Changelog
v1 - v2
- No changes to patches, addressed suggestion from James Morse
to add "arm64" tag to cover letter.
- Improved cover letter information based on discussion.
Currently, it is only allowed to reserve memory for crash kernel, because
it is a requirement in order to be able to boot into crash kernel without
touching memory of crashed kernel is to have memory reserved.
The second benefit for having memory reserved for kexec kernel is
that it does not require a relocation after segments are loaded into
memory.
If kexec functionality is used for a fast system update, with a minimal
downtime, the relocation of kernel + initramfs might take a significant
portion of reboot.
In fact, on the machine that we are using, that has ARM64 processor
it takes 0.35s to relocate during kexec, thus taking 52% of kernel reboot
time:
kernel shutdown 0.03s
relocation 0.35s
kernel startup 0.29s
Image: 13M and initramfs is 24M. If initramfs increases, the relocation
time increases proportionally.
While, it is possible to add 'kexeckernel=' parameters support to other
architectures by modifying reserve_crashkernel(), in this series this is
done for arm64 only.
The reason it is so slow on arm64 to relocate kernel is because the code
that does relocation does this with MMU disabled, and thus D-Cache and
I-Cache must also be disabled.
Alternative solution is more complicated: Setup a temporary page table
for relocation_routine and also for code from cpu_soft_restart. Perform
relocation with MMU enabled, do cpu_soft_restart where MMU and caching
are disabled, jump to purgatory. A similar approach was suggested for
purgatory and was rejected due to making purgatory too complicated.
On, the other hand hibernate does something similar already, but there
MMU never needs to be disabled, and also by the time machine_kexec()
is called, allocator is not available, as we can't fail to do reboot,
so page table must be pre-allocated during kernel load time.
Note: the above time is relocation time only. Purgatory usually also
computes checksum, but that is skipped, because --no-check is used when
kernel image is loaded via kexec.
Pavel Tatashin (5):
kexec: quiet down kexec reboot
kexec: add resource for normal kexec region
kexec: export common crashkernel/kexeckernel parser
kexec: use reserved memory for normal kexec reboot
arm64, kexec: reserve kexeckernel region
.../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++
arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++
arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 83 ++++++++++++-------
include/linux/crash_core.h | 6 ++
include/linux/ioport.h | 1 +
include/linux/kexec.h | 6 +-
kernel/crash_core.c | 27 +++---
kernel/kexec_core.c | 50 +++++++----
8 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
--
2.22.0
To reserve memory for normal kexec reboot, the new parameter:
kexeckernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] is used. Its syntax is the
same as craskernel=, therefore they can use the same function to
parse parameter settings.
Rename: __parse_crashkernel() to parse_crash_or_kexec_kernel(), and
make it public.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
---
.../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++
include/linux/crash_core.h | 6 +++++
kernel/crash_core.c | 27 ++++++++++---------
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 5c7a0f5b0a2f..0f5ce665c7f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -739,6 +739,13 @@
It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
or memory reserved is below 4G.
+ kexeckernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
+ [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can reboot to a new kernel.
+ This parameter reserves the physical memory region
+ [offset, offset + size] for that kernel. If '@offset' is
+ omitted, then a suitable offset is selected
+ automatically.
