linux-kernel - [PATCH v7 RESEND 2/4] kexec: allocate unencrypted control pages for kdump in case SME is enabled

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Message-Id: <20180927071954.29615-3-lijiang@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:19:52 +0800
From:   Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kexec@...ts.infradead.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
        hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, thomas.lendacky@....com,
        bhelgaas@...gle.com, baiyaowei@...s.chinamobile.com, tiwai@...e.de,
        bp@...e.de, brijesh.singh@....com, dyoung@...hat.com,
        bhe@...hat.com, jroedel@...e.de
Subject: [PATCH v7 RESEND 2/4] kexec: allocate unencrypted control pages for kdump in case SME is enabled

When SME is enabled in the first kernel, we will allocate unencrypted pages
for kdump in order to be able to boot the kdump kernel like kexec.

Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
---
 kernel/kexec_core.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index 23a83a4da38a..e7efcd1a977b 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -471,6 +471,16 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_crash_control_pages(struct kimage *image,
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (pages) {
+		/*
+		 * For kdump, we need to ensure that these pages are
+		 * unencrypted pages if SME is enabled.
+		 * By the way, it is unnecessary to call the arch_
+		 * kexec_pre_free_pages(), which will make the code
+		 * become more simple.
+		 */
+		arch_kexec_post_alloc_pages(page_address(pages), 1 << order, 0);
+	}
 	return pages;
 }
 
@@ -867,6 +877,7 @@ static int kimage_load_crash_segment(struct kimage *image,
 			result  = -ENOMEM;
 			goto out;
 		}
+		arch_kexec_post_alloc_pages(page_address(page), 1, 0);
 		ptr = kmap(page);
 		ptr += maddr & ~PAGE_MASK;
 		mchunk = min_t(size_t, mbytes,
@@ -884,6 +895,7 @@ static int kimage_load_crash_segment(struct kimage *image,
 			result = copy_from_user(ptr, buf, uchunk);
 		kexec_flush_icache_page(page);
 		kunmap(page);
+		arch_kexec_pre_free_pages(page_address(page), 1);
 		if (result) {
 			result = -EFAULT;
 			goto out;
-- 
2.17.1