Crash memory ranges is an array of memory ranges of the crashing kernel
to be exported as a dump via /proc/vmcore file. The size of the array
is set based on INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS, which works alright in most cases
where memblock memory regions count is less than INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS
value. But this count can grow beyond INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS value since
commit 142b45a72e ("memblock: Add array resizing support").
On large memory systems with a few DLPAR operations, the memblock memory
regions count could be larger than INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS value. On such
systems, registering fadump results in crash or other system failures
like below:
task: c00007f39a290010 ti: c00000000b738000 task.ti: c00000000b738000
NIP: c000000000047df4 LR: c0000000000f9e58 CTR: c00000000010f180
REGS: c00000000b73b570 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: G L X (4.4.140+)
MSR: 8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 22004484 XER: 20000000
CFAR: c000000000008500 DAR: 000007a450000000 DSISR: 40000000 SOFTE: 0
...
NIP [c000000000047df4] smp_send_reschedule+0x24/0x80
LR [c0000000000f9e58] resched_curr+0x138/0x160
Call Trace:
resched_curr+0x138/0x160 (unreliable)
check_preempt_curr+0xc8/0xf0
ttwu_do_wakeup+0x38/0x150
try_to_wake_up+0x224/0x4d0
__wake_up_common+0x94/0x100
ep_poll_callback+0xac/0x1c0
__wake_up_common+0x94/0x100
__wake_up_sync_key+0x70/0xa0
sock_def_readable+0x58/0xa0
unix_stream_sendmsg+0x2dc/0x4c0
sock_sendmsg+0x68/0xa0
___sys_sendmsg+0x2cc/0x2e0
__sys_sendmsg+0x5c/0xc0
SyS_socketcall+0x36c/0x3f0
system_call+0x3c/0x100
as array index overflow is not checked for while setting up crash memory
ranges causing memory corruption. To resolve this issue, dynamically
allocate memory for crash memory ranges and resize it incrementally,
in units of pagesize, on hitting array size limit.
Fixes: 2df173d9e8 ("fadump: Initialize elfcore header and add PT_LOAD program headers.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.4+
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Just use PAGE_SIZE directly, fixup variable placement]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
There are quite a few machine check exceptions that can be caused by
kernel bugs. To make debugging easier, use the kernel crash path in
cases of synchronous machine checks that occur in kernel mode, if that
would not result in the machine going straight to panic or crash dump.
There is a downside here that die()ing the process in kernel mode can
still leave the system unstable. panic_on_oops will always force the
system to fail-stop, so systems where that behaviour is important will
still do the right thing.
As a test, when triggering an i-side 0111b error (ifetch from foreign
address) in kernel mode process context on POWER9, the kernel currently
dies quickly like this:
Severe Machine check interrupt [Not recovered]
NIP [ffff000000000000]: 0xffff000000000000
Initiator: CPU
Error type: Real address [Instruction fetch (foreign)]
[ 127.426651616,0] OPAL: Reboot requested due to Platform error.
Effective[ 127.426693712,3] OPAL: Reboot requested due to Platform error. address: ffff000000000000
opal: Reboot type 1 not supported
Kernel panic - not syncing: PowerNV Unrecovered Machine Check
CPU: 56 PID: 4425 Comm: syscall Tainted: G M 4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty #35
Call Trace:
[ 128.017988928,4] IPMI: BUG: Dropping ESEL on the floor due to
buggy/mising code in OPAL for this BMC
Rebooting in 10 seconds..
Trying to free IRQ 496 from IRQ context!
After this patch, the process is killed and the kernel continues with
this message, which gives enough information to identify the offending
branch (i.e., with CFAR):
Severe Machine check interrupt [Not recovered]
NIP [ffff000000000000]: 0xffff000000000000
Initiator: CPU
Error type: Real address [Instruction fetch (foreign)]
Effective address: ffff000000000000
Oops: Machine check, sig: 7 [#1]
SMP NR_CPUS=2048
NUMA
PowerNV
Modules linked in: iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 ...
