal,


Thanks for the patches. I tried testing with the patches:

[    0.000000] fadump: Firmware-assisted dump is active.
[    0.000000] fadump: Modifying command line to enforce the additional 
parameters passed through 'fadump_extra_args='
[    0.000000] fadump: Original command line: 
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinux-4.13.0-rc1-bz155783+ root=/dev/mapper/rhel-root ro 
crashkernel=2048M fadump=on fadump_reserve_mem=1024M 
"fadump_extra_args=nr_cpus=1 numa=off udev.childern-max=2" 
rd.lvm.lv=rhel/root rd.lvm.lv=rhel/swap
[    0.000000] fadump: Modified command line: 
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinux-4.13.0-rc1-bz155783+ root=/dev/mapper/rhel-root ro 
crashkernel=2048M fadump=on fadump_reserve_mem=1024M "fadump_extra_args 
nr_cpus=1 numa=off udev.childern-max=2" rd.lvm.lv=rhel/root 
rd.lvm.lv=rhel/swap

Looks like the quotes are retained not enforcing the parameters...

I am yet to test the patches in other scenarios though..


Thanks

Hari


On Friday 18 August 2017 01:44 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> From: Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> With fadump (dump capture) kernel booting like a regular kernel, it needs
> almost the same amount of memory to boot as the production kernel, which is
> unwarranted for a dump capture kernel. But with no option to disable some
> of the unnecessary subsystems in fadump kernel, that much memory is wasted
> on fadump, depriving the production kernel of that memory.
>
> Introduce kernel parameter 'fadump_extra_args=' that would take regular
> parameters as a space separated quoted string, to be enforced when fadump
> is active. This 'fadump_extra_args=' parameter can be leveraged to pass
> parameters like nr_cpus=1, cgroup_disable=memory and numa=off, to disable
> unwarranted resources/subsystems.
>
> Also, ensure the log "Firmware-assisted dump is active" is printed early
> in the boot process to put the subsequent fadump messages in context.
>
> Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
> ---
> Changes from v6:
> Correct and simplify quote handling. Ideally I would like to extend
> parse_args to give the length of the original quoted value to callback.
> However, parse_args removes at most one doubel-quote from the start and
> one from the end so that is easy to detect. Otherwise all other users
> will have to be updated to trash the new argument.
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h |   2 +
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c      | 109 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c        |   7 +++
>   3 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h
> index ce88bbe1d809..98ae00943fb3 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h
> @@ -208,11 +208,13 @@ extern int early_init_dt_scan_fw_dump(unsigned long node,
>   		const char *uname, int depth, void *data);
>   extern int fadump_reserve_mem(void);
>   extern int setup_fadump(void);
> +extern void enforce_fadump_extra_args(char *cmdline);
>   extern int is_fadump_active(void);
>   extern void crash_fadump(struct pt_regs *, const char *);
>   extern void fadump_cleanup(void);
>
>   #else	/* CONFIG_FA_DUMP */
> +static inline void enforce_fadump_extra_args(char *cmdline) { }
>   static inline int is_fadump_active(void) { return 0; }
>   static inline void crash_fadump(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *str) { }
>   #endif
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> index dc0c49cfd90a..a1614d9b8a21 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> @@ -78,8 +78,10 @@ int __init early_init_dt_scan_fw_dump(unsigned long node,
>   	 * dump data waiting for us.
>   	 */
>   	fdm_active = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "ibm,kernel-dump", NULL);
> -	if (fdm_active)
> +	if (fdm_active) {
> +		pr_info("Firmware-assisted dump is active.\n");
>   		fw_dump.dump_active = 1;
> +	}
>
>   	/* Get the sizes required to store dump data for the firmware provided
>   	 * dump sections.
> @@ -332,8 +334,11 @@ int __init fadump_reserve_mem(void)
>   {
>   	unsigned long base, size, memory_boundary;
>
> -	if (!fw_dump.fadump_enabled)
> +	if (!fw_dump.fadump_enabled) {
> +		if (fw_dump.dump_active)
> +			pr_warn("Firmware-assisted dump was active but kernel booted with fadump disabled!\n");
>   		return 0;
> +	}
>
>   	if (!fw_dump.fadump_supported) {
>   		printk(KERN_INFO "Firmware-assisted dump is not supported on"
