[PATCH v17 2/6] crash: add a new kexec flag for hotplug support

Sourabh Jain sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com
Mon Feb 26 19:41:13 AEDT 2024


Commit a72bbec70da2 ("crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()")
introduced a new kexec flag, `KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR`. Kexec tool uses
this flag to indicate to the kernel that it is safe to modify the
elfcorehdr of the kdump image loaded using the kexec_load system call.

However, it is possible that architectures may need to update kexec
segments other then elfcorehdr. For example, FDT (Flatten Device Tree)
on PowerPC. Introducing a new kexec flag for every new kexec segment
may not be a good solution. Hence, a generic kexec flag bit,
`KEXEC_CRASH_HOTPLUG_SUPPORT`, is introduced to share the CPU/Memory
hotplug support intent between the kexec tool and the kernel for the
kexec_load system call.

Now, if the kexec tool sends KEXEC_CRASH_HOTPLUG_SUPPORT kexec flag to
the kernel, it indicates to the kernel that all the required kexec
segment is skipped from SHA calculation and it is safe to update kdump
image loaded using the kexec_load syscall.

While loading the kdump image using the kexec_load syscall, the
@update_elfcorehdr member of struct kimage is set if the kexec tool
sends the KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR kexec flag. This member is later used
to determine whether it is safe to update elfcorehdr on hotplug events.
However, with the introduction of the KEXEC_CRASH_HOTPLUG_SUPPORT kexec
flag, the kexec tool could mark all the required kexec segments on an
architecture as safe to update. So rename the @update_elfcorehdr to
@hotplug_support. If @hotplug_support is set, the kernel can safely
update all the required kexec segments of the kdump image during
CPU/Memory hotplug events.

Introduce an architecture-specific function to process kexec flags for
determining hotplug support. Set the @hotplug_support member of struct
kimage for both kexec_load and kexec_file_load system calls. This
simplifies kernel checks to identify hotplug support for the currently
loaded kdump image by just examining the value of @hotplug_support.

Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Akhil Raj <lf32.dev at gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp at alien8.de>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky at oracle.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
Cc: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder at oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Laurent Dufour <laurent.dufour at fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Naveen N Rao <naveen at kernel.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador at suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid at redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
Cc: x86 at kernel.org
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h | 11 ++---------
 arch/x86/kernel/crash.c      | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
 drivers/base/cpu.c           |  2 +-
 drivers/base/memory.c        |  2 +-
 include/linux/crash_core.h   | 13 ++++++-------
 include/linux/kexec.h        | 11 +++++++----
 include/uapi/linux/kexec.h   |  1 +
 kernel/crash_core.c          | 11 ++++-------
 kernel/kexec.c               |  4 ++--
 kernel/kexec_file.c          |  5 +++++
 10 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
index cb1320ebbc23..ae5482a2f0ca 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
@@ -210,15 +210,8 @@ extern void kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus(void);
 void arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event(struct kimage *image, void *arg);
 #define arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
-int arch_crash_hotplug_cpu_support(void);
-#define crash_hotplug_cpu_support arch_crash_hotplug_cpu_support
-#endif
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
-int arch_crash_hotplug_memory_support(void);
-#define crash_hotplug_memory_support arch_crash_hotplug_memory_support
-#endif
+int arch_crash_hotplug_support(struct kimage *image, unsigned long kexec_flags);
+#define arch_crash_hotplug_support arch_crash_hotplug_support
 
 unsigned int arch_crash_get_elfcorehdr_size(void);
 #define crash_get_elfcorehdr_size arch_crash_get_elfcorehdr_size
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
index 2a682fe86352..f06501445cd9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
@@ -402,20 +402,26 @@ int crash_load_segments(struct kimage *image)
 #undef pr_fmt
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) "crash hp: " fmt
 
-/* These functions provide the value for the sysfs crash_hotplug nodes */
-#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
-int arch_crash_hotplug_cpu_support(void)
+int arch_crash_hotplug_support(struct kimage *image, unsigned long kexec_flags)
 {
-	return crash_check_update_elfcorehdr();
-}
-#endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
-int arch_crash_hotplug_memory_support(void)
-{
-	return crash_check_update_elfcorehdr();
-}
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE
+	if (image->file_mode)
+		return 1;
 #endif
+	/*
+	 * Initially, crash hotplug support for kexec_load was added
+	 * with the KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR flag. Later, this
+	 * functionality was expanded to accommodate multiple kexec
+	 * segment updates, leading to the introduction of the
+	 * KEXEC_CRASH_HOTPLUG_SUPPORT kexec flag bit. Consequently,
+	 * when the kexec tool sends either of these flags, it indicates
+	 * that the required kexec segment (elfcorehdr) is excluded from
+	 * the SHA calculation.
+	 */
+	return (kexec_flags & KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR ||
+		kexec_flags & KEXEC_CRASH_HOTPLUG_SUPPORT);
+}
 
