[RFC v3 PATCH 4/5] powerpc/crash hp: add crash hotplug support for kexec_file_load

Eric DeVolder eric.devolder at oracle.com
Thu Mar 24 05:32:57 AEDT 2022


Notes below.
eric

On 3/21/22 03:04, Sourabh Jain wrote:
> Two major changes are done to enable the crash CPU hotplug handler.
> Firstly, updated the kexec_load path to prepare kimage for hotplug
> changes and secondly, implemented the crash hotplug handler itself.
> 
> On the kexec load path, memsz allocation of crash FDT segment is
> updated to ensure that it has sufficient buffer space to accommodate
> future hot add CPUs. Initialized the kimage members to track the FDT
> segment.
> 
> The crash hotplug handler updates the cpus node of crash FDT. While
> we update crash FDT the kexec_crash_image is marked invalid and restored
> after FDT update to avoid race.
> 
> Since memory crash hotplug support is not there yet the crash hotplug
> handler simply warn the user and return.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c  | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 86 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c
> index 249d2632526d..a470fe6904e3 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c
> @@ -466,6 +466,52 @@ int update_cpus_node(void *fdt)
>   	return ret;
>   }
>   
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
> +/**
> + * arch_crash_hotplug_handler() - Handle hotplug FDT changes
> + * @image: the active struct kimage
> + * @hp_action: the hot un/plug action being handled
> + * @a: first parameter dependent upon hp_action
> + * @b: first parameter dependent upon hp_action
> + *
> + * To accurately reflect CPU hot un/plug changes, the FDT
> + * must be updated with the new list of CPUs and memories.
> + */
> +void arch_crash_hotplug_handler(struct kimage *image, unsigned int hp_action,
> +				unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
> +{
> +	void *fdt;
> +
> +	/* No action needed for CPU hot-unplug */
> +	if (hp_action == KEXEC_CRASH_HP_REMOVE_CPU)
> +		return;
Just curious why no action is needed on cpu remove?

> +
> +	/* crash update on memory hotplug is not support yet */
> +	if (hp_action == KEXEC_CRASH_HP_REMOVE_MEMORY || hp_action == KEXEC_CRASH_HP_ADD_MEMORY) {
> +		pr_err("crash hp: crash update is not supported with memory hotplug\n");
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* Must have valid FDT index */
> +	if (!image->arch.fdt_index_valid) {
> +		pr_err("crash hp: unable to locate FDT segment");
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	fdt = __va((void *)image->segment[image->arch.fdt_index].mem);
> +
> +	/* Temporarily invalidate the crash image while it is replaced */
> +	xchg(&kexec_crash_image, NULL);
> +
> +	/* update FDT to refelect changes to CPU resrouces */
> +	if (update_cpus_node(fdt))
> +		pr_err("crash hp: failed to update crash FDT");
> +
> +	/* The crash image is now valid once again */
> +	xchg(&kexec_crash_image, image);
> +}
> +#endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG */
> +
>   #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_64S_HASH_MMU
>   /* Values we need to export to the second kernel via the device tree. */
>   static unsigned long htab_base;
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c
> index eeb258002d1e..2ffe6d69e186 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,33 @@
>   #include <linux/slab.h>
>   #include <linux/types.h>
>   
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
> +#define MAX_CORE 256
Is there a better config option to tie this value too?
> +#define PER_CORE_NODE_SIZE 1500
> +
> +/**
> + * get_crash_fdt_mem_sz() - calcuate mem size for crash kernel FDT
> + * @fdt: pointer to crash kernel FDT
> + *
> + * Calculate the buffer space needed to add more CPU nodes in FDT after
> + * capture kenrel load due to hot add events.
> + *
> + * Some assumption are made to calculate the additional buffer size needed
> + * to accommodate future hot add CPUs to the crash FDT. The maximum core count
> + * in the system would not go beyond MAX_CORE and memory needed to store per core
> + * date in FDT is PER_CORE_NODE_SIZE.
> + *
> + * Certainly MAX_CORE count can be replaced with possible core count and
> + * PER_CORE_NODE_SIZE to some standard value instead of randomly observed
> + * core size value on Power9 LPAR.
> + */
> +static unsigned int get_crash_fdt_mem_sz(void *fdt)
> +{
> +	return fdt_totalsize(fdt) + (PER_CORE_NODE_SIZE * MAX_CORE);
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>   static void *elf64_load(struct kimage *image, char *kernel_buf,
>   			unsigned long kernel_len, char *initrd,
>   			unsigned long initrd_len, char *cmdline,
> @@ -123,6 +150,19 @@ static void *elf64_load(struct kimage *image, char *kernel_buf,
>   	kbuf.buf_align = PAGE_SIZE;
>   	kbuf.top_down = true;
>   	kbuf.mem = KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN;
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
> +	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
> +		kbuf.memsz = get_crash_fdt_mem_sz(fdt);
> +		fdt_set_totalsize(fdt, kbuf.memsz);
> +		image->arch.fdt_index = image->nr_segments;
> +		image->arch.fdt_index_valid = true;
> +	} else
> +#endif
> +	{
> +		kbuf.memsz = fdt_totalsize(fdt);
> +	}
> +
>   	ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf);
>   	if (ret)
>   		goto out_free_fdt;
> 


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