[RFC PATCH v6 4/4] powerpc/fadump: Do not allow hot-remove memory from fadump reserved area.

Mahesh J Salgaonkar mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Jul 16 16:03:49 AEST 2018


From: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

For fadump to work successfully there should not be any holes in reserved
memory ranges where kernel has asked firmware to move the content of old
kernel memory in event of crash. Now that fadump reserved memory is marked
as movable zone, this memory area is now not protected from hot-remove
operations. Hence, fadump service can fail to re-register after the
hot-remove operation, if hot-removed memory belongs to fadump reserved
region. To avoid this make sure that memory from fadump reserved area is
not hot-removable if fadump is registered.

However, if user still wants to remove that memory, he can do so by
manually stopping fadump service before hot-remove operation.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h               |    2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c                    |   10 ++++++++--
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c |    7 +++++--
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h
index 5c0de4508aab..cd28e9b59057 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ struct fad_crash_memory_ranges {
 	unsigned long long	size;
 };
 
-extern int is_fadump_boot_memory_area(u64 addr, ulong size);
+extern int is_fadump_memory_area(u64 addr, ulong size);
 extern int early_init_dt_scan_fw_dump(unsigned long node,
 		const char *uname, int depth, void *data);
 extern int fadump_reserve_mem(void);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
index d1375f3f48c3..18a35f12ffb5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
@@ -116,13 +116,19 @@ int __init early_init_dt_scan_fw_dump(unsigned long node,
 
 /*
  * If fadump is registered, check if the memory provided
- * falls within boot memory area.
+ * falls within boot memory area and reserved memory area.
  */
-int is_fadump_boot_memory_area(u64 addr, ulong size)
+int is_fadump_memory_area(u64 addr, ulong size)
 {
+	u64 d_start = fw_dump.reserve_dump_area_start;
+	u64 d_end = d_start + fw_dump.reserve_dump_area_size;
+
 	if (!fw_dump.dump_registered)
 		return 0;
 
+	if (((addr + size) > d_start) && (addr <= d_end))
+		return 1;
+
 	return (addr + size) > RMA_START && addr <= fw_dump.boot_memory_size;
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
index c1578f54c626..e4c658cda3a7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
@@ -389,8 +389,11 @@ static bool lmb_is_removable(struct drmem_lmb *lmb)
 	phys_addr = lmb->base_addr;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FA_DUMP
-	/* Don't hot-remove memory that falls in fadump boot memory area */
-	if (is_fadump_boot_memory_area(phys_addr, block_sz))
+	/*
+	 * Don't hot-remove memory that falls in fadump boot memory area
+	 * and memory that is reserved for capturing old kernel memory.
+	 */
+	if (is_fadump_memory_area(phys_addr, block_sz))
 		return false;
 #endif
 



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