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Message-ID: <4ca0e693-5ee0-9ebc-64a3-e902e60c119f@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 14:07:32 -0600
From: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@...cle.com>
To: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
kexec@...ts.infradead.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
dyoung@...hat.com, vgoyal@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
hpa@...or.com, nramas@...ux.microsoft.com, thomas.lendacky@....com,
robh@...nel.org, efault@....de, rppt@...nel.org,
konrad.wilk@...cle.com, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/10] crash hp: generic crash hotplug support
infrastructure
On 2/22/22 21:59, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 02/09/22 at 02:57pm, Eric DeVolder wrote:
>> This patch introduces a generic crash hot plug/unplug infrastructure
>> for CPU and memory changes. Upon CPU and memory changes, a generic
>> crash_hotplug_handler() obtains the appropriate lock, does some
>> important house keeping and then dispatches the hot plug/unplug event
>> to the architecture specific arch_crash_hotplug_handler(), and when
>> that handler returns, the lock is released.
>>
>> This patch modifies crash_core.c to implement a subsys_initcall()
>> function that installs handlers for hot plug/unplug events. If CPU
>> hotplug is enabled, then cpuhp_setup_state() is invoked to register a
>> handler for CPU changes. Similarly, if memory hotplug is enabled, then
>> register_memory_notifier() is invoked to install a handler for memory
>> changes. These handlers in turn invoke the common generic handler
>> crash_hotplug_handler().
>>
>> On the CPU side, cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls() is invoked with parameter
>> CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN. While this works, when a CPU is being unplugged,
>> the CPU still shows up in foreach_present_cpu() during the regeneration
>> of the new CPU list, thus the need to explicitly check and exclude the
>> soon-to-be offlined CPU in crash_prepare_elf64_headers().
>>
>> On the memory side, each un/plugged memory block passes through the
>> handler. For example, if a 1GiB DIMM is hotplugged, that generate 8
>> memory events, one for each 128MiB memblock.
>
> This looks good to me. As I commented in patch 3, these both may need be
> merged.
OK, merged with 3.
eric
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@...cle.com>
>> ---
>> kernel/crash_core.c | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 104 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
>> index 0ff06d0698ad..524470e18883 100644
>> --- a/kernel/crash_core.c
>> +++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
>> @@ -10,12 +10,16 @@
>> #include <linux/utsname.h>
>> #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>> #include <linux/highmem.h>
>> +#include <linux/memory.h>
>> +#include <linux/cpuhotplug.h>
>>
>> #include <asm/page.h>
>> #include <asm/sections.h>
>>
>> #include <crypto/sha1.h>
>>
>> +#include "kexec_internal.h"
>> +
>> /* vmcoreinfo stuff */
>> unsigned char *vmcoreinfo_data;
>> size_t vmcoreinfo_size;
>> @@ -521,5 +525,105 @@ void unmap_crash_pages(void **ptr)
>> *ptr = NULL;
>> }
>> }
>> +
>> +void __weak arch_crash_hotplug_handler(struct kimage *image,
>> + unsigned int hp_action, unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
>> +{
>> + pr_warn("crash hp: %s not implemented", __func__);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void crash_hotplug_handler(unsigned int hp_action,
>> + unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
>> +{
>> + /* Obtain lock while changing crash information */
>> + if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex))
>> + return;
>> +
>> + /* Check kdump is loaded */
>> + if (kexec_crash_image) {
>> + pr_debug("crash hp: hp_action %u, a %lu, b %lu", hp_action,
>> + a, b);
>> +
>> + /* Needed in order for the segments to be updated */
>> + arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres();
>> +
>> + /* Flag to differentiate between normal load and hotplug */
>> + kexec_crash_image->hotplug_event = true;
>> +
>> + /* Now invoke arch-specific update handler */
>> + arch_crash_hotplug_handler(kexec_crash_image, hp_action, a, b);
>> +
>> + /* No longer handling a hotplug event */
>> + kexec_crash_image->hotplug_event = false;
>> +
>> + /* Change back to read-only */
>> + arch_kexec_protect_crashkres();
>> + }
>> +
>> + /* Release lock now that update complete */
>> + mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
>> +}
>> +
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG)
>> +static int crash_memhp_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
>> + unsigned long val, void *v)
>> +{
>> + struct memory_notify *mhp = v;
>> + unsigned long start, end;
>> +
>> + start = mhp->start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
>> + end = ((mhp->start_pfn + mhp->nr_pages) << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1;
>> +
>> + switch (val) {
>> + case MEM_ONLINE:
>> + crash_hotplug_handler(KEXEC_CRASH_HP_ADD_MEMORY,
>> + start, end-start);
>> + break;
>> +
>> + case MEM_OFFLINE:
>> + crash_hotplug_handler(KEXEC_CRASH_HP_REMOVE_MEMORY,
>> + start, end-start);
>> + break;
>> + }
>> + return NOTIFY_OK;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static struct notifier_block crash_memhp_nb = {
>> + .notifier_call = crash_memhp_notifier,
>> + .priority = 0
>> +};
>> #endif
>>
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU)
>> +static int crash_cpuhp_online(unsigned int cpu)
>> +{
>> + crash_hotplug_handler(KEXEC_CRASH_HP_ADD_CPU, cpu, 0);
>> + return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static int crash_cpuhp_offline(unsigned int cpu)
>> +{
>> + crash_hotplug_handler(KEXEC_CRASH_HP_REMOVE_CPU, cpu, 0);
>> + return 0;
>> +}
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +static int __init crash_hotplug_init(void)
>> +{
>> + int result = 0;
>> +
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG)
>> + register_memory_notifier(&crash_memhp_nb);
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU)
>> + result = cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN,
>> + "crash/cpuhp",
>> + crash_cpuhp_online, crash_cpuhp_offline);
>> +#endif
>> +
>> + return result;
>> +}
>> +
>> +subsys_initcall(crash_hotplug_init);
>> +#endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG */
>> --
>> 2.27.0
>>
>
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