The patch titled
Subject: kexec_file: add kexec_file flag to control debug printing
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
kexec_file-add-kexec_file-flag-to-control-debug-printing.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/kexec_file-add-kexec_file-flag-to-control-debug-printing.patch
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From: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: kexec_file: add kexec_file flag to control debug printing
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 10:39:49 +0800
Patch series "kexec_file: print out debugging message if required", v3.
Currently, specifying '-d' on kexec command will print a lot of debugging
informationabout kexec/kdump loading with kexec_load interface.
However, kexec_file_load prints nothing even though '-d' is specified.
It's very inconvenient to debug or analyze the kexec/kdump loading when
something wrong happened with kexec/kdump itself or develper want to check
the kexec/kdump loading.
In this patchset, a kexec_file flag is KEXEC_FILE_DEBUG added and checked
in code. If it's passed in, debugging message of kexec_file code will be
printed out and can be seen from console and dmesg. Otherwise, the
debugging message is printed like beofre when pr_debug() is taken.
Note:
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1) The code in kexec-tools utility also need be changed to support
passing KEXEC_FILE_DEBUG to kernel when 'kexec -s -d' is specified.
The patch link is here:
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[PATCH] kexec_file: add kexec_file flag to support debug printing
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2023-November/028505.html
2) s390 also has kexec_file code, while I am not sure what debugging
information is necessary. So leave it to s390 developer.
Test:
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Testing was done in v1 on x86_64 and arm64. For v3, tested on x86_64
again. And on x86_64, the printed messages look like below:
--------------------------------------------------------------
kexec measurement buffer for the loaded kernel at 0x207fffe000.
Loaded purgatory at 0x207fff9000
Loaded boot_param, command line and misc at 0x207fff3000 bufsz=0x1180 memsz=0x1180
Loaded 64bit kernel at 0x207c000000 bufsz=0xc88200 memsz=0x3c4a000
Loaded initrd at 0x2079e79000 bufsz=0x2186280 memsz=0x2186280
Final command line is: root=/dev/mapper/fedora_intel--knightslanding--lb--02-root ro
rd.lvm.lv=fedora_intel-knightslanding-lb-02/root console=ttyS0,115200N81 crashkernel=256M
E820 memmap:
0000000000000000-000000000009a3ff (1)
000000000009a400-000000000009ffff (2)
00000000000e0000-00000000000fffff (2)
0000000000100000-000000006ff83fff (1)
000000006ff84000-000000007ac50fff (2)
......
000000207fff6150-000000207fff615f (128)
000000207fff6160-000000207fff714f (1)
000000207fff7150-000000207fff715f (128)
000000207fff7160-000000207fff814f (1)
000000207fff8150-000000207fff815f (128)
000000207fff8160-000000207fffffff (1)
nr_segments = 5
segment[0]: buf=0x000000004e5ece74 bufsz=0x211 mem=0x207fffe000 memsz=0x1000
segment[1]: buf=0x000000009e871498 bufsz=0x4000 mem=0x207fff9000 memsz=0x5000
segment[2]: buf=0x00000000d879f1fe bufsz=0x1180 mem=0x207fff3000 memsz=0x2000
segment[3]: buf=0x000000001101cd86 bufsz=0xc88200 mem=0x207c000000 memsz=0x3c4a000
segment[4]: buf=0x00000000c6e38ac7 bufsz=0x2186280 mem=0x2079e79000 memsz=0x2187000
kexec_file_load: type:0, start:0x207fff91a0 head:0x109e004002 flags:0x8
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
This patch (of 7):
When specifying 'kexec -c -d', kexec_load interface will print loading
information, e.g the regions where kernel/initrd/purgatory/cmdline are
put, the memmap passed to 2nd kernel taken as system RAM ranges, and
printing all contents of struct kexec_segment, etc. These are very
helpful for analyzing or positioning what's happening when kexec/kdump
itself failed. The debugging printing for kexec_load interface is made in
user space utility kexec-tools.
Whereas, with kexec_file_load interface, 'kexec -s -d' print nothing.