+
cryptomgr.notests
[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
diff --git a/include/linux/crash_core.h b/include/linux/crash_core.h
index 525510a9f965..e90789ff0bec 100644
--- a/include/linux/crash_core.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_core.h
@@ -74,5 +74,11 @@ int parse_crashkernel_high(char *cmdline, unsigned long long system_ram,
unsigned long long *crash_size, unsigned long long *crash_base);
int parse_crashkernel_low(char *cmdline, unsigned long long system_ram,
unsigned long long *crash_size, unsigned long long *crash_base);
+int parse_crash_or_kexec_kernel(char *cmdline,
+ unsigned long long system_ram,
+ unsigned long long *crash_size,
+ unsigned long long *crash_base,
+ const char *name,
+ const char *suffix);
#endif /* LINUX_CRASH_CORE_H */
diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
index 9f1557b98468..11e0f9837a32 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
@@ -224,12 +224,12 @@ static __init char *get_last_crashkernel(char *cmdline,
return ck_cmdline;
}
-static int __init __parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline,
- unsigned long long system_ram,
- unsigned long long *crash_size,
- unsigned long long *crash_base,
- const char *name,
- const char *suffix)
+int __init parse_crash_or_kexec_kernel(char *cmdline,
+ unsigned long long system_ram,
+ unsigned long long *crash_size,
+ unsigned long long *crash_base,
+ const char *name,
+ const char *suffix)
{
char *first_colon, *first_space;
char *ck_cmdline;
@@ -270,8 +270,9 @@ int __init parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline,
unsigned long long *crash_size,
unsigned long long *crash_base)
{
- return __parse_crashkernel(cmdline, system_ram, crash_size, crash_base,
- "crashkernel=", NULL);
+ return parse_crash_or_kexec_kernel(cmdline, system_ram, crash_size,
+ crash_base, "crashkernel=",
+ NULL);
}
int __init parse_crashkernel_high(char *cmdline,
@@ -279,8 +280,9 @@ int __init parse_crashkernel_high(char *cmdline,
unsigned long long *crash_size,
unsigned long long *crash_base)
{
- return __parse_crashkernel(cmdline, system_ram, crash_size, crash_base,
- "crashkernel=", suffix_tbl[SUFFIX_HIGH]);
+ return parse_crash_or_kexec_kernel(cmdline, system_ram, crash_size,
+ crash_base, "crashkernel=",
+ suffix_tbl[SUFFIX_HIGH]);
}
int __init parse_crashkernel_low(char *cmdline,
@@ -288,8 +290,9 @@ int __init parse_crashkernel_low(char *cmdline,
unsigned long long *crash_size,
unsigned long long *crash_base)
{
- return __parse_crashkernel(cmdline, system_ram, crash_size, crash_base,
- "crashkernel=", suffix_tbl[SUFFIX_LOW]);
+ return parse_crash_or_kexec_kernel(cmdline, system_ram, crash_size,
+ crash_base, "crashkernel=",
+ suffix_tbl[SUFFIX_LOW]);
}
Elf_Word *append_elf_note(Elf_Word *buf, char *name, unsigned int type,
--
2.22.0
On 07/09/19 at 02:20pm, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> Changelog
> v1 - v2
> - No changes to patches, addressed suggestion from James Morse
> to add "arm64" tag to cover letter.
> - Improved cover letter information based on discussion.
>
> Currently, it is only allowed to reserve memory for crash kernel, because
> it is a requirement in order to be able to boot into crash kernel without
> touching memory of crashed kernel is to have memory reserved.
>
> The second benefit for having memory reserved for kexec kernel is
> that it does not require a relocation after segments are loaded into
> memory.
>
> If kexec functionality is used for a fast system update, with a minimal
> downtime, the relocation of kernel + initramfs might take a significant
> portion of reboot.
>
> In fact, on the machine that we are using, that has ARM64 processor
> it takes 0.35s to relocate during kexec, thus taking 52% of kernel reboot
> time:
>
> kernel shutdown 0.03s
> relocation 0.35s
> kernel startup 0.29s
>
> Image: 13M and initramfs is 24M. If initramfs increases, the relocation
> time increases proportionally.
>
> While, it is possible to add 'kexeckernel=' parameters support to other
> architectures by modifying reserve_crashkernel(), in this series this is
> done for arm64 only.
>
> The reason it is so slow on arm64 to relocate kernel is because the code
> that does relocation does this with MMU disabled, and thus D-Cache and
> I-Cache must also be disabled.
