linux-toradex.git/kernel/kexec_core.c, branch v5.0-rc3

mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic

2018-12-28T20:11:47+00:00

totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages are made static inline function.

Main motivation was that managed_page_count_lock handling was complicating
things.  It was discussed in length here,
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/995739/#1181785 So it seemes
better to remove the lock and convert variables to atomic, with preventing
poteintial store-to-read tearing as a bonus.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542090790-21750-4-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Arun KS 
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko 
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: reference totalram_pages and managed_pages once per function

2018-12-28T20:11:47+00:00

Patch series "mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and managed
pages to atomic", v5.

This series converts totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and
zone->managed_pages to atomic variables.

totalram_pages, zone->managed_pages and totalhigh_pages updates are
protected by managed_page_count_lock, but readers never care about it.
Convert these variables to atomic to avoid readers potentially seeing a
store tear.

Main motivation was that managed_page_count_lock handling was complicating
things.  It was discussed in length here,
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/995739/#1181785 It seemes better
to remove the lock and convert variables to atomic.  With the change,
preventing poteintial store-to-read tearing comes as a bonus.

This patch (of 4):

This is in preparation to a later patch which converts totalram_pages and
zone->managed_pages to atomic variables.  Please note that re-reading the
value might lead to a different value and as such it could lead to
unexpected behavior.  There are no known bugs as a result of the current
code but it is better to prevent from them in principle.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542090790-21750-2-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Arun KS 
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kexec: Allocate decrypted control pages for kdump if SME is enabled

2018-10-06T10:01:51+00:00

When SME is enabled in the first kernel, it needs to allocate decrypted
pages for kdump because when the kdump kernel boots, these pages need to
be accessed decrypted in the initial boot stage, before SME is enabled.

 [ bp: clean up text. ]

Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky 
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com
Cc: bhelgaas@google.com
Cc: baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com
Cc: tiwai@suse.de
Cc: brijesh.singh@amd.com
Cc: dyoung@redhat.com
Cc: bhe@redhat.com
Cc: jroedel@suse.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180930031033.22110-3-lijiang@redhat.com

kexec: yield to scheduler when loading kimage segments

2018-06-14T22:55:24+00:00

Without yielding while loading kimage segments, a large initrd will
block all other work on the CPU performing the load until it is
completed.  For example loading an initrd of 200MB on a low power single
core system will lock up the system for a few seconds.

To increase system responsiveness to other tasks at that time, call
cond_resched() in both the crash kernel and normal kernel segment
loading loops.

I did run into a practical problem.  Hardware watchdogs on embedded
systems can have short timers on the order of seconds.  If the system is
locked up for a few seconds with only a single core available, the
watchdog may not be pet in a timely fashion.  If this happens, the
hardware watchdog will fire and reset the system.

This really only becomes a problem when you are working with a single
core, a decently sized initrd, and have a constrained hardware watchdog.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1528738546-3328-1-git-send-email-jmf@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jarrett Farnitano 
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86/mm, kexec: Allow kexec to be used with SME

2017-07-18T09:38:04+00:00

Provide support so that kexec can be used to boot a kernel when SME is
enabled.

Support is needed to allocate pages for kexec without encryption.  This
is needed in order to be able to reboot in the kernel in the same manner
as originally booted.

Additionally, when shutting down all of the CPUs we need to be sure to
flush the caches and then halt. This is needed when booting from a state
where SME was not active into a state where SME is active (or vice-versa).
Without these steps, it is possible for cache lines to exist for the same
physical location but tagged both with and without the encryption bit. This
can cause random memory corruption when caches are flushed depending on
which cacheline is written last.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: 
Cc: Alexander Potapenko 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brijesh Singh 
Cc: Dave Young 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Larry Woodman 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Matt Fleming 
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Radim Krčmář 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Toshimitsu Kani 
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b95ff075db3e7cd545313f2fb609a49619a09625.1500319216.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kdump: protect vmcoreinfo data under the crash memory

2017-07-12T23:26:00+00:00

Currently vmcoreinfo data is updated at boot time subsys_initcall(), it
has the risk of being modified by some wrong code during system is
running.

As a result, vmcore dumped may contain the wrong vmcoreinfo.  Later on,
when using "crash", "makedumpfile", etc utility to parse this vmcore, we
probably will get "Segmentation fault" or other unexpected errors.

E.g.  1) wrong code overwrites vmcoreinfo_data; 2) further crashes the
system; 3) trigger kdump, then we obviously will fail to recognize the
crash context correctly due to the corrupted vmcoreinfo.

Now except for vmcoreinfo, all the crash data is well
protected(including the cpu note which is fully updated in the crash
path, thus its correctness is guaranteed).  Given that vmcoreinfo data
is a large chunk prepared for kdump, we better protect it as well.

To solve this, we relocate and copy vmcoreinfo_data to the crash memory
when kdump is loading via kexec syscalls.  Because the whole crash
memory will be protected by existing arch_kexec_protect_crashkres()
mechanism, we naturally protect vmcoreinfo_data from write(even read)
access under kernel direct mapping after kdump is loaded.

