linux.git/fs/proc/vmcore.c, branch v3.13

vmcore: enable /proc/vmcore mmap for s390

2013-09-11T22:59:14+00:00

The patch "s390/vmcore: Implement remap_oldmem_pfn_range for s390" allows
now to use mmap also on s390.

So enable mmap for s390 again.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu 
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke 
Cc: Jan Willeke 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmcore: introduce remap_oldmem_pfn_range()

2013-09-11T22:59:10+00:00

For zfcpdump we can't map the HSA storage because it is only available via
a read interface.  Therefore, for the new vmcore mmap feature we have
introduce a new mechanism to create mappings on demand.

This patch introduces a new architecture function remap_oldmem_pfn_range()
that should be used to create mappings with remap_pfn_range() for oldmem
areas that can be directly mapped.  For zfcpdump this is everything
besides of the HSA memory.  For the areas that are not mapped by
remap_oldmem_pfn_range() a generic vmcore a new generic vmcore fault
handler mmap_vmcore_fault() is called.

This handler works as follows:

* Get already available or new page from page cache (find_or_create_page)
* Check if /proc/vmcore page is filled with data (PageUptodate)
* If yes:
  Return that page
* If no:
  Fill page using __vmcore_read(), set PageUptodate, and return page

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke 
Cc: Jan Willeke 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmcore: introduce ELF header in new memory feature

2013-09-11T22:59:10+00:00

For s390 we want to use /proc/vmcore for our SCSI stand-alone dump
(zfcpdump).  We have support where the first HSA_SIZE bytes are saved into
a hypervisor owned memory area (HSA) before the kdump kernel is booted.
When the kdump kernel starts, it is restricted to use only HSA_SIZE bytes.

The advantages of this mechanism are:

 * No crashkernel memory has to be defined in the old kernel.
 * Early boot problems (before kexec_load has been done) can be dumped
 * Non-Linux systems can be dumped.

We modify the s390 copy_oldmem_page() function to read from the HSA memory
if memory below HSA_SIZE bytes is requested.

Since we cannot use the kexec tool to load the kernel in this scenario,
we have to build the ELF header in the 2nd (kdump/new) kernel.

So with the following patch set we would like to introduce the new
function that the ELF header for /proc/vmcore can be created in the 2nd
kernel memory.

The following steps are done during zfcpdump execution:

1.  Production system crashes
2.  User boots a SCSI disk that has been prepared with the zfcpdump tool
3.  Hypervisor saves CPU state of boot CPU and HSA_SIZE bytes of memory into HSA
4.  Boot loader loads kernel into low memory area
5.  Kernel boots and uses only HSA_SIZE bytes of memory
6.  Kernel saves registers of non-boot CPUs
7.  Kernel does memory detection for dump memory map
8.  Kernel creates ELF header for /proc/vmcore
9.  /proc/vmcore uses this header for initialization
10. The zfcpdump user space reads /proc/vmcore to write dump to SCSI disk
    - copy_oldmem_page() copies from HSA for memory below HSA_SIZE
    - copy_oldmem_page() copies from real memory for memory above HSA_SIZE

Currently for s390 we create the ELF core header in the 2nd kernel with a
small trick.  We relocate the addresses in the ELF header in a way that
for the /proc/vmcore code it seems to be in the 1st kernel (old) memory
and the read_from_oldmem() returns the correct data.  This allows the
/proc/vmcore code to use the ELF header in the 2nd kernel.

This patch:

Exchange the old mechanism with the new and much cleaner function call
override feature that now offcially allows to create the ELF core header
in the 2nd kernel.

To use the new feature the following function have to be defined
by the architecture backend code to read from new memory:

 * elfcorehdr_alloc: Allocate ELF header
 * elfcorehdr_free: Free the memory of the ELF header
 * elfcorehdr_read: Read from ELF header
 * elfcorehdr_read_notes: Read from ELF notes

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke 
Cc: Jan Willeke 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

s390/kdump: Disable mmap for s390

2013-07-18T11:40:18+00:00

The kdump mmap patch series (git commit 83086978c63afd7c73e1c) directly
map the PT_LOADs to memory. On s390 this does not work because the
copy_from_oldmem() function swaps [0,crashkernel size] with
[crashkernel base, crashkernel base+crashkernel size]. The swap
int copy_from_oldmem() was done in order correctly implement /dev/oldmem.

See: http://marc.info/?l=kexec&m=136940802511603&w=2

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

vmcore: support mmap() on /proc/vmcore

2013-07-03T23:07:30+00:00

This patch introduces mmap_vmcore().

Don't permit writable nor executable mapping even with mprotect()
because this mmap() is aimed at reading crash dump memory.  Non-writable
mapping is also requirement of remap_pfn_range() when mapping linear
pages on non-consecutive physical pages; see is_cow_mapping().

Set VM_MIXEDMAP flag to remap memory by remap_pfn_range and by
remap_vmalloc_range_pertial at the same time for a single vma.
do_munmap() can correctly clean partially remapped vma with two
functions in abnormal case.  See zap_pte_range(), vm_normal_page() and
their comments for details.