>
> Alternative solution is more complicated: Setup a temporary page table
> for relocation_routine and also for code from cpu_soft_restart. Perform
> relocation with MMU enabled, do cpu_soft_restart where MMU and caching
> are disabled, jump to purgatory. A similar approach was suggested for
> purgatory and was rejected due to making purgatory too complicated.
The crashkernel reservation for kdump is a must, there are already a lot
of different problems need to consider, for example the low and high
memory issues, and a lot of other things. I'm not convinced to enable
this for kexec reboot.
This really looks to workaround the arm64 issue and move the
complication to kernel.
> On, the other hand hibernate does something similar already, but there
> MMU never needs to be disabled, and also by the time machine_kexec()
> is called, allocator is not available, as we can't fail to do reboot,
> so page table must be pre-allocated during kernel load time.
>
> Note: the above time is relocation time only. Purgatory usually also
> computes checksum, but that is skipped, because --no-check is used when
> kernel image is loaded via kexec.
>
> Pavel Tatashin (5):
> kexec: quiet down kexec reboot
> kexec: add resource for normal kexec region
> kexec: export common crashkernel/kexeckernel parser
> kexec: use reserved memory for normal kexec reboot
> arm64, kexec: reserve kexeckernel region
>
> .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++
> arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++
> arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 83 ++++++++++++-------
> include/linux/crash_core.h | 6 ++
> include/linux/ioport.h | 1 +
> include/linux/kexec.h | 6 +-
> kernel/crash_core.c | 27 +++---
> kernel/kexec_core.c | 50 +++++++----
> 8 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.22.0
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> kexec mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
Thanks
Dave
Hi Pavel,
On 07/09/2019 11:50 PM, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> Changelog
> v1 - v2
> - No changes to patches, addressed suggestion from James Morse
> to add "arm64" tag to cover letter.
Minor nit. Please also add PATCH to the subject line. Something like
[PATCH v2]
Also will suggest to wait for atleast a couple of days before sending a
new version of the patchset so as to give sufficient time for reviews to
happen.
> - Improved cover letter information based on discussion.
> Currently, it is only allowed to reserve memory for crash kernel, because
> it is a requirement in order to be able to boot into crash kernel without
> touching memory of crashed kernel is to have memory reserved.
> The second benefit for having memory reserved for kexec kernel is
> that it does not require a relocation after segments are loaded into
> memory.
> If kexec functionality is used for a fast system update, with a minimal
> downtime, the relocation of kernel + initramfs might take a significant
> portion of reboot.
>
> In fact, on the machine that we are using, that has ARM64 processor
> it takes 0.35s to relocate during kexec, thus taking 52% of kernel reboot
> time:
>
> kernel shutdown 0.03s
> relocation 0.35s
> kernel startup 0.29s
>
> Image: 13M and initramfs is 24M. If initramfs increases, the relocation
> time increases proportionally.
>
> While, it is possible to add 'kexeckernel=' parameters support to other
> architectures by modifying reserve_crashkernel(), in this series this is
> done for arm64 only.
Note that we normally have two dimensions to this (and similar)
problem(s) - time we spend in relocating the kernel + initramfs v/s the
memory space we reserve while enabling kexeckernel (in this case) in the
primary kernel.
Just to give you an example, I have to shrink even the crashkernel
reservation size in the primary kernel on arm64 systems running fedora
which have very small memory footprint. I have a amazon ec2 (aarch64)
for example which runs with 256M memory space and even enabling
crashkernel on the same was quite a challenge :)
In such a case we need to do a comparison between the space we reserve
v/s the time we spend while relocating while doing a kexec load.
Note that we recently had issues with OOM in crashkernel boot, because
of which we had to introduce kernel command-line parameter to allow a
user to disable device dump to reduce memory usage, see the following
commit:
a3a3031b384f ("vmcore: Add a kernel parameter novmcoredd")
More on the same below ...
> The reason it is so slow on arm64 to relocate kernel is because the code
> that does relocation does this with MMU disabled, and thus D-Cache and
> I-Cache must also be disabled.
