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Message-ID: <Yx6rwt+nMybIzlAz@MiWiFi-R3L-srv>
Date:   Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:47:14 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@...cle.com>, bp@...en8.de,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, x86@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.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, david@...hat.com,
        sourabhjain@...ux.ibm.com, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
        boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 0/7] crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory hot
 un/plug

On 09/09/22 at 05:05pm, Eric DeVolder wrote:
> When the kdump service is loaded, if a CPU or memory is hot
> un/plugged, the crash elfcorehdr, which describes the CPUs
> and memory in the system, must also be updated, else the resulting
> vmcore is inaccurate (eg. missing either CPU context or memory
> regions).
> 
> The current solution utilizes udev to initiate an unload-then-reload
> of the kdump image (e. kernel, initrd, boot_params, puratory and
> elfcorehdr) by the userspace kexec utility. In previous posts I have
> outlined the significant performance problems related to offloading
> this activity to userspace.
> 
> This patchset introduces a generic crash hot un/plug handler that
> registers with the CPU and memory notifiers. Upon CPU or memory
> changes, this generic handler is invoked and performs important
> housekeeping, for example obtaining the appropriate lock, and then
> invokes an architecture specific handler to do the appropriate
> updates.
> 
> In the case of x86_64, the arch specific handler generates a new
> elfcorehdr, and overwrites the old one in memory. No involvement
> with userspace needed.

Thank a lot for all the effort, Eric.

Hi Boris, Andrew,

This version looks good to me. It introduces a framework for kdump
to react mem/cpu hotplug eveut and add x86 handler. Should this go
to x86 tree or mm tree? Please check what else we need do to fix or
improve.

Thanks
Baoquan

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