linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kexec: fix the unexpected kexec

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Message-ID: <ZfL1fvlfcziCVBsP@MiWiFi-R3L-srv>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:02:54 +0800
From: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, joe@...ches.com, dyoung@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec: fix the unexpected kexec_dprintk() macro

On 03/14/24 at 12:54pm, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 14. 03. 24, 11:39, Baoquan He wrote:
> > Jiri reported that the current kexec_dprintk() always prints out
> > debugging message whenever kexec/kdmmp loading is triggered. That is
> > not wanted. The debugging message is supposed to be printed out when
> > 'kexec -s -d' is specified for kexec/kdump loading.
> > 
> > After investigating, the reason is the current kexec_dprintk() takes
> > printk(KERN_INFO) or printk(KERN_DEBUG) depending on whether '-d' is
> > specified. However, distros usually have defaulg log level like below:
> > 
> >   [~]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk
> >   7	 4	1	7
> > 
> > So, even though '-d' is not specified, printk(KERN_DEBUG) also always
> > prints out. I thought printk(KERN_DEBUG) is equal to pr_debug(), it's
> > not.
> > 
> > Fix it by changing to use pr_info() and pr_debug() instead which are
> > expected to work.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> sow, you'd need both -d, and dyndbg updates. Hence, again my question:
> ===
> Actually what was wrong on the pr_debug()s? Can you simply turn them on from
> the kernel when -d is passed to kexec instead of all this?

I checked code, it's because some codes are shared by both kexec_load and
kexec_file_load, e.g below function on arm64:

arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c:machine_kexec_post_load()

"kexec -c -l -d" is for kexec_load debugging message printing, it's all
done in user space kexec-tools utility. The pr_debug() have been there
for arm64 developer's debugging if they want to. I don't want to change
that.

If 'kexec -s -l -d', pr_info() is called to print out. If 'kexec -s -l'
w/o '-d', or 'kexec -c -l', it's still pr_debug just as before.

> ===
> 
> And yet, it is still missing a prefix :).

It looks like this now, seems no need to add prefix.
 
[  102.609784] kexec_file: kernel: 0000000081fc03e0 kernel_size: 0xccb200
[  102.617084] PEFILE: Unsigned PE binary
[  102.753174] ima: kexec measurement buffer for the loaded kernel at 0x71435000.
[  102.761335] kexec-bzImage64: Loaded purgatory at 0x71430000
[  102.767571] kexec-bzImage64: Loaded boot_param, command line and misc at 0x7142c000 bufsz=0x1320 memsz=0x2000
[  102.778650] kexec-bzImage64: Loaded 64bit kernel at 0x6d000000 bufsz=0xcc6200 memsz=0x3c4c000
[  102.788251] kexec-bzImage64: Loaded initrd at 0x6ac0f000 bufsz=0x23f0175 memsz=0x23f0175
[  102.797283] kexec-bzImage64: Final command line is: root=/dev/mapper/fedora_lenovo--electron--sr850--01-root ro rd.lvm.lv=fedora_lenovo-electron-sr850-01/root console=ttyS0,115200n81
[  102.815435] kexec-bzImage64: E820 memmap:
[  102.819912] kexec-bzImage64: 0000000000000000-000000000003dfff (1)
[  102.826817] kexec-bzImage64: 000000000003e000-000000000003ffff (2)
[  103.021435] kexec-bzImage64: 00000000ff000000-00000000ffffffff (2)
.....snip
[  103.028336] kexec-bzImage64: 0000000100000000-000000403fffffff (1)
[  103.269194] kexec_file: nr_segments = 5
[  103.273484] kexec_file: segment[0]: buf=0x00000000898981dd bufsz=0x59e mem=0x71435000 memsz=0x1000
[  103.283616] kexec_file: segment[1]: buf=0x000000003d8dd363 bufsz=0x4000 mem=0x71430000 memsz=0x5000
[  103.293748] kexec_file: segment[2]: buf=0x00000000ba27c5ef bufsz=0x1320 mem=0x7142c000 memsz=0x2000
[  103.303865] kexec_file: segment[3]: buf=0x0000000026acdcf4 bufsz=0xcc6200 mem=0x6d000000 memsz=0x3c4c000
[  103.333455] kexec_file: segment[4]: buf=0x000000001a7dac7f bufsz=0x23f0175 mem=0x6ac0f000 memsz=0x23f1000
[  103.356698] kexec_file: kexec_file_load: type:0, start:0x714301a0 head:0x1222da002 flags:0x8