>
> Alternative solution is more complicated: Setup a temporary page table
> for relocation_routine and also for code from cpu_soft_restart. Perform
> relocation with MMU enabled, do cpu_soft_restart where MMU and caching
> are disabled, jump to purgatory. A similar approach was suggested for
> purgatory and was rejected due to making purgatory too complicated.
> On, the other hand hibernate does something similar already, but there
> MMU never needs to be disabled, and also by the time machine_kexec()
> is called, allocator is not available, as we can't fail to do reboot,
> so page table must be pre-allocated during kernel load time.
... may be its time to explore this path now with a fresh mind. I know
Pratyush tried a bit on this and now I am experimenting on the same on
several aarch64 systems, mainly because we are really short on memory
resources on several aarch64 systems (used in embedded/cloud domain) and
frequently run into OOM issues even in the primary kernel.
Some more comments below:
1. I recommend protecting this code under a CONFIG (CONFIG_FAST_KEXEC ?)
option and make it dependent on ARM64 being enabled (via CONFIG_ARM64
option) to avoid causing issues on other archs like s390, powerpc,
x86_64 (which probably don't need these changes).
Also better to make the CONFIG option disabled by default, so that we
can avoid OOM issues in primary kernel on arm64 systems with smaller
memory footprints. A user can enabled it, if he needs fast kexec load
experience..
2. Also, I don't see timing results for kexec_file_load() in this cover
letter. Can you add some results for the same here, or are they on
similar lines?
I will give this a go on some aarch64 systems at my end and come back
with more on the kernel + initramfs relocation time v/s memory space
taken up results.
Thanks,
Bhupesh
> Note: the above time is relocation time only. Purgatory usually also
> computes checksum, but that is skipped, because --no-check is used when
> kernel image is loaded via kexec.
>
> Pavel Tatashin (5):
> kexec: quiet down kexec reboot
> kexec: add resource for normal kexec region
> kexec: export common crashkernel/kexeckernel parser
> kexec: use reserved memory for normal kexec reboot
> arm64, kexec: reserve kexeckernel region
>
> .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++
> arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++
> arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 83 ++++++++++++-------
> include/linux/crash_core.h | 6 ++
> include/linux/ioport.h | 1 +
> include/linux/kexec.h | 6 +-
> kernel/crash_core.c | 27 +++---
> kernel/kexec_core.c | 50 +++++++----
> 8 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
>
On 09/07/2019 20:20, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> Changelog
> v1 - v2
> - No changes to patches, addressed suggestion from James Morse
> to add "arm64" tag to cover letter.
> - Improved cover letter information based on discussion.
>
> Currently, it is only allowed to reserve memory for crash kernel, because
> it is a requirement in order to be able to boot into crash kernel without
> touching memory of crashed kernel is to have memory reserved.
>
> The second benefit for having memory reserved for kexec kernel is
> that it does not require a relocation after segments are loaded into
> memory.
>
> If kexec functionality is used for a fast system update, with a minimal
> downtime, the relocation of kernel + initramfs might take a significant
> portion of reboot.
>
> In fact, on the machine that we are using, that has ARM64 processor
> it takes 0.35s to relocate during kexec, thus taking 52% of kernel reboot
> time:
>
> kernel shutdown 0.03s
> relocation 0.35s
> kernel startup 0.29s
>
> Image: 13M and initramfs is 24M. If initramfs increases, the relocation
> time increases proportionally.
>
> While, it is possible to add 'kexeckernel=' parameters support to other
> architectures by modifying reserve_crashkernel(), in this series this is
> done for arm64 only.
>
I wonder if we couldn't use the crashkernel reserved memory area for that and
just add logic to kexec-tools to pass to the kernel a flag (a new magic reboot
number?) to use the crashkernel memory for that?
The kernel would then unload the crash/capture system in the reserved memory
area and reuse the latter for kexec.
This would also enable the feature for all architectures.