On x86-32 PAE kernels, mmap() supports at most 16TB memory only.  This
limitation comes from the fact that the third argument of
remap_pfn_range(), pfn, is of 32-bit length on x86-32: unsigned long.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use min(), switch to conventional error-unwinding approach]
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai 
Cc: Lisa Mitchell 
Cc: Zhang Yanfei 
Tested-by: Maxim Uvarov 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmcore: calculate vmcore file size from buffer size and total size of vmcore objects

2013-07-03T23:07:30+00:00

The previous patches newly added holes before each chunk of memory and
the holes need to be count in vmcore file size.  There are two ways to
count file size in such a way:

1) suppose m is a poitner to the last vmcore object in vmcore_list.
   Then file size is (m->offset + m->size), or

2) calculate sum of size of buffers for ELF header, program headers,
   ELF note segments and objects in vmcore_list.

Although 1) is more direct and simpler than 2), 2) seems better in that
it reflects internal object structure of /proc/vmcore.  Thus, this patch
changes get_vmcore_size_elf{64, 32} so that it calculates size in the
way of 2).

As a result, both get_vmcore_size_elf{64, 32} have the same definition.
Merge them as get_vmcore_size.

Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai 
Cc: Lisa Mitchell 
Cc: Zhang Yanfei 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmcore: allow user process to remap ELF note segment buffer

2013-07-03T23:07:30+00:00

Now ELF note segment has been copied in the buffer on vmalloc memory.
To allow user process to remap the ELF note segment buffer with
remap_vmalloc_page, the corresponding VM area object has to have
VM_USERMAP flag set.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use the conventional comment layout]
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai 
Cc: Lisa Mitchell 
Cc: Zhang Yanfei 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmcore: allocate ELF note segment in the 2nd kernel vmalloc memory

2013-07-03T23:07:30+00:00

The reasons why we don't allocate ELF note segment in the 1st kernel
(old memory) on page boundary is to keep backward compatibility for old
kernels, and that if doing so, we waste not a little memory due to
round-up operation to fit the memory to page boundary since most of the
buffers are in per-cpu area.

ELF notes are per-cpu, so total size of ELF note segments depends on
number of CPUs.  The current maximum number of CPUs on x86_64 is 5192,
and there's already system with 4192 CPUs in SGI, where total size
amounts to 1MB.  This can be larger in the near future or possibly even
now on another architecture that has larger size of note per a single
cpu.  Thus, to avoid the case where memory allocation for large block
fails, we allocate vmcore objects on vmalloc memory.

This patch adds elfnotes_buf and elfnotes_sz variables to keep pointer
to the ELF note segment buffer and its size.  There's no longer the
vmcore object that corresponds to the ELF note segment in vmcore_list.
Accordingly, read_vmcore() has new case for ELF note segment and
set_vmcore_list_offsets_elf{64,32}() and other helper functions starts
calculating offset from sum of size of ELF headers and size of ELF note
segment.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use min(), fix error-path vzalloc() leaks]
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai 
Cc: Lisa Mitchell 
Cc: Zhang Yanfei 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmcore: treat memory chunks referenced by PT_LOAD program header entries in page-size boundary in vmcore_list

2013-07-03T23:07:30+00:00

Treat memory chunks referenced by PT_LOAD program header entries in
page-size boundary in vmcore_list.  Formally, for each range [start,
end], we set up the corresponding vmcore object in vmcore_list to
[rounddown(start, PAGE_SIZE), roundup(end, PAGE_SIZE)].

This change affects layout of /proc/vmcore.  The gaps generated by the
rearrangement are newly made visible to applications as holes.
Concretely, they are two ranges [rounddown(start, PAGE_SIZE), start] and
[end, roundup(end, PAGE_SIZE)].

Suppose variable m points at a vmcore object in vmcore_list, and
variable phdr points at the program header of PT_LOAD type the variable
m corresponds to.  Then, pictorially:

  m->offset                    +---------------+
                               | hole          |
phdr->p_offset =               +---------------+
  m->offset + (paddr - start)  |               |\
                               | kernel memory | phdr->p_memsz
                               |               |/
                               +---------------+
                               | hole          |
  m->offset + m->size          +---------------+

where m->offset and m->offset + m->size are always page-size aligned.

Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai 
Cc: Lisa Mitchell 
Cc: Zhang Yanfei 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmcore: allocate buffer for ELF headers on page-size alignment

2013-07-03T23:07:30+00:00

Allocate ELF headers on page-size boundary using __get_free_pages()
instead of kmalloc().

Later patch will merge PT_NOTE entries into a single unique one and
decrease the buffer size actually used.  Keep original buffer size in
variable elfcorebuf_sz_orig to kfree the buffer later and actually used
buffer size with rounded up to page-size boundary in variable
elfcorebuf_sz separately.

The size of part of the ELF buffer exported from /proc/vmcore is
elfcorebuf_sz.

The merged, removed PT_NOTE entries, i.e.  the range [elfcorebuf_sz,
elfcorebuf_sz_orig], is filled with 0.

Use size of the ELF headers as an initial offset value in
set_vmcore_list_offsets_elf{64,32} and
process_ptload_program_headers_elf{64,32} in order to indicate that the
offset includes the holes towards the page boundary.

As a result, both set_vmcore_list_offsets_elf{64,32} have the same
definition.  Merge them as set_vmcore_list_offsets.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add free_elfcorebuf(), cleanups]
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai 
Cc: Lisa Mitchell 
Cc: Zhang Yanfei 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds