On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 05:01:58PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> It used to be true that we can have busy system RAM only on the first level
> in the resourc tree. However, this is no longer holds for driver-managed
> system RAM (i.e., added via dax/kmem and virtio-mem), which gets added on
> lower levels.
>
> We have two users of walk_system_ram_res(), which currently only
> consideres the first level:
> a) kernel/kexec_file.c:kexec_walk_resources() -- We properly skip
> IORESOURCE_SYSRAM_DRIVER_MANAGED resources via
> locate_mem_hole_callback(), so even after this change, we won't be
> placing kexec images onto dax/kmem and virtio-mem added memory. No
> change.
> b) arch/x86/kernel/crash.c:fill_up_crash_elf_data() -- we're currently
> not adding relevant ranges to the crash elf info, resulting in them
> not getting dumped via kdump.
>
> This change fixes loading a crashkernel via kexec_file_load() and including
"...fixes..." effectively means to me that Fixes tag should be provided.
> dax/kmem and virtio-mem added System RAM in the crashdump on x86-64. Note
> that e.g,, arm64 relies on memblock data and, therefore, always considers
> all added System RAM already.
>
> Let's find all busy IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM resources, making the function
> behave like walk_system_ram_range().
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/resource.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
> index 627e61b0c124..4efd6e912279 100644
> --- a/kernel/resource.c
> +++ b/kernel/resource.c
> @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ int walk_system_ram_res(u64 start, u64 end, void *arg,
> {
> unsigned long flags = IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM | IORESOURCE_BUSY;
>
> - return __walk_iomem_res_desc(start, end, flags, IORES_DESC_NONE, true,
> + return __walk_iomem_res_desc(start, end, flags, IORES_DESC_NONE, false,
> arg, func);
> }
>
> --
> 2.29.2
>
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