Regards,
Matthias
> The reason it is so slow on arm64 to relocate kernel is because the code
> that does relocation does this with MMU disabled, and thus D-Cache and
> I-Cache must also be disabled.
>
> Alternative solution is more complicated: Setup a temporary page table
> for relocation_routine and also for code from cpu_soft_restart. Perform
> relocation with MMU enabled, do cpu_soft_restart where MMU and caching
> are disabled, jump to purgatory. A similar approach was suggested for
> purgatory and was rejected due to making purgatory too complicated.
> On, the other hand hibernate does something similar already, but there
> MMU never needs to be disabled, and also by the time machine_kexec()
> is called, allocator is not available, as we can't fail to do reboot,
> so page table must be pre-allocated during kernel load time.
>
> Note: the above time is relocation time only. Purgatory usually also
> computes checksum, but that is skipped, because --no-check is used when
> kernel image is loaded via kexec.
>
> Pavel Tatashin (5):
> kexec: quiet down kexec reboot
> kexec: add resource for normal kexec region
> kexec: export common crashkernel/kexeckernel parser
> kexec: use reserved memory for normal kexec reboot
> arm64, kexec: reserve kexeckernel region
>
> .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++
> arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++
> arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 83 ++++++++++++-------
> include/linux/crash_core.h | 6 ++
> include/linux/ioport.h | 1 +
> include/linux/kexec.h | 6 +-
> kernel/crash_core.c | 27 +++---
> kernel/kexec_core.c | 50 +++++++----
> 8 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
>
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 3:32 AM Bhupesh Sharma <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Pavel,
>
> On 07/09/2019 11:50 PM, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> > Changelog
> > v1 - v2
> > - No changes to patches, addressed suggestion from James Morse
> > to add "arm64" tag to cover letter.
>
> Minor nit. Please also add PATCH to the subject line. Something like
> [PATCH v2]
OK
>
> Also will suggest to wait for atleast a couple of days before sending a
> new version of the patchset so as to give sufficient time for reviews to
> happen.
OK
>
> > - Improved cover letter information based on discussion.
>
> > Currently, it is only allowed to reserve memory for crash kernel, because
> > it is a requirement in order to be able to boot into crash kernel without
> > touching memory of crashed kernel is to have memory reserved.
>
> > The second benefit for having memory reserved for kexec kernel is
> > that it does not require a relocation after segments are loaded into
> > memory.
>
> > If kexec functionality is used for a fast system update, with a minimal
> > downtime, the relocation of kernel + initramfs might take a significant
> > portion of reboot.
> >
> > In fact, on the machine that we are using, that has ARM64 processor
> > it takes 0.35s to relocate during kexec, thus taking 52% of kernel reboot
> > time:
> >
> > kernel shutdown 0.03s
> > relocation 0.35s
> > kernel startup 0.29s
> >
> > Image: 13M and initramfs is 24M. If initramfs increases, the relocation
> > time increases proportionally.
> >
> > While, it is possible to add 'kexeckernel=' parameters support to other
> > architectures by modifying reserve_crashkernel(), in this series this is
> > done for arm64 only.
>
> Note that we normally have two dimensions to this (and similar)
> problem(s) - time we spend in relocating the kernel + initramfs v/s the
> memory space we reserve while enabling kexeckernel (in this case) in the
> primary kernel.
Yes, for our specific case (Microsoft), it is more important to faster
reboot and have 64M permanently reserved. However, after thinking
about this, I decided to go ahead, and implement MMU enabled kernel
relocation for ARM64.
>
> Just to give you an example, I have to shrink even the crashkernel
> reservation size in the primary kernel on arm64 systems running fedora
> which have very small memory footprint. I have a amazon ec2 (aarch64)
> for example which runs with 256M memory space and even enabling
> crashkernel on the same was quite a challenge :)
>
> In such a case we need to do a comparison between the space we reserve
> v/s the time we spend while relocating while doing a kexec load.
