[RFC v3 PATCH 0/5] In kernel handling of CPU hotplug events for crash kernel
Laurent Dufour
ldufour at linux.ibm.com
Sat Mar 26 04:04:47 AEDT 2022
On 21/03/2022, 09:04:17, Sourabh Jain wrote:
> This patch series implements the crash hotplug handler on PowerPC introduced
> by https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/3/3/674 patch series.
Hi Sourabh,
That's a great idea!
>
> The Problem:
> ============
> Post hotplug/DLPAR events the capture kernel holds stale information about the
> system. Dump collection with stale capture kernel might end up in dump capture
> failure or an inaccurate dump collection.
>
>
> Existing solution:
> ==================
> The existing solution to keep the capture kernel up-to-date is observe the
> hotplug event via udev rule and trigger a full capture kernel reload post
> hotplug event.
>
> Shortcomings:
> ------------------------------------------------
> - Leaves a window where kernel crash might not lead to successful dump
> collection.
> - Reloading all kexec components for each hotplug is inefficient. Since only
> one or two kexec components need to be updated due to hotplug event reloading
> all kexec component is redundant.
> - udev rules are prone to races if hotplug events are frequent.
>
> More about issues with an existing solution is posted here:
> - https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/12/14/532
> - https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2022-February/240254.html
>
> Proposed Solution:
> ==================
> Instead of reloading all kexec segments on hotplug event, this patch series
> focuses on updating only the relevant kexec segment. Once the kexec
> segments are loaded in the kernel reserved area then an arch-specific hotplug handler
> will update the relevant kexec segment based on hotplug event type.
>
> As mentioned above this patch series implemented a PowerPC crash hotplug
> handler for the CPU. The crash hotplug handler memory is in our TODO list.
If I understand corrrectly, and based on the change in the patch 4/5,
memory hotplug operations are ignored. Does this means that once this
series is applied, the capture kenrel will not be able to work correctly on
this hot plug/unplugged memory areas?
Thanks,
Laurent.
>
> A couple of minor changes are required to realize the benefit of the patch
> series:
>
> - disalble the udev rule:
>
> comment out the below line in kdump udev rule file:
> RHEL: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/98-kexec.rules
> # SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ACTION=="online", GOTO="kdump_reload_cpu"
>
> - kexec tool needs to be updated with patch for kexec_load system call
> to work (not needed if -s option is used during kexec panic load):
>
> ---
> diff --git a/kexec/arch/ppc64/kexec-elf-ppc64.c b/kexec/arch/ppc64/kexec-elf-ppc64.c
> index 695b8b0..1dc6490 100644
> --- a/kexec/arch/ppc64/kexec-elf-ppc64.c
> +++ b/kexec/arch/ppc64/kexec-elf-ppc64.c
> @@ -45,6 +45,29 @@ uint64_t initrd_base, initrd_size;
> unsigned char reuse_initrd = 0;
> const char *ramdisk;
>
> +#define MAX_CORE 256
> +#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);
> +}
> +
> int elf_ppc64_probe(const char *buf, off_t len)
> {
> struct mem_ehdr ehdr;
> @@ -179,6 +202,7 @@ int elf_ppc64_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
> uint64_t max_addr, hole_addr;
> char *seg_buf = NULL;
> off_t seg_size = 0;
> + unsigned int mem_sz = 0;
> struct mem_phdr *phdr;
> size_t size;
> #ifdef NEED_RESERVE_DTB
> @@ -329,7 +353,13 @@ int elf_ppc64_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
> if (result < 0)
> return result;
>
> - my_dt_offset = add_buffer(info, seg_buf, seg_size, seg_size,
> + if (info->kexec_flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) {
> + mem_sz = get_crash_fdt_mem_sz((void *)seg_buf);
> + fdt_set_totalsize(seg_buf, mem_sz);
> + info->fdt_index = info->nr_segments;
> + }
> +
> + my_dt_offset = add_buffer(info, seg_buf, seg_size, mem_sz,
> 0, 0, max_addr, -1);
>
> #ifdef NEED_RESERVE_DTB
> diff --git a/kexec/kexec.c b/kexec/kexec.c
> index f63b36b..846b1a8 100644
> --- a/kexec/kexec.c
> +++ b/kexec/kexec.c
> @@ -672,6 +672,9 @@ static void update_purgatory(struct kexec_info *info)
> if (info->segment[i].mem == (void *)info->rhdr.rel_addr) {
> continue;
> }
> + if (info->fdt_index == i)
> + continue;
> +
> sha256_update(&ctx, info->segment[i].buf,
> info->segment[i].bufsz);
> nullsz = info->segment[i].memsz - info->segment[i].bufsz;
> diff --git a/kexec/kexec.h b/kexec/kexec.h
> index 595dd68..0906a1b 100644
> --- a/kexec/kexec.h
> +++ b/kexec/kexec.h
> @@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ struct kexec_info {
> int command_line_len;
>
> int skip_checks;
> + // Given that we might need to update mutliple kexec segments
> + // then having array to keep indexes of all hotplug kexec segments
> + // will be helpful.
> + unsigned int fdt_index;
> };
>
> struct arch_map_entry {
> ---
>
> ---
> Changelog:
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - Use generic hotplug handler introduced by https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/2/9/1406, a
> significant change from v1.
>
> v2 -> v3
> - Move fdt_index and fdt_index_vaild variables to kimage_arch struct.
> - Rebase patche on top of https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/3/3/674 [v5]
> - Fixed warning reported by checpatch script
> ---
>
> Sourabh Jain (5):
> powerpc/kexec: make update_cpus_node non-static
> powerpc/crash hp: introduce a new config option CRASH_HOTPLUG
> powrepc/crash hp: update kimage struct
> powerpc/crash hp: add crash hotplug support for kexec_file_load
> powerpc/crash hp: add crash hotplug support for kexec_load
>
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 11 +++
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h | 3 +
> arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c | 153 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c | 40 ++++++++
> arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c | 87 -----------------
> 5 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)
>
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