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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 14:26:58 -0500
From: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@...cle.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 7/7] x86/crash: Add x86 crash hotplug support
On 10/28/22 12:06, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 10:29:45AM -0500, Eric DeVolder wrote:
>> So it is with this in mind that I suggest we stay with the statically sized elfcorehdr buffer.
>>
>> If that can be agreed upon, then it is "just a matter" of picking a useful
>> elfcorehdr size. Currently that size is derived from the NR_DEFAULT_CPUS and
>> CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES. So, there is still the CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES knob
>> to help a dial in size, should there be some issue with the default
>> value/size.
>
> Let's see
>
> kbuf.memsz =
> (CONFIG_NR_CPUS_DEFAULT + CONFIG_CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES) *
> sizeof(Elf64_Phdr);
>
> which, IINM, is
>
> (8192 + 32768) * 56
>
> which is something like 2M.
>
> (CONFIG_NR_CPUS_DEFAULT = 8192 - this is because of MAXSMP which gets
> set on distro kernels)
>
> Now, since userspace kexec tools uses 2048 for max memory ranges, that
> size becomes smaller - around half a Mb. And since y'all wanna be on the
> safe side, you can quadruple it and have
>
> (8192 + 8192) * 56
>
> which is still under a megabyte. And that's fine, I guess, on a big
> server.
Excellent, I'll set CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES to 8192! That seems a quite fair trade off of elfcorehdr
size vs system size (ie 1TiB w/ 128MiB memblock size).
>
>> Or if there is desire to drop computing the size from NR_DEFAULT_CPUs and
>
> I think you should leave the dependency on the Kconfig size so that
> smaller machines which are configured this way, don't end up wasting
> unnecessary memory.
Excellent, I'll leave the computation as NR_DEFAULT_CPUS + CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES.
>
>> It is my intention to correct the CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES (if we keep it) as such:
>>
>> config CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES
>> depends on CRASH_DUMP && KEXEC_FILE && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
>
> Yes, but don't leave it to the user to decide what number to choose
> - choose a high enough number, explain why you've chosen this with a
> comment and that's it.
I currently have the Kconfig item as:
config CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES
depends on CRASH_DUMP && KEXEC_FILE && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
int
default 8192
help
For the kexec_file_load path, specify the maximum number of
memory regions, eg. as represented by the 'System RAM' entries
in /proc/iomem, that the elfcorehdr buffer/segment can accommodate.
This value is combined with NR_CPUS and multiplied by Elf64_Phdr
size to determine the final buffer size.
I'll work to provide information a better explanation as to the 8192 number.
Thank you!
eric
>
> Thx.
>
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