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Message-ID: <20171113092624.GG10474@x1>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:26:24 +0800
From: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com,
tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, keescook@...omium.org,
yasu.isimatu@...il.com, indou.takao@...fujitsu.com,
caoj.fnst@...fujitsu.com, douly.fnst@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] kaslr: select the memory region in immovable node
to process
On 11/13/17 at 05:18pm, Chao Fan wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 04:31:31PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> >On 11/01/17 at 07:32pm, Chao Fan wrote:
> >> Compare the region of memmap entry and immovable_mem, then choose the
> >> intersection to process_mem_region.
> >>
> >> Since the interrelationship between e820 or efi entries and memory
> >> region in immovable_mem is different:
> >> One memory region in one node may contain several entries of e820 or
> >> efi sometimes, and one entry of e820 or efi may contain the memory in
> >> different nodes sometimes.
> >> It may split one node or one entry to several regions.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
> >> ---
> >> arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> >> 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
> >> index 0a591c0023f1..fcd640fdeaed 100644
> >> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
> >> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
> >> @@ -634,6 +634,54 @@ static void process_mem_region(struct mem_vector *entry,
> >> }
> >> }
> >>
> >> +static bool select_immovable_node(struct mem_vector region,
> >> + unsigned long long minimum,
> >> + unsigned long long image_size)
> >> +{
> >
> >About this patch, I just want to notice two things:
> >1) From the current code, 'movable_node' kernel parameter is exclusive.
> >In find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes(), you can see that 'kernelcore' and
> >'movablecore' will be ignored as long as 'movable_node' is specified.
> >Please also consider this in your code here. If 'movable_node' has to be
> >specified too, and need skip the kernel mirror handling.
> >
>
> Thanks for the notice, I will add the similar operation.
No, I meant if movable_node is specified, we have to ignore
'kernelcore=', then we may need skip the kernel mirror handling. Since
kernel mirror is enabled by 'kernelcore=mirror'.
>
> >2)process_mem_region() is a key function to process the available memory
> >regions. Please don't make another process_mem_region() like below. You
> >can write a small helper function to find the immovable_mem[] which is
> >intersecting with the passed in memory region and use clamp() to get
> >the real available region. You 'REALLY' don't need to split the region
> >in your so called 'select_immovable_node()' function here.
> >
>
> OK, I will try to make a new method, which is smaller and better to
> filter the regions.
>
> Thanks,
> Chao Fan
>
> >PLEASE elaborate more on these details before post.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Baoquan
> >
> >> + int i;
> >> +
> >> + /* If no immovable_mem stored, use region directly */
> >> + if (num_immovable_region == 0) {
> >> + process_mem_region(®ion, minimum, image_size);
> >> +
> >> + if (slot_area_index == MAX_SLOT_AREA) {
> >> + debug_putstr("Aborted memmap scan (slot_areas full)!\n");
> >> + return 1;
> >> + }
> >> + } else {
> >> + /*
> >> + * Walk all immovable regions, and filter the intersection
> >> + * to process_mem_region.
> >> + */
> >> + for (i = 0; i < num_immovable_region; i++) {
> >> + struct mem_vector entry;
> >> + unsigned long long start, end, select_end, region_end;
> >> +
> >> + region_end = region.start + region.size - 1;
> >> + start = immovable_mem[i].start;
> >> + end = start + immovable_mem[i].size - 1;
> >> +
> >> + if (region_end < start || region.start > end)
> >> + continue;
> >> +
> >> + /* May split one region to several entries. */
> >> + entry.start = start > region.start ?
> >> + start : region.start;
> >> + select_end = end > region_end ? region_end : end;
> >> +
> >> + entry.size = select_end - entry.start + 1;
> >> +
> >> + process_mem_region(&entry, minimum, image_size);
> >> +
> >> + if (slot_area_index == MAX_SLOT_AREA) {
> >> + debug_putstr("Aborted memmap scan (slot_areas full)!\n");
> >> + return 1;
> >> + }
> >> + }
> >> + }
> >> + return 0;
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> #ifdef CONFIG_EFI
> >> /*
> >> * Returns true if mirror region found (and must have been processed
> >> @@ -699,11 +747,9 @@ process_efi_entries(unsigned long minimum, unsigned long image_size)
> >>
> >> region.start = md->phys_addr;
> >> region.size = md->num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
> >> - process_mem_region(®ion, minimum, image_size);
> >> - if (slot_area_index == MAX_SLOT_AREA) {
> >> - debug_putstr("Aborted EFI scan (slot_areas full)!\n");
> >> +
> >> + if (select_immovable_node(region, minimum, image_size))
> >> break;
> >> - }
> >> }
> >> return true;
> >> }
> >> @@ -730,11 +776,9 @@ static void process_e820_entries(unsigned long minimum,
> >> continue;
> >> region.start = entry->addr;
> >> region.size = entry->size;
> >> - process_mem_region(®ion, minimum, image_size);
> >> - if (slot_area_index == MAX_SLOT_AREA) {
> >> - debug_putstr("Aborted e820 scan (slot_areas full)!\n");
> >> +
> >> + if (select_immovable_node(region, minimum, image_size))
> >> break;
> >> - }
> >> }
> >> }
> >>
> >> --
> >> 2.13.6
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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