>
> Note that we recently had issues with OOM in crashkernel boot, because
> of which we had to introduce kernel command-line parameter to allow a
> user to disable device dump to reduce memory usage, see the following
> commit:
>
> a3a3031b384f ("vmcore: Add a kernel parameter novmcoredd")
>
> More on the same below ...
>
> > The reason it is so slow on arm64 to relocate kernel is because the code
> > that does relocation does this with MMU disabled, and thus D-Cache and
> > I-Cache must also be disabled.
> >
> > Alternative solution is more complicated: Setup a temporary page table
> > for relocation_routine and also for code from cpu_soft_restart. Perform
> > relocation with MMU enabled, do cpu_soft_restart where MMU and caching
> > are disabled, jump to purgatory. A similar approach was suggested for
> > purgatory and was rejected due to making purgatory too complicated.
> > On, the other hand hibernate does something similar already, but there
> > MMU never needs to be disabled, and also by the time machine_kexec()
> > is called, allocator is not available, as we can't fail to do reboot,
> > so page table must be pre-allocated during kernel load time.
>
> ... may be its time to explore this path now with a fresh mind. I know
> Pratyush tried a bit on this and now I am experimenting on the same on
> several aarch64 systems, mainly because we are really short on memory
> resources on several aarch64 systems (used in embedded/cloud domain) and
> frequently run into OOM issues even in the primary kernel.
>
> Some more comments below:
>
> 1. I recommend protecting this code under a CONFIG (CONFIG_FAST_KEXEC ?)
> option and make it dependent on ARM64 being enabled (via CONFIG_ARM64
> option) to avoid causing issues on other archs like s390, powerpc,
> x86_64 (which probably don't need these changes).
>
> Also better to make the CONFIG option disabled by default, so that we
> can avoid OOM issues in primary kernel on arm64 systems with smaller
> memory footprints. A user can enabled it, if he needs fast kexec load
> experience..
>
> 2. Also, I don't see timing results for kexec_file_load() in this cover
> letter. Can you add some results for the same here, or are they on
> similar lines?
>
> I will give this a go on some aarch64 systems at my end and come back
> with more on the kernel + initramfs relocation time v/s memory space
> taken up results.
>
> Thanks,
> Bhupesh
>
> > Note: the above time is relocation time only. Purgatory usually also
> > computes checksum, but that is skipped, because --no-check is used when
> > kernel image is loaded via kexec.
> >
> > Pavel Tatashin (5):
> > kexec: quiet down kexec reboot
> > kexec: add resource for normal kexec region
> > kexec: export common crashkernel/kexeckernel parser
> > kexec: use reserved memory for normal kexec reboot
> > arm64, kexec: reserve kexeckernel region
> >
> > .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++
> > arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++
> > arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 83 ++++++++++++-------
> > include/linux/crash_core.h | 6 ++
> > include/linux/ioport.h | 1 +
> > include/linux/kexec.h | 6 +-
> > kernel/crash_core.c | 27 +++---
> > kernel/kexec_core.c | 50 +++++++----
> > 8 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
> >
>
> The crashkernel reservation for kdump is a must, there are already a lot
> of different problems need to consider, for example the low and high
> memory issues, and a lot of other things. I'm not convinced to enable
> this for kexec reboot.
>
> This really looks to workaround the arm64 issue and move the
> complication to kernel.
I will be working on MMU arm64 kernel relocation solution.
Pasha
>
> > On, the other hand hibernate does something similar already, but there
> > MMU never needs to be disabled, and also by the time machine_kexec()
> > is called, allocator is not available, as we can't fail to do reboot,
> > so page table must be pre-allocated during kernel load time.
> >
> > Note: the above time is relocation time only. Purgatory usually also
> > computes checksum, but that is skipped, because --no-check is used when
> > kernel image is loaded via kexec.