Because kexec_file code is mostly implemented in kernel space, and the
debugging printing functionality is missed. It's not convenient when
debugging kexec/kdump loading and jumping with kexec_file_load interface.
Now add KEXEC_FILE_DEBUG to kexec_file flag to control the debugging
message printing. And add global variable kexec_file_dbg_print and macro
kexec_dprintk() to facilitate the printing.
This is a preparation, later kexec_dprintk() will be used to replace the
existing pr_debug(). Once 'kexec -s -d' is specified, it will print out
kexec/kdump loading information. If '-d' is not specified, it regresses
to pr_debug().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023955.5257-1-bhe@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023955.5257-2-bhe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/kexec.h | 9 ++++++++-
include/uapi/linux/kexec.h | 1 +
kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 ++
kernel/kexec_file.c | 3 +++
4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h~kexec_file-add-kexec_file-flag-to-control-debug-printing
+++ a/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ bool kexec_load_permitted(int kexec_imag
/* List of defined/legal kexec file flags */
#define KEXEC_FILE_FLAGS (KEXEC_FILE_UNLOAD | KEXEC_FILE_ON_CRASH | \
- KEXEC_FILE_NO_INITRAMFS)
+ KEXEC_FILE_NO_INITRAMFS | KEXEC_FILE_DEBUG)
/* flag to track if kexec reboot is in progress */
extern bool kexec_in_progress;
@@ -500,6 +500,13 @@ static inline int crash_hotplug_memory_s
static inline unsigned int crash_get_elfcorehdr_size(void) { return 0; }
#endif
+extern bool kexec_file_dbg_print;
+
+#define kexec_dprintk(fmt, ...) \
+ printk("%s" fmt, \
+ kexec_file_dbg_print ? KERN_INFO : KERN_DEBUG, \
+ ##__VA_ARGS__)
+
#else /* !CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE */
struct pt_regs;
struct task_struct;
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h~kexec_file-add-kexec_file-flag-to-control-debug-printing
+++ a/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
#define KEXEC_FILE_UNLOAD 0x00000001
#define KEXEC_FILE_ON_CRASH 0x00000002
#define KEXEC_FILE_NO_INITRAMFS 0x00000004
+#define KEXEC_FILE_DEBUG 0x00000008
/* These values match the ELF architecture values.
* Unless there is a good reason that should continue to be the case.
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c~kexec_file-add-kexec_file-flag-to-control-debug-printing
+++ a/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ atomic_t __kexec_lock = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
/* Flag to indicate we are going to kexec a new kernel */
bool kexec_in_progress = false;
+bool kexec_file_dbg_print;
+
int kexec_should_crash(struct task_struct *p)
{
/*
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c~kexec_file-add-kexec_file-flag-to-control-debug-printing
+++ a/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ void kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(struc
*/
kfree(image->image_loader_data);
image->image_loader_data = NULL;
+
+ kexec_file_dbg_print = false;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_SIG
@@ -278,6 +280,7 @@ kimage_file_alloc_init(struct kimage **r
if (!image)
return -ENOMEM;
+ kexec_file_dbg_print = !!(flags & KEXEC_FILE_DEBUG);
image->file_mode = 1;
if (kexec_on_panic) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from bhe@xxxxxxxxxx are
drivers-base-cpu-crash-data-showing-should-depends-on-kexec_core.patch
kernel-kconfigkexec-drop-select-of-kexec-for-crash_dump.patch
loongarch-change-dependency-of-object-files.patch
resource-add-walk_system_ram_res_rev.patch
kexec_file-load-kernel-at-top-of-system-ram-if-required.patch
kexec_file-add-kexec_file-flag-to-control-debug-printing.patch
kexec_file-print-out-debugging-message-if-required.patch
kexec_file-x86-print-out-debugging-message-if-required.patch
kexec_file-arm64-print-out-debugging-message-if-required.patch
kexec_file-ricv-print-out-debugging-message-if-required.patch
kexec_file-power-print-out-debugging-message-if-required.patch
kexec_file-parisc-print-out-debugging-message-if-required.patch
