2007-09-13 16:15:05

by Bernhard Walle

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Subject: [patch 1/7] Extended crashkernel command line

This is the generic part of the patch. It adds a parse_crashkernel() function
in kernel/kexec.c that is called by the architecture specific code that
actually reserves the memory. That function takes the whole command line and
looks itself for "crashkernel=" in it.

If there are multiple occurrences, then the last one is taken. The advantage
is that if you have a bootloader like lilo or elilo which allows you to append
a command line parameter but not to remove one (like in GRUB), then you can add
another crashkernel value for testing at the boot command line and this one
overwrites the command line in the configuration then.


Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[email protected]>

---
include/linux/kexec.h | 2
kernel/kexec.c | 139 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 141 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -179,6 +179,8 @@ extern note_buf_t *crash_notes;
extern u32 vmcoreinfo_note[VMCOREINFO_NOTE_SIZE/4];
extern unsigned int vmcoreinfo_size;
extern unsigned int vmcoreinfo_max_size;
+int parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline, unsigned long long system_ram,
+ unsigned long long *crash_size, unsigned long long *crash_base);


#else /* !CONFIG_KEXEC */
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -1146,6 +1146,145 @@ static int __init crash_notes_memory_ini
}
module_init(crash_notes_memory_init)

+
+/*
+ * parsing the "crashkernel" commandline
+ *
+ * this code is intended to be called from architecture specific code
+ */
+
+
+/*
+ * This function parses command lines in the format
+ *
+ * crashkernel=<ramsize-range>:<size>[,...][@<base>]
+ *
+ * The function returns 0 on success and -EINVAL on failure.
+ */
+static int parse_crashkernel_mem(char *cmdline,
+ unsigned long long *crash_size,
+ unsigned long long *crash_base,
+ unsigned long system_ram)
+{
+ char *cur = cmdline;
+
+ *crash_size = 0;
+ *crash_base = 0;
+
+ /* for each entry of the comma-separated list */
+ do {
+ unsigned long long start = 0, end = ULLONG_MAX;
+ unsigned long long size = -1;
+
+ /* get the start of the range */
+ start = memparse(cur, &cur);
+ if (*cur != '-') {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "crashkernel: '-' expected\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ cur++;
+
+ /* if no ':' is here, than we read the end */
+ if (*cur != ':') {
+ end = memparse(cur, &cur);
+ if (end <= start) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "crashkernel: end <= start\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (*cur != ':') {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "crashkernel: ':' expected\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ cur++;
+
+ size = memparse(cur, &cur);
+ if (size < 0) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "crashkernel: invalid size\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ /* match ? */
+ if (system_ram >= start && system_ram <= end) {
+ *crash_size = size;
+ break;
+ }
+ } while (*cur++ == ',');
+
+ if (*crash_size > 0) {
+ while (*cur != ' ' && *cur != '@')
+ cur++;
+ if (*cur == '@')
+ *crash_base = memparse(cur+1, &cur);
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * That function parses "simple" (old) crashkernel command lines like
+ *
+ * crashkernel=size[@base]
+ *
+ * It returns 0 on success and -EINVAL on failure.
+ */
+static int parse_crashkernel_simple(char *cmdline,
+ unsigned long long *crash_size,
+ unsigned long long *crash_base)
+{
+ char *cur = cmdline;
+
+ *crash_size = memparse(cmdline, &cur);
+ if (cmdline == cur)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (*cur == '@')
+ *crash_base = memparse(cur+1, &cur);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * That function is the entry point for command line parsing and should be
+ * called from the arch-specific code.
+ */
+int parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline,
+ unsigned long long system_ram,
+ unsigned long long *crash_size,
+ unsigned long long *crash_base)
+{
+ char *p = cmdline, *ck_cmdline = NULL;
+ char *first_colon, *first_space;
+
+ /* find crashkernel and use the last one if there are more */
+ p = strstr(p, "crashkernel=");
+ while (p) {
+ ck_cmdline = p;
+ p = strstr(p+1, "crashkernel=");
+ }
+
+ if (!ck_cmdline)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ ck_cmdline += 12; /* strlen("crashkernel=") */
+
+ /*
+ * if the commandline contains a ':', then that's the extended
+ * syntax -- if not, it must be the classic syntax
+ */
+ first_colon = strchr(ck_cmdline, ':');
+ first_space = strchr(ck_cmdline, ' ');
+ if (first_colon && (!first_space || first_colon < first_space))
+ return parse_crashkernel_mem(ck_cmdline, crash_size,
+ crash_base, system_ram);
+ else
+ return parse_crashkernel_simple(ck_cmdline,
+ crash_size, crash_base);
+}
+
+
+
void crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
{
u32 *buf;

--


2007-09-19 22:32:42

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] Extended crashkernel command line

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:14:29 +0200
Bernhard Walle <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is the generic part of the patch. It adds a parse_crashkernel() function
> in kernel/kexec.c that is called by the architecture specific code that
> actually reserves the memory. That function takes the whole command line and
> looks itself for "crashkernel=" in it.
>
> If there are multiple occurrences, then the last one is taken. The advantage
> is that if you have a bootloader like lilo or elilo which allows you to append
> a command line parameter but not to remove one (like in GRUB), then you can add
> another crashkernel value for testing at the boot command line and this one
> overwrites the command line in the configuration then.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[email protected]>
>
> ---
> include/linux/kexec.h | 2
> kernel/kexec.c | 139 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 141 insertions(+)
>
> --- a/include/linux/kexec.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
> @@ -179,6 +179,8 @@ extern note_buf_t *crash_notes;
> extern u32 vmcoreinfo_note[VMCOREINFO_NOTE_SIZE/4];
> extern unsigned int vmcoreinfo_size;
> extern unsigned int vmcoreinfo_max_size;
> +int parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline, unsigned long long system_ram,
> + unsigned long long *crash_size, unsigned long long *crash_base);
>
>
> #else /* !CONFIG_KEXEC */
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -1146,6 +1146,145 @@ static int __init crash_notes_memory_ini
> }
> module_init(crash_notes_memory_init)
>
> +
> +/*
> + * parsing the "crashkernel" commandline
> + *
> + * this code is intended to be called from architecture specific code
> + */
> +
> +
> +/*
> + * This function parses command lines in the format
> + *
> + * crashkernel=<ramsize-range>:<size>[,...][@<base>]
> + *
> + * The function returns 0 on success and -EINVAL on failure.
> + */
> +static int parse_crashkernel_mem(char *cmdline,
> + unsigned long long *crash_size,
> + unsigned long long *crash_base,
> + unsigned long system_ram)
> +{

The patchset seems to be putting a large amount of stuff into .text
which could have gone into .text.init?