linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 RESEND 0/4] Support kdump for AMD secure memory encryption(SME)

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Message-ID: <1ae4de5d-4857-4804-10ae-d415e79d861e@redhat.com>
Date:   Sun, 7 Oct 2018 14:09:25 +0800
From:   lijiang <lijiang@...hat.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
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        jroedel@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 RESEND 0/4] Support kdump for AMD secure memory
 encryption(SME)

在 2018年10月06日 17:56, Borislav Petkov 写道:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 01:52:26PM +0800, lijiang wrote:
>>      b. add the parameter "mem_encrypt=on" for kernel command-line to grub.cfg, if
>>         this machine has SME feature. And also add crashkernel=xx, which will reserve
>>         memory for kdump.
> 
> Ok, I'm doing the simpler crashkernel= cmdline:
> 
> crashkernel=256M
> 
> That says:
> 
> [    0.011918] Reserving 256MB of memory at 640MB for crashkernel (System RAM: 262030MB)
> 
>> Step 5: reboot, and then load the crash kernel image and kdump initramfs.
>>
>>      a: When SME is enabled, i use this command to load them:
>>
>>         #kexec -p /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-rc6+ --initrd=/boot/initramfs-4.19.0-rc6+kdump.img --command-line="root=/dev/mapper/rhel_hp--dl385g10--03-root ro rd.lvm.lv=rhel_hp-dl385g10-03/root rd.lvm.lv=rhel_hp-dl385g10-03/swap mem_encrypt=on console=ttyS0,115200n81 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 earlyprintk=serial debug irqpoll nr_cpus=1 reset_devices cgroup_disable=memory mce=off numa=off udev.children-max=2 panic=10 rootflags=nofail acpi_no_memhotplug transparent_hugepage=never disable_cpu_apicid=0"
> 
> Ok, did that, my cmdline is:
> 
> ~/bpetkov/src/kexec-tools/build/sbin/kexec -p /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-rc6+ --initrd=/boot/initrd-4.19.0-rc6+ --command-line="root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--010236012132--vg-leap15 rd.lvm.lv=ubuntu--010236012132--vg-leap15/root rd.lvm.lv=ubuntu--010236012132--vg-leap15/swap splash=silent showopts console=ttyS5,115200 console=tty0 debug ignore_loglevel log_buf_len=16M nr_cpus=1 irqpoll maxcpus=1 reset_devices vga=normal mem_encrypt=on LANG=en_US.UTF-8 earlyprintk=serial cgroup_disable=memory mce=off numa=off udev.children-max=2 panic=10 rootflags=nofail acpi_no_memhotplug transparent_hugepage=never disable_cpu_apicid=0"
> 
> Verified it loaded ok:
> 
> $ grep . /sys/kernel/kexec_*
> /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded:1
> /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size:268435456
> /sys/kernel/kexec_loaded:0
> 
>> Step 6: trigger panic by sysrq
>>         #echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
> 
> Did that and I got into the kdump kernel with SME. So I'd guess your kdump
> kernel command line was needed - I was missing a bunch of switches and
> remote-debugging a box kexecing is not fun.
> 
> So thanks a lot for the detailed steps, I'm putting them to my notes.
> 

It's my pleasure.
Also thanks for your patience and help.

Regards,
Lianbo