CPU: 22 PID: 4436 Comm: syscall Tainted: G M 4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty #36
task: c000000932300000 task.stack: c000000932380000
NIP: ffff000000000000 LR: 00000000217706a4 CTR: ffff000000000000
REGS: c00000000fc8fd80 TRAP: 0200 Tainted: G M (4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty)
MSR: 90000000001c1003 <SF,HV,ME,RI,LE>
CR: 24000484 XER: 20000000
CFAR: c000000000004c80 DAR: 0000000021770a90 DSISR: 0a000000 SOFTE: 1
GPR00: 0000000000001ebe 00007fffce4818b0 0000000021797f00 0000000000000000
GPR04: 00007fff8007ac24 0000000044000484 0000000000004000 00007fff801405e8
GPR08: 900000000280f033 0000000024000484 0000000000000000 0000000000000030
GPR12: 9000000000001003 00007fff801bc370 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR28: 00007fff801b0000 0000000000000000 00000000217707a0 00007fffce481918
NIP [ffff000000000000] 0xffff000000000000
LR [00000000217706a4] 0x217706a4
Call Trace:
Instruction dump:
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To register fadump, boot memory area - the size of low memory chunk that
is required for a kernel to boot successfully when booted with restricted
memory, is assumed to have no holes. But this memory area is currently
not protected from hot-remove operations. So, fadump could fail to
re-register after a memory hot-remove operation, if memory is removed
from boot memory area. To avoid this, ensure that memory from boot
memory area is not hot-removed when fadump is registered.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
By default, 5% of system RAM is reserved for preserving boot memory.
Alternatively, a user can specify the amount of memory to reserve.
See Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt for details. In
addition to the memory reserved for preserving boot memory, some more
memory is reserved, to save HPTE region, CPU state data and ELF core
headers.
Memory Reservation during first kernel looks like below:
Low memory Top of memory
0 boot memory size |
| | |<--Reserved dump area -->|
V V | Permanent Reservation V
+-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+
| | |CPU|HPTE| DUMP |ELF |
+-----------+----------/ /----------+---+----+-----------+----+
| ^
| |
\ /
-------------------------------------------
Boot memory content gets transferred to
reserved area by firmware at the time of
crash
This implicitly means that the sum of the sizes of boot memory, CPU
state data, HPTE region, DUMP preserving area and ELF core headers
can't be greater than the total memory size. But currently, a user is
allowed to specify any value as boot memory size. So, the above rule
is violated when a boot memory size around 50% of the total available
memory is specified. As the kernel is not handling this currently, it
may lead to undefined behavior. Fix it by setting an upper limit for
boot memory size to 25% of the total available memory. Also, instead
of using memblock_end_of_DRAM(), which doesn't take the holes, if any,
in the memory layout into account, use memblock_phys_mem_size() to
calculate the percentage of total available memory.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Now that crashkernel parameter parsing and vmcoreinfo related code is
moved under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE instead of CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, remove
dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC for CONFIG_FA_DUMP. While here, get rid of
definitions of fadump_append_elf_note() & fadump_final_note() functions
to reuse similar functions compiled under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149035343956.6881.1536459326017709354.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Firmware Assisted Dump is a facility to dump kernel core with assistance
from firmware. As part of this process the kernel ELF ABI version is
stored in the core file.
Currently fadump.h defines this to 0 if it is not already defined. This
clashes with a define in elf.h which sets it based on the current task -
not based on the kernel's ELF ABI version.
Use the compiler-provided #define _CALL_ELF which tells us the ELF ABI
version of the kernel to set e_flags, this matches what binutils does.
Remove the definition in fadump.h, which becomes unused.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The four cpumasks cpu_{possible,online,present,active}_bits are exposed
readonly via the corresponding const variables cpu_xyz_mask. But they are
also accessible for arbitrary writing via the exposed functions
set_cpu_xyz. There's quite a bit of code throughout the kernel which
iterates over or otherwise accesses these bitmaps, and having the access
go via the cpu_xyz_mask variables is nowadays [1] simply a useless
indirection.
It may be that any problem in CS can be solved by an extra level of
indirection, but that doesn't mean every extra indirection solves a
problem. In this case, it even necessitates some minor ugliness (see
4/6).
Patch 1/6 is new in v2, and fixes a build failure on ppc by renaming a
struct member, to avoid problems when the identifier cpu_online_mask
becomes a macro later in the series. The next four patches eliminate the
cpu_xyz_mask variables by simply exposing the actual bitmaps, after
renaming them to discourage direct access - that still happens through
cpu_xyz_mask, which are now simply macros with the same type and value as
they used to have.
After that, there's no longer any reason to have the setter functions be
out-of-line: The boolean parameter is almost always a literal true or
false, so by making them static inlines they will usually compile to one
or two instructions.
For a defconfig build on x86_64, bloat-o-meter says we save ~3000 bytes.