 unsigned int arch_crash_get_elfcorehdr_size(void)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index 5ae1496ccc06..a23489b8c8f0 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ static ssize_t crash_hotplug_show(struct device *dev,
 				     struct device_attribute *attr,
 				     char *buf)
 {
-	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%d\n", crash_hotplug_cpu_support());
+	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%d\n", crash_check_hotplug_support());
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR_ADMIN_RO(crash_hotplug);
 #endif
diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
index c0436f46cfb7..67858eeb92ed 100644
--- a/drivers/base/memory.c
+++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(auto_online_blocks);
 static ssize_t crash_hotplug_show(struct device *dev,
 				       struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 {
-	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%d\n", crash_hotplug_memory_support());
+	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%d\n", crash_check_hotplug_support());
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(crash_hotplug);
 #endif
diff --git a/include/linux/crash_core.h b/include/linux/crash_core.h
index 647e928efee8..44305336314e 100644
--- a/include/linux/crash_core.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_core.h
@@ -40,14 +40,13 @@ static inline void arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres(void) { }
 static inline void arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event(struct kimage *image, void *arg) { }
 #endif
 
-int crash_check_update_elfcorehdr(void);
+int crash_check_hotplug_support(void);
 
-#ifndef crash_hotplug_cpu_support
-static inline int crash_hotplug_cpu_support(void) { return 0; }
-#endif
-
-#ifndef crash_hotplug_memory_support
-static inline int crash_hotplug_memory_support(void) { return 0; }
+#ifndef arch_crash_hotplug_support
+static inline int arch_crash_hotplug_support(struct kimage *image, unsigned long kexec_flags)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
 #endif
 
 #ifndef crash_get_elfcorehdr_size
diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
index 060835bb82d5..5b93a5767413 100644
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -319,8 +319,10 @@ struct kimage {
 	/* If set, we are using file mode kexec syscall */
 	unsigned int file_mode:1;
 #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
-	/* If set, allow changes to elfcorehdr of kexec_load'd image */
-	unsigned int update_elfcorehdr:1;
+	/* If set, it is safe to update kexec segments that are
+	 * excluded from SHA calculation.
+	 */
+	unsigned int hotplug_support:1;
 #endif
 
 #ifdef ARCH_HAS_KIMAGE_ARCH
@@ -391,9 +393,10 @@ bool kexec_load_permitted(int kexec_image_type);
 
 /* List of defined/legal kexec flags */
 #ifndef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
-#define KEXEC_FLAGS    (KEXEC_ON_CRASH | KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR)
+#define KEXEC_FLAGS    (KEXEC_ON_CRASH | KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR | KEXEC_CRASH_HOTPLUG_SUPPORT)
 #else
-#define KEXEC_FLAGS    (KEXEC_ON_CRASH | KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT | KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR)
+#define KEXEC_FLAGS    (KEXEC_ON_CRASH | KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT | KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR | \
+			KEXEC_CRASH_HOTPLUG_SUPPORT)
 #endif
 
 /* List of defined/legal kexec file flags */
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h b/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
index c17bb096ea68..5ae1741ea8ea 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #define KEXEC_ON_CRASH		0x00000001
 #define KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT	0x00000002
 #define KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR	0x00000004
+#define KEXEC_CRASH_HOTPLUG_SUPPORT 0x00000008
 #define KEXEC_ARCH_MASK		0xffff0000
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
index 70fa8111a9d6..630c4fd7ea39 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(__crash_hotplug_lock);
  * It reflects the kernel's ability/permission to update the crash
  * elfcorehdr directly.
  */
-int crash_check_update_elfcorehdr(void)
+int crash_check_hotplug_support(void)
 {
 	int rc = 0;
 
@@ -508,10 +508,7 @@ int crash_check_update_elfcorehdr(void)
 		return 0;
 	}
 	if (kexec_crash_image) {
-		if (kexec_crash_image->file_mode)
-			rc = 1;
-		else
-			rc = kexec_crash_image->update_elfcorehdr;
+		rc = kexec_crash_image->hotplug_support;
 	}
 	/* Release lock now that update complete */
 	kexec_unlock();
@@ -552,8 +549,8 @@ static void crash_handle_hotplug_event(unsigned int hp_action, unsigned int cpu,
 
 	image = kexec_crash_image;
 
-	/* Check that updating elfcorehdr is permitted */
-	if (!(image->file_mode || image->update_elfcorehdr))
+	/* Check that kexec segments update is permitted */
+	if (!image->hotplug_support)
 		goto out;
 
 	if (hp_action == KEXEC_CRASH_HP_ADD_CPU ||
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index bab542fc1463..a6b3f96bb50c 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ static int do_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,
 		image->preserve_context = 1;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
-	if (flags & KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR)
-		image->update_elfcorehdr = 1;
+	if ((flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) && arch_crash_hotplug_support(image, flags))
+		image->hotplug_support = 1;
 #endif
 
 	ret = machine_kexec_prepare(image);
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
index 2d1db05fbf04..3d64290d24c9 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -376,6 +376,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(kexec_file_load, int, kernel_fd, int, initrd_fd,
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
+	if ((flags & KEXEC_FILE_ON_CRASH) && arch_crash_hotplug_support(image, flags))
+		image->hotplug_support = 1;
+#endif
+
 	ret = machine_kexec_prepare(image);
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
-- 
2.43.0



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