Debugging kexec failures is painful, as anything going wrong in execution of the critical relocate_kernel() function tends to just lead to a triple fault. Thus leading to *weeks* of my life that I won't get back. Having hacked something up for my own use, I figured I should share it... Add a CONFIG_KEXEC_DEBUG option which sets up a trivial exception handler in that environment, and outputs to the early_printk serial console if configured. Currently only 8250-compatible serial ports are supported, but that could be extended. While we're here, clean the code up a little and fix some other problems. Most notably, load a suitable GDT on the way back into the kernel after a KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT invocation instead of trusting the called code to do so. I had to hack up QEMU support for a PCI serial port which matches what the existing early_printk code can drive, and the *real* 8250_pci driver doesn't seem to cope with that setup at all, but whatever... the kexec code now drives the same 32-bit stride which is all that earlyprintk supports. We can always add more later, if anyone cares. Someone who cares might want to bring the i386 version into line with this, although the lack of rip-based addressing makes all the PIC code a bit harder. v5: • Drop [RFC]. • Drop _PAGE_NOPTISHADOW fix, which Ingo already took into tip/x86/urgent. • Add memory-mapped serial port support (32-bit MMIO spacing only). v4 (RFC): https://lore.kernel.org/kexec/20241127190343.44916-1-dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/ • Add _PAGE_NOPTISHADOW fix for the identmap code. • Drop explicit map of control page, which was masking the identmap bug. v3 (RFC): https://lore.kernel.org/kexec/20241125100815.2512-1-dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/ • Add CONFIG_KEXEC_DEBUG option and use earlyprintk config. • Allocate PGD separately from control page. • Explicitly map control page into identmap. V2 (RFC): https://lore.kernel.org/kexec/20241122224715.171751-1-dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/ • Introduce linker script, start to clean up data access. V1 (RFC): https://lore.kernel.org/kexec/20241103054019.3795299-1-dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/ • Initial proof-of-concept hacks. David Woodhouse (20): x86/kexec: Restore GDT on return from preserve_context kexec x86/kexec: Clean up and document register use in relocate_kernel_64.S x86/kexec: Use named labels in swap_pages in relocate_kernel_64.S x86/kexec: Only swap pages for preserve_context mode x86/kexec: Allocate PGD for x86_64 transition page tables separately x86/kexec: Copy control page into place in machine_kexec_prepare() x86/kexec: Invoke copy of relocate_kernel() instead of the original x86/kexec: Move relocate_kernel to kernel .data section x86/kexec: Add data section to relocate_kernel x86/kexec: Drop page_list argument from relocate_kernel() x86/kexec: Eliminate writes through kernel mapping of relocate_kernel page x86/kexec: Clean up register usage in relocate_kernel() x86/kexec: Mark relocate_kernel page as ROX instead of RWX x86/kexec: Add CONFIG_KEXEC_DEBUG option x86/kexec: Debugging support: load a GDT x86/kexec: Debugging support: Load an IDT and basic exception entry points x86/kexec: Debugging support: Dump registers on exception x86/kexec: Add 8250 serial port output x86/kexec: Add 8250 MMIO serial port output [DO NOT MERGE] x86/kexec: Add int3 in kexec path for testing arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 8 + arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h | 35 ++- arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/callthunks.c | 6 + arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c | 9 + arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 143 ++++++++---- arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S | 406 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 16 +- 8 files changed, 494 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-)