We also save a little stack (stackdelta says 127 functions have a 16 byte
smaller stack frame, while two grow by that amount). Mostly because, when
iterating over the mask, gcc typically loads the value of cpu_xyz_mask
into a callee-saved register and from there into %rdi before each
find_next_bit call - now it can just load the appropriate immediate
address into %rdi before each call.
[1] See Rusty's kind explanation
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2047078/focus=2047722 for
some historic context.
This patch (of 6):
As preparation for eliminating the indirect access to the various global
cpu_*_bits bitmaps via the pointer variables cpu_*_mask, rename the
cpu_online_mask member of struct fadump_crash_info_header to simply
online_mask, thus allowing cpu_online_mask to become a macro.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch introduces an sysfs interface '/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem' to
invalidate the last fadump registration, invalidate '/proc/vmcore', release
the reserved memory for general use and re-register for future kernel dump.
Once the dump is copied to the disk, unlike phyp dump, the userspace tool
can release all the memory reserved for dump with one single operation of
echo 1 to '/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem'.
Release the reserved memory region excluding the size of the memory required
for future kernel dump registration. And therefore, unlike kdump, Fadump
doesn't need a 2nd reboot to get back the system to the production
configuration.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When registered for firmware assisted dump on powerpc, firmware preserves
the registers for the active CPUs during a system crash. This patch reads
the cpu register data stored in Firmware-assisted dump format (except for
crashing cpu) and converts it into elf notes and updates the PT_NOTE program
header accordingly. The exact register state for crashing cpu is saved to
fadump crash info structure in scratch area during crash_fadump() and read
during second kernel boot.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Build the crash memory range list by traversing through system memory during
the first kernel before we register for firmware-assisted dump. After the
successful dump registration, initialize the elfcore header and populate
PT_LOAD program headers with crash memory ranges. The elfcore header is
saved in the scratch area within the reserved memory. The scratch area starts
at the end of the memory reserved for saving RMR region contents. The
scratch area contains fadump crash info structure that contains magic number
for fadump validation and physical address where the eflcore header can be
found. This structure will also be used to pass some important crash info
data to the second kernel which will help second kernel to populate ELF core
header with correct data before it gets exported through /proc/vmcore. Since
the firmware preserves the entire partition memory at the time of crash the
contents of the scratch area will be preserved till second kernel boot.
Since the memory dump exported through /proc/vmcore is in ELF format similar
to kdump, it will help us to reuse the kdump infrastructure for dump capture
and filtering. Unlike phyp dump, userspace tool does not need to refer any
sysfs interface while reading /proc/vmcore.
NOTE: The current design implementation does not address a possibility of
introducing additional fields (in future) to this structure without affecting
compatibility. It's on TODO list to come up with better approach to
address this.
Reserved dump area start => +-------------------------------------+
| CPU state dump data |
+-------------------------------------+
| HPTE region data |
+-------------------------------------+
| RMR region data |
Scratch area start => +-------------------------------------+
| fadump crash info structure { |
| magic nummber |
+------|---- elfcorehdr_addr |
| | } |
+----> +-------------------------------------+
| ELF core header |
Reserved dump area end => +-------------------------------------+
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On 2012-02-20 11:02:51 Mon, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:44:30PM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote:
>
> If I have read the code correctly, we are going to get this printk on
> non-pSeries machines or on older pSeries machines, even if the user
> has not put the fadump=on option on the kernel command line. The
> printk will be annoying since there is no actual error condition. It
> seems to me that the condition for the printk should include
> fw_dump.fadump_enabled. In other words you should probably add
>
> if (!fw_dump.fadump_enabled)
> return 0;
>
> at the beginning of the function.
Hi Paul,
Thanks for pointing it out. Please find the updated patch below.
The existing patches above this (4/10 through 10/10) cleanly applies
on this update.
Thanks,
-Mahesh.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reserve the memory during early boot to preserve CPU state data, HPTE region
and RMA (real mode area) region data in case of kernel crash. At the time of
crash, powerpc firmware will store CPU state data, HPTE region data and move
RMA region data to the reserved memory area.
If the firmware-assisted dump fails to reserve the memory, then fallback
to existing kexec-based kdump.
Most of the code implementation to reserve memory has been
adapted from phyp assisted dump implementation written by Linas Vepstas
and Manish Ahuja
This patch also introduces a config option CONFIG_FA_DUMP for firmware
assisted dump feature on Powerpc (ppc64) architecture.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Hari Bathini