Since kdump is usually loaded at the very early stage after boot, we can
trust the correctness of the vmcoreinfo data copied.

On the other hand, we still need to operate the vmcoreinfo safe copy
when crash happens to generate vmcoreinfo_note again, we rely on vmap()
to map out a new kernel virtual address and update to use this new one
instead in the following crash_save_vmcoreinfo().

BTW, we do not touch vmcoreinfo_note, because it will be fully updated
using the protected vmcoreinfo_data after crash which is surely correct
just like the cpu crash note.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493281021-20737-3-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang 
Tested-by: Michael Holzheu 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Dave Young 
Cc: Eric Biederman 
Cc: Hari Bathini 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

objtool, x86: Add several functions and files to the objtool whitelist

2017-06-30T08:19:19+00:00

In preparation for an objtool rewrite which will have broader checks,
whitelist functions and files which cause problems because they do
unusual things with the stack.

These whitelists serve as a TODO list for which functions and files
don't yet have undwarf unwinder coverage.  Eventually most of the
whitelists can be removed in favor of manual CFI hint annotations or
objtool improvements.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7f934a5d707a574bda33ea282e9478e627fb1829.1498659915.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ia64: reuse append_elf_note() and final_note() functions

2017-05-09T00:15:11+00:00

Get rid of multiple definitions of append_elf_note() & final_note()
functions.  Reuse these functions compiled under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE Also,
define Elf_Word and use it instead of generic u32 or the more specific
Elf64_Word.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149035342324.6881.11667840929850361402.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini 
Acked-by: Dave Young 
Acked-by: Tony Luck 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: Eric Biederman 
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE

2017-05-09T00:15:11+00:00

Patch series "kexec/fadump: remove dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC and
reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump", v4.

Traditionally, kdump is used to save vmcore in case of a crash.  Some
architectures like powerpc can save vmcore using architecture specific
support instead of kexec/kdump mechanism.  Such architecture specific
support also needs to reserve memory, to be used by dump capture kernel.
crashkernel parameter can be a reused, for memory reservation, by such
architecture specific infrastructure.

This patchset removes dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC for crashkernel
parameter and vmcoreinfo related code as it can be reused without kexec
support.  Also, crashkernel parameter is reused instead of
fadump_reserve_mem to reserve memory for fadump.

The first patch moves crashkernel parameter parsing and vmcoreinfo
related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE instead of CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE.  The
second patch reuses the definitions of append_elf_note() & final_note()
functions under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE in IA64 arch code.  The third patch
removes dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC for firmware-assisted dump (fadump)
in powerpc.  The next patch reuses crashkernel parameter for reserving
memory for fadump, instead of the fadump_reserve_mem parameter.  This
has the advantage of using all syntaxes crashkernel parameter supports,
for fadump as well.  The last patch updates fadump kernel documentation
about use of crashkernel parameter.

This patch (of 5):

Traditionally, kdump is used to save vmcore in case of a crash.  Some
architectures like powerpc can save vmcore using architecture specific
support instead of kexec/kdump mechanism.  Such architecture specific
support also needs to reserve memory, to be used by dump capture kernel.
crashkernel parameter can be a reused, for memory reservation, by such
architecture specific infrastructure.

But currently, code related to vmcoreinfo and parsing of crashkernel
parameter is built under CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE.  This patch introduces
CONFIG_CRASH_CORE and moves the above mentioned code under this config,
allowing code reuse without dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC.  There is no
functional change with this patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149035338104.6881.4550894432615189948.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini 
Acked-by: Dave Young 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Eric Biederman 
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk

2017-02-23T01:33:34+00:00

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add Petr Mladek, Sergey Senozhatsky as printk maintainers, and Steven
   Rostedt as the printk reviewer. This idea came up after the
   discussion about printk issues at Kernel Summit. It was formulated
   and discussed at lkml[1].

 - Extend a lock-less NMI per-cpu buffers idea to handle recursive
   printk() calls by Sergey Senozhatsky[2]. It is the first step in
   sanitizing printk as discussed at Kernel Summit.

   The change allows to see messages that would normally get ignored or
   would cause a deadlock.

   Also it allows to enable lockdep in printk(). This already paid off.
   The testing in linux-next helped to discover two old problems that
   were hidden before[3][4].

 - Remove unused parameter by Sergey Senozhatsky. Clean up after a past
   change.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481798878-31898-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161227141611.940-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
[3] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170215044332.30449-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
[4] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217015932.11898-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
  printk: drop call_console_drivers() unused param
  printk: convert the rest to printk-safe
  printk: remove zap_locks() function
  printk: use printk_safe buffers in printk
  printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi contexts
  printk: always use deferred printk when flush printk_safe lines
  printk: introduce per-cpu safe_print seq buffer
  printk: rename nmi.c and exported api
  printk: use vprintk_func in vprintk()
  MAINTAINERS: Add printk maintainers