Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751248AbbGJEFg (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:05:36 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f169.google.com ([209.85.192.169]:36586 "EHLO mail-pd0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750707AbbGJEF3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:05:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 12:05:27 +0800 From: Minfei Huang To: Michael Holzheu Cc: Vivek Goyal , ebiederm@xmission.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, linux390@de.ibm.com, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] kexec: Make a pair of map and unmap reserved pages when kdump fails to start Message-ID: <20150710040527.GA3642@dhcp-128-21.nay.redhat.com> References: <1435801552-1230-1-git-send-email-mnfhuang@gmail.com> <20150707211840.GA4388@redhat.com> <20150709175411.7037a4fa@holzheu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150709175411.7037a4fa@holzheu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4234 Lines: 146 On 07/09/15 at 05:54P, Michael Holzheu wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 17:18:40 -0400 > Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 09:45:52AM +0800, Minfei Huang wrote: > > [snip] > > > I am thinking of moving kernel loading code in a separate function to > > make things little simpler. Right now it is confusing. > > > > Can you please test attached patch. I have only compile tested it. This > > is primarily doing what you are doing but in a separate function. It > > seems more readable now. > > The patch looks good to me. What about the following patch on top > to make things even more readable? > --- > kernel/kexec.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++--------------------------------- > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) > > --- a/kernel/kexec.c > +++ b/kernel/kexec.c > @@ -1236,14 +1236,18 @@ int kexec_load_disabled; > > static DEFINE_MUTEX(kexec_mutex); > > -static int __kexec_load(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry, > - unsigned long nr_segments, > +static int __kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments, > struct kexec_segment __user * segments, > unsigned long flags) > { > + struct kimage *image, **dest_image; > unsigned long i; > int result; > - struct kimage *image; > + > + dest_image = (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) ? &kexec_crash_image : &kexec_image; > + > + if (nr_segments == 0) > + return 0; It is fine, if nr_segments is 0. So we should deal with this case like original kexec code. > > if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) { > /* > @@ -1251,7 +1255,6 @@ static int __kexec_load(struct kimage ** > * crashes. Free any current crash dump kernel before > * we corrupt it. > */ > - > kimage_free(xchg(&kexec_crash_image, NULL)); > } > > @@ -1267,30 +1270,29 @@ static int __kexec_load(struct kimage ** > > result = machine_kexec_prepare(image); > if (result) > - goto out; > + goto fail; > > for (i = 0; i < nr_segments; i++) { > result = kimage_load_segment(image, &image->segment[i]); > if (result) > - goto out; > + goto fail; > } > - > kimage_terminate(image); > - *rimage = image; > -out: > + /* Install the new kernel, and uninstall the old */ > + kimage_free(xchg(dest_image, image)); > if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) > crash_unmap_reserved_pages(); > - > - /* Free image if there was an error */ > - if (result) > - kimage_free(image); > + return 0; > +fail: > + if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) > + crash_unmap_reserved_pages(); > + kimage_free(image); Kernel release image again, and will crash in here, since we do not assign the image to NULL when we release the image above. Thanks Minfei > return result; > } > > SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned long, entry, unsigned long, nr_segments, > struct kexec_segment __user *, segments, unsigned long, flags) > { > - struct kimage **dest_image, *image; > int result; > > /* We only trust the superuser with rebooting the system. */ > @@ -1315,9 +1317,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned lon > if (nr_segments > KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX) > return -EINVAL; > > - image = NULL; > - result = 0; > - > /* Because we write directly to the reserved memory > * region when loading crash kernels we need a mutex here to > * prevent multiple crash kernels from attempting to load > @@ -1329,24 +1328,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned lon > if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)) > return -EBUSY; > > - dest_image = &kexec_image; > - if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) > - dest_image = &kexec_crash_image; > - > /* Load new kernel */ > - if (nr_segments > 0) { > - result = __kexec_load(&image, entry, nr_segments, segments, > - flags); > - if (result) > - goto out; > - } > - > - /* Install the new kernel, and Uninstall the old */ > - image = xchg(dest_image, image); > - > -out: > + result = __kexec_load(entry, nr_segments, segments, flags); > mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex); > - kimage_free(image); > > return result; > } > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/