> >
> > Pavel Tatashin (5):
> > kexec: quiet down kexec reboot
> > kexec: add resource for normal kexec region
> > kexec: export common crashkernel/kexeckernel parser
> > kexec: use reserved memory for normal kexec reboot
> > arm64, kexec: reserve kexeckernel region
> >
> > .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++
> > arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++
> > arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 83 ++++++++++++-------
> > include/linux/crash_core.h | 6 ++
> > include/linux/ioport.h | 1 +
> > include/linux/kexec.h | 6 +-
> > kernel/crash_core.c | 27 +++---
> > kernel/kexec_core.c | 50 +++++++----
> > 8 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.22.0
> >
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> Thanks
> Dave
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 11:28 AM Matthias Brugger
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 09/07/2019 20:20, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> > Changelog
> > v1 - v2
> > - No changes to patches, addressed suggestion from James Morse
> > to add "arm64" tag to cover letter.
> > - Improved cover letter information based on discussion.
> >
> > Currently, it is only allowed to reserve memory for crash kernel, because
> > it is a requirement in order to be able to boot into crash kernel without
> > touching memory of crashed kernel is to have memory reserved.
> >
> > The second benefit for having memory reserved for kexec kernel is
> > that it does not require a relocation after segments are loaded into
> > memory.
> >
> > If kexec functionality is used for a fast system update, with a minimal
> > downtime, the relocation of kernel + initramfs might take a significant
> > portion of reboot.
> >
> > In fact, on the machine that we are using, that has ARM64 processor
> > it takes 0.35s to relocate during kexec, thus taking 52% of kernel reboot
> > time:
> >
> > kernel shutdown 0.03s
> > relocation 0.35s
> > kernel startup 0.29s
> >
> > Image: 13M and initramfs is 24M. If initramfs increases, the relocation
> > time increases proportionally.
> >
> > While, it is possible to add 'kexeckernel=' parameters support to other
> > architectures by modifying reserve_crashkernel(), in this series this is
> > done for arm64 only.
> >
>
> I wonder if we couldn't use the crashkernel reserved memory area for that and
> just add logic to kexec-tools to pass to the kernel a flag (a new magic reboot
> number?) to use the crashkernel memory for that?
> The kernel would then unload the crash/capture system in the reserved memory
> area and reuse the latter for kexec.
> This would also enable the feature for all architectures.
I decided to take another route: enable MMU during kernel relocation
on ARM64. This will eliminate the problem that I am experiencing with
slow relocation.
Pasha
>
> Regards,
> Matthias
>
> > The reason it is so slow on arm64 to relocate kernel is because the code
> > that does relocation does this with MMU disabled, and thus D-Cache and
> > I-Cache must also be disabled.
> >
> > Alternative solution is more complicated: Setup a temporary page table
> > for relocation_routine and also for code from cpu_soft_restart. Perform
> > relocation with MMU enabled, do cpu_soft_restart where MMU and caching
> > are disabled, jump to purgatory. A similar approach was suggested for
> > purgatory and was rejected due to making purgatory too complicated.
> > On, the other hand hibernate does something similar already, but there
> > MMU never needs to be disabled, and also by the time machine_kexec()
> > is called, allocator is not available, as we can't fail to do reboot,
> > so page table must be pre-allocated during kernel load time.
> >
> > Note: the above time is relocation time only. Purgatory usually also
> > computes checksum, but that is skipped, because --no-check is used when
> > kernel image is loaded via kexec.
> >
> > Pavel Tatashin (5):
> > kexec: quiet down kexec reboot
> > kexec: add resource for normal kexec region
> > kexec: export common crashkernel/kexeckernel parser
> > kexec: use reserved memory for normal kexec reboot
> > arm64, kexec: reserve kexeckernel region
> >
> > .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++
> > arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++
> > arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 83 ++++++++++++-------
> > include/linux/crash_core.h | 6 ++
> > include/linux/ioport.h | 1 +
> > include/linux/kexec.h | 6 +-
> > kernel/crash_core.c | 27 +++---
> > kernel/kexec_core.c | 50 +++++++----
> > 8 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
> >