> @@ -373,7 +378,6 @@ int __init fadump_reserve_mem(void)
>   		memory_boundary = memblock_end_of_DRAM();
>
>   	if (fw_dump.dump_active) {
> -		printk(KERN_INFO "Firmware-assisted dump is active.\n");
>   		/*
>   		 * If last boot has crashed then reserve all the memory
>   		 * above boot_memory_size so that we don't touch it until
> @@ -460,6 +464,105 @@ static int __init early_fadump_reserve_mem(char *p)
>   }
>   early_param("fadump_reserve_mem", early_fadump_reserve_mem);
>
> +#define FADUMP_EXTRA_ARGS_PARAM		"fadump_extra_args="
> +#define FADUMP_EXTRA_ARGS_LEN		(strlen(FADUMP_EXTRA_ARGS_PARAM) - 1)
> +
> +struct param_info {
> +	char		*cmdline;
> +	char		*tmp_cmdline;
> +	int		 shortening;
> +};
> +
> +static void __init fadump_update_params(struct param_info *param_info,
> +					char *param, char *val)
> +{
> +	ptrdiff_t param_offset = param - param_info->tmp_cmdline;
> +	size_t vallen = val ? strlen(val) : 0;
> +	char *tgt = param_info->cmdline + param_offset +
> +		FADUMP_EXTRA_ARGS_LEN - param_info->shortening;
> +	int shortening = 0;
> +
> +	if (!val)
> +		return;
> +
> +	/* remove '=' */
> +	*tgt++ = ' ';
> +
> +	/* next_arg removes one leading and one trailing '"' */
> +	if (*tgt == '"')
> +		shortening += 1;
> +	if (*(tgt + vallen + shortening) == '"')
> +		shortening += 1;
> +
> +	/* remove one leading and one trailing quote if both are present */
> +	if ((val[0] == '"') && (val[vallen - 1] == '"')) {
> +		shortening += 2;
> +		vallen -= 2;
> +		val++;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* some characters were removed - move the trailing part of cmdline */
> +	if (shortening) {
> +		char *src;
> +
> +		strncpy(tgt, val, vallen);
> +		tgt += vallen;
> +		src = tgt + shortening;
> +		memmove(tgt, src, strlen(src) + 1);
> +	}
> +
> +	param_info->shortening += shortening;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Reworks command line parameters and splits 'fadump_extra_args=' param
> + * to enforce the parameters passed through it
> + */
> +static int __init fadump_rework_cmdline_params(char *param, char *val,
> +					       const char *unused, void *arg)
> +{
> +	struct param_info *param_info = (struct param_info *)arg;
> +
> +	if (strncmp(param, FADUMP_EXTRA_ARGS_PARAM,
> +		     strlen(FADUMP_EXTRA_ARGS_PARAM) - 1))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	fadump_update_params(param_info, param, val);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Replace every occurrence of 'fadump_extra_args="param1 param2 param3"'
> + * in cmdline with 'fadump_extra_args param1 param2 param3' by stripping
> + * off '=' and quotes, if any. This ensures that the additional parameters
> + * passed with 'fadump_extra_args=' are enforced.
> + */
> +void __init enforce_fadump_extra_args(char *cmdline)
> +{
> +	static char tmp_cmdline[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE] __initdata;
> +	static char init_cmdline[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE] __initdata;
> +	struct param_info param_info;
> +
> +	if (strstr(cmdline, FADUMP_EXTRA_ARGS_PARAM) == NULL)
> +		return;
> +
> +	pr_info("Modifying command line to enforce the additional parameters passed through 'fadump_extra_args='");
> +
> +	param_info.cmdline = cmdline;
> +	param_info.tmp_cmdline = tmp_cmdline;
> +	param_info.shortening = 0;
> +
> +	strlcpy(init_cmdline, cmdline, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
> +
> +	strlcpy(tmp_cmdline, cmdline, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
> +	parse_args("fadump params", tmp_cmdline, NULL, 0, 0, 0,
> +			&param_info, &fadump_rework_cmdline_params);
> +
> +	pr_info("Original command line: %s\n", init_cmdline);
> +	pr_info("Modified command line: %s\n", cmdline);
> +}
> +
>   static int register_fw_dump(struct fadump_mem_struct *fdm)
>   {
>   	int rc, err;
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> index f83056297441..2e6f40217266 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> @@ -693,6 +693,13 @@ void __init early_init_devtree(void *params)
>   	of_scan_flat_dt(early_init_dt_scan_root, NULL);
>   	of_scan_flat_dt(early_init_dt_scan_memory_ppc, NULL);
>
> +	/*
> +	 * Look for 'fadump_extra_args=' parameter and enfore the additional
> +	 * parameters passed to it if fadump is active.
> +	 */
> +	if (is_fadump_active())
> +		enforce_fadump_extra_args(boot_command_line);
> +
>   	parse_early_param();
>
>   	/* make sure we've parsed cmdline for mem= before this */

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