This patch implements shrinking the reserved memory for crash kernel, if it is more than enough. For example, if you have already reserved 128M, now you just want 100M, you can do: # echo $((100*1024*1024)) > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size Note, you can only do this before loading the crash kernel. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/kexec.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/kexec.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/kexec.h @@ -206,6 +206,8 @@ extern size_t vmcoreinfo_max_size; int __init parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline, unsigned long long system_ram, unsigned long long *crash_size, unsigned long long *crash_base); +int shrink_crash_memory(unsigned long new_size); +size_t get_crash_memory_size(void); #else /* !CONFIG_KEXEC */ struct pt_regs; Index: linux-2.6/kernel/kexec.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/kexec.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/kexec.c @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ #include <linux/cpu.h> #include <linux/console.h> #include <linux/vmalloc.h> +#include <linux/swap.h> #include <asm/page.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> @@ -1083,6 +1084,58 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) } } +size_t get_crash_memory_size(void) +{ + size_t size; + mutex_lock(&kexec_mutex); + size = crashk_res.end - crashk_res.start + 1; + mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex); + return size; +} + +int shrink_crash_memory(unsigned long new_size) +{ + int ret = 0; + unsigned long addr; + unsigned long start, end; + + mutex_lock(&kexec_mutex); + + if (kexec_crash_image) { + ret = -ENOENT; + goto unlock; + } + start = crashk_res.start; + end = crashk_res.end; + + if (new_size >= end - start + 1) { + ret = -EINVAL; + if (new_size == end - start + 1) + ret = 0; + goto unlock; + } + + start = roundup(start, PAGE_SIZE); + end = roundup(start + new_size, PAGE_SIZE); + + for (addr = end; addr < crashk_res.end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) { + ClearPageReserved(pfn_to_page(addr >> PAGE_SHIFT)); + init_page_count(pfn_to_page(addr >> PAGE_SHIFT)); + free_page((unsigned long)__va(addr)); + totalram_pages++; + } + + if (start == end) { + crashk_res.end = end; + release_resource(&crashk_res); + } else + crashk_res.end = end - 1; + +unlock: + mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex); + return ret; +} + static u32 *append_elf_note(u32 *buf, char *name, unsigned type, void *data, size_t data_len) { Index: linux-2.6/kernel/ksysfs.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/ksysfs.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/ksysfs.c @@ -100,6 +100,26 @@ static ssize_t kexec_crash_loaded_show(s } KERNEL_ATTR_RO(kexec_crash_loaded); +static ssize_t kexec_crash_size_show(struct kobject *kobj, + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf) +{ + return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", get_crash_memory_size()); +} +static ssize_t kexec_crash_size_store(struct kobject *kobj, + struct kobj_attribute *attr, + const char *buf, size_t count) +{ + unsigned long cnt; + int ret; + + if (strict_strtoul(buf, 0, &cnt)) + return -EINVAL; + + ret = shrink_crash_memory(cnt); + return ret < 0 ? ret : count; +} +KERNEL_ATTR_RW(kexec_crash_size); + static ssize_t vmcoreinfo_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf) { @@ -147,6 +167,7 @@ static struct attribute * kernel_attrs[] #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC &kexec_loaded_attr.attr, &kexec_crash_loaded_attr.attr, + &kexec_crash_size_attr.attr, &vmcoreinfo_attr.attr, #endif NULL -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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