linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] x86/kexec/64: Error out if try to jump to old 4-level kernel from 5-level kernel

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Date:   Wed, 22 May 2019 12:50:33 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...nel.org,
        bp@...en8.de, hpa@...or.com, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
        x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] x86/kexec/64: Error out if try to jump to old
 4-level kernel from 5-level kernel

On 05/22/19 at 11:20am, Dave Young wrote:
> How about the userspace kexec-tools?  It needs a similar detection, but
> I'm not sure how to detect paging mode, maybe some sysfs entry or
> vmcoreinfo in /proc/vmcore

In usersapce, I plan to parse /proc/kcore to get the starting address
of page_offset or vmalloc. You can see the different level has different
value range.

4-level:
   ffff888000000000 | -119.5  TB | ffffc87fffffffff |   64 TB | direct mapping of all physical memory (page_offset_base)
   ffffc88000000000 |  -55.5  TB | ffffc8ffffffffff |  0.5 TB | ... unused hole
   ffffc90000000000 |  -55    TB | ffffe8ffffffffff |   32 TB | vmalloc/ioremap space (vmalloc_base)
   ffffe90000000000 |  -23    TB | ffffe9ffffffffff |    1 TB | ... unused hole
   ffffea0000000000 |  -22    TB | ffffeaffffffffff |    1 TB | virtual memory map (vmemmap_base)


5-level:
   ff11000000000000 |  -59.75 PB | ff90ffffffffffff |   32 PB | direct mapping of all physical memory (page_offset_base)
   ff91000000000000 |  -27.75 PB | ff9fffffffffffff | 3.75 PB | ... unused hole
   ffa0000000000000 |  -24    PB | ffd1ffffffffffff | 12.5 PB | vmalloc/ioremap space (vmalloc_base)
   ffd2000000000000 |  -11.5  PB | ffd3ffffffffffff |  0.5 PB | ... unused hole
   ffd4000000000000 |  -11    PB | ffd5ffffffffffff |  0.5 PB | virtual memory map (vmemmap_base)
> 
> 
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c
> > index 22f60dd26460..858cc892672f 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c
> > @@ -321,6 +321,11 @@ static int bzImage64_probe(const char *buf, unsigned long len)
> >  		return ret;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	if (!(header->xloadflags & XLF_5LEVEL) && pgtable_l5_enabled()) {
> > +		pr_err("Can not jump to old 4-level kernel from 5-level kernel.\n");
> 
> 4-level kernel sounds not very clear, maybe something like below?
> 
> "5-level paging enabled, can not kexec into an old kernel without 5-level
> paging facility"?

Oops, tglx commented on this message. He suggested changing it like:

	"bzImage cannot handle 5-level paging mode\n"

I forgot updating this part. Any one is fine to me. Will update.

Thanks
Baoquan