On 05/21/20 at 05:38pm, Chen Zhou wrote:
> This patch series enable reserving crashkernel above 4G in arm64.
>
> There are following issues in arm64 kdump:
> 1. We use crashkernel=X to reserve crashkernel below 4G, which will fail
> when there is no enough low memory.
> 2. Currently, crashkernel=Y@X can be used to reserve crashkernel above 4G,
> in this case, if swiotlb or DMA buffers are required, crash dump kernel
> will boot failure because there is no low memory available for allocation.
>
> To solve these issues, introduce crashkernel=X,low to reserve specified
> size low memory.
> Crashkernel=X tries to reserve memory for the crash dump kernel under
> 4G. If crashkernel=Y,low is specified simultaneously, reserve spcified
> size low memory for crash kdump kernel devices firstly and then reserve
> memory above 4G.
>
> When crashkernel is reserved above 4G in memory, that is, crashkernel=X,low
> is specified simultaneously, kernel should reserve specified size low memory
> for crash dump kernel devices. So there may be two crash kernel regions, one
> is below 4G, the other is above 4G.
> In order to distinct from the high region and make no effect to the use of
> kexec-tools, rename the low region as "Crash kernel (low)", and add DT property
> "linux,low-memory-range" to crash dump kernel's dtb to pass the low region.
>
> Besides, we need to modify kexec-tools:
> arm64: kdump: add another DT property to crash dump kernel's dtb(see [1])
>
> The previous changes and discussions can be retrieved from:
>
> Changes since [v7]
> - Move x86 CRASH_ALIGN to 2M
> Suggested by Dave and do some test, move x86 CRASH_ALIGN to 2M.
OK, moving x86 CRASH_ALIGN to 2M is suggested by Dave. Because
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN can be selected from 2M to 16M. So 2M seems good.
But, anyway, we should tell the reason why it need be changed in commit
log.
arch/x86/Kconfig:
config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned"
default "0x200000"
range 0x2000 0x1000000 if X86_32
range 0x200000 0x1000000 if X86_64
> - Update Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt
> Add corresponding documentation to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt suggested by Arnd.
> - Add Tested-by from Jhon and pk
>
> Changes since [v6]
> - Fix build errors reported by kbuild test robot.
>
> Changes since [v5]
> - Move reserve_crashkernel_low() into kernel/crash_core.c.
> - Delete crashkernel=X,high.
And the crashkernel=X,high being deleted need be told too. Otherwise
people reading the commit have to check why themselves. I didn't follow
the old version, can't see why ,high can't be specified explicitly.
> - Modify crashkernel=X,low.
> If crashkernel=X,low is specified simultaneously, reserve spcified size low
> memory for crash kdump kernel devices firstly and then reserve memory above 4G.
> In addition, rename crashk_low_res as "Crash kernel (low)" for arm64, and then
> pass to crash dump kernel by DT property "linux,low-memory-range".
> - Update Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst.
>
> Changes since [v4]
> - Reimplement memblock_cap_memory_ranges for multiple ranges by Mike.
>
> Changes since [v3]
> - Add memblock_cap_memory_ranges back for multiple ranges.
> - Fix some compiling warnings.
>
> Changes since [v2]
> - Split patch "arm64: kdump: support reserving crashkernel above 4G" as
> two. Put "move reserve_crashkernel_low() into kexec_core.c" in a separate
> patch.
>
> Changes since [v1]:
> - Move common reserve_crashkernel_low() code into kernel/kexec_core.c.
> - Remove memblock_cap_memory_ranges() i added in v1 and implement that
> in fdt_enforce_memory_region().
> There are at most two crash kernel regions, for two crash kernel regions
> case, we cap the memory range [min(regs[*].start), max(regs[*].end)]
> and then remove the memory range in the middle.
>
> [1]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2020-May/025128.html
> [v1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/2/1174
> [v2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/9/86
> [v3]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/9/306
> [v4]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/15/273
> [v5]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/6/1360
> [v6]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/30/142
> [v7]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/23/411
>
> Chen Zhou (5):
> x86: kdump: move reserve_crashkernel_low() into crash_core.c
> arm64: kdump: reserve crashkenel above 4G for crash dump kernel
> arm64: kdump: add memory for devices by DT property, low-memory-range
> kdump: update Documentation about crashkernel on arm64
> dt-bindings: chosen: Document linux,low-memory-range for arm64 kdump
>
> Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst | 13 ++-
> .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 12 ++-
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt | 25 ++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 8 +-
> arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 61 ++++++++++++-
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 66 ++------------
> include/linux/crash_core.h | 3 +
> include/linux/kexec.h | 2 -
> kernel/crash_core.c | 85 +++++++++++++++++++
> kernel/kexec_core.c | 17 ----
> 10 files changed, 208 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
>
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> 2.20.1
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