linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3] x86/boot/KASLR: skip the specified crashkernel region

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Date:   Wed, 3 Apr 2019 11:10:49 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>,
        Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@...fujitsu.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] x86/boot/KASLR: skip the specified crashkernel region

On 04/03/19 at 10:58am, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 4:08 PM Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > +/* handle crashkernel=x@y or =range1:size1[,range2:size2,...]@offset options */
> > > +static void mem_avoid_specified_crashkernel_region(char *option)
> > > +{
> > > +     unsigned long long crash_size, crash_base = 0;
> > > +     char    *first_colon, *first_space, *cur = option;
> > > +
> >
> > Another thing which need be noticed is that you may only need to handle
> > when '@' is found. Otherwise just let it go. Right?
> >
> According to kernel's behavior, only the last "crashkernel=" option
> takes effect. Hence if no '@', then clearing mem_avoid

Here I mean that you can search '@' at the beginning if crashkernel is
found. Maybe no need to clear mem_avoid since it's global data, has been
initialized to 0 during loading. It's in BSS, right?

You don't have to search first colon or first space, then parse size of
crashkernel, and finally find out that it's only crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
style, no '@' specified. What do you think?

> 
> > > +     first_colon = strchr(option, ':');
> > > +     first_space = strchr(option, ' ');
> > > +     /* if contain ":" */
> > > +     if (first_colon && (!first_space || first_colon < first_space)) {
> > > +             int i;
> > > +             u64 total_sz = 0;
> > > +             struct boot_e820_entry *entry;
> > > +
> > > +             for (i = 0; i < boot_params->e820_entries; i++) {
> > > +                     entry = &boot_params->e820_table[i];
> > > +                     /* Skip non-RAM entries. */
> > > +                     if (entry->type != E820_TYPE_RAM)
> > > +                             continue;
> > > +                     total_sz += entry->size;
> > > +             }
> > > +             handle_crashkernel_mem(option, total_sz, &crash_size,
> > > +                     &crash_base);
> > > +     } else {
> > > +             crash_size = memparse(option, &cur);
> > > +             if (option == cur)
> > > +                     return;
> > > +             while (*cur && *cur != ' ' && *cur != '@')
> > > +                     cur++;
> > > +             if (*cur == '@') {
> > > +                     option = cur + 1;
> > > +                     crash_base = memparse(option, &cur);
> > > +             }
> > > +     }
> > > +     if (crash_base) {
> > > +             mem_avoid[MEM_AVOID_CRASHKERNEL].start = crash_base;
> > > +             mem_avoid[MEM_AVOID_CRASHKERNEL].size = crash_size;
> > > +     } else {
> > > +             /*
> > > +              * Clearing mem_avoid if no offset is given. This is consistent
> > > +              * with kernel, which uses the last crashkernel= option.
> > > +              */
> > > +             mem_avoid[MEM_AVOID_CRASHKERNEL].start = 0;
> > > +             mem_avoid[MEM_AVOID_CRASHKERNEL].size = 0;
> > > +     }
> > > +}