linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kexec: dump kmessage before machine

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Date:   Mon, 8 Jun 2020 13:37:42 +0530
From:   Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@...hat.com>
To:     Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
Cc:     James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, sashal@...nel.org,
        pmladek@...e.com, Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, anton@...msg.org,
        ccross@...roid.com, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        kexec mailing list <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec: dump kmessage before machine_kexec

Hi Pavel,

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 1:16 AM Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com> wrote:
>
> kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_SHUTDOWN) is called before
> machine_restart(), machine_halt(), machine_power_off(), the only one that
> is missing is  machine_kexec().
>
> The dmesg output that it contains can be used to study the shutdown
> performance of both kernel and systemd during kexec reboot.
>
> Here is example of dmesg data collected after kexec:
>
> root@...at-cp22:~# cat /sys/fs/pstore/dmesg-ramoops-0 | tail
> ...
> <6>[   70.914592] psci: CPU3 killed (polled 0 ms)
> <5>[   70.915705] CPU4: shutdown
> <6>[   70.916643] psci: CPU4 killed (polled 4 ms)
> <5>[   70.917715] CPU5: shutdown
> <6>[   70.918725] psci: CPU5 killed (polled 0 ms)
> <5>[   70.919704] CPU6: shutdown
> <6>[   70.920726] psci: CPU6 killed (polled 4 ms)
> <5>[   70.921642] CPU7: shutdown
> <6>[   70.922650] psci: CPU7 killed (polled 0 ms)
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
> ---
>  kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
> index c19c0dad1ebe..50027f759a97 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
> @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
>  #include <linux/compiler.h>
>  #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
>  #include <linux/frame.h>
> +#include <linux/kmsg_dump.h>
>
>  #include <asm/page.h>
>  #include <asm/sections.h>
> @@ -1181,6 +1182,7 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
>                 machine_shutdown();
>         }
>
> +       kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_SHUTDOWN);
>         machine_kexec(kexec_image);
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
> --
> 2.25.1

LGTM, so:

Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@...hat.com>

Thanks.