From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
To: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
kexec mailing list <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
will@kernel.org,
Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [v1 0/5] allow to reserve memory for normal kexec kernel
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 12:59:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d60f302-5161-638a-76cd-d7d79e5631fe@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+CK2bBrwBHhD-PFO_gVnDYoFi0Su6t456WNdtBWpOe4qM+oww@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Pavel,
On 09/07/2019 11:55, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 6:36 AM Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 2:46 AM Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> This seems like an issue with time spent while doing sha256
>> verification while in purgatory.
>>
>> Can you please try the following two patches which enable D-cache in
>> purgatory before SHA verification and disable it before switching to
>> kernel:
>>
>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2017-May/018839.html
>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2017-May/018840.html
>
> Hi Bhupesh,
>
> The verification was taking 2.31s. This is why it is disabled via
> kexec's '-i' flag. Therefore 0.35s is only the relocation part where
> time is spent, and with my patches the time is completely gone.
> Actually, I am glad you showed these patches to me because I might
> pull them and enable verification for our needs.
>
>>
>> Note that these were not accepted upstream but are included in several
>> distros in some form or the other :)
>
> Enabling MMU and D-Cache for relocation would essentially require the
> same changes in kernel. Could you please share exactly why these were
> not accepted upstream into kexec-tools?
Because '--no-checks' is a much simpler alternative.
More of the discussion:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/5599813d-f83c-d154-287a-c131c48292ca@arm.com/
While you can make purgatory a fully-fledged operating system, it doesn't really need to
do anything on arm64. Errata-workarounds alone are a reason not do start down this path.
Thanks,
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-09 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-08 21:15 [v1 0/5] allow to reserve memory for normal kexec kernel Pