From patchwork Mon Nov 19 10:16:11 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: David Hildenbrand X-Patchwork-Id: 10688409 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D22313AD for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:17:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D22A29C24 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:17:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 7CC7929C27; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:17:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147B029C24 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:17:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727874AbeKSUkE (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:40:04 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35568 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726287AbeKSUkE (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:40:04 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx07.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A486C05E773; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from t460s.redhat.com (ovpn-117-77.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.117.77]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F9710640FE; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:16:45 +0000 (UTC) From: David Hildenbrand To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, kexec-ml , pv-drivers@vmware.com, David Hildenbrand , Andrew Morton , Dave Young , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Baoquan He , Omar Sandoval , Arnd Bergmann , Matthew Wilcox , Michal Hocko , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Lianbo Jiang , Borislav Petkov , Kazuhito Hagio Subject: [PATCH v1 3/8] kexec: export PG_offline to VMCOREINFO Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:16:11 +0100 Message-Id: <20181119101616.8901-4-david@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20181119101616.8901-1-david@redhat.com> References: <20181119101616.8901-1-david@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.22 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.31]); Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Right now, pages inflated as part of a balloon driver will be dumped by dump tools like makedumpfile. While XEN is able to check in the crash kernel whether a certain pfn is actuall backed by memory in the hypervisor (see xen_oldmem_pfn_is_ram) and optimize this case, dumps of other balloon inflated memory will essentially result in zero pages getting allocated by the hypervisor and the dump getting filled with this data. The allocation and reading of zero pages can directly be avoided if a dumping tool could know which pages only contain stale information not to be dumped. We now have PG_offline which can be (and already is by virtio-balloon) used for marking pages as logically offline. Follow up patches will make use of this flag also in other balloon implementations. Let's export PG_offline via PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE, so makedumpfile can directly skip pages that are logically offline and the content therefore stale. Please note that this is also helpful for a problem we were seeing under Hyper-V: Dumping logically offline memory (pages kept fake offline while onlining a section via online_page_callback) would under some condicions result in a kernel panic when dumping them. Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Dave Young Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Omar Sandoval Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Lianbo Jiang Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Kazuhito Hagio Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Acked-by: Dave Young --- kernel/crash_core.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c index 933cb3e45b98..093c9f917ed0 100644 --- a/kernel/crash_core.c +++ b/kernel/crash_core.c @@ -464,6 +464,8 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void) VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE); #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR); +#define PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE (~PG_offline) + VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE); #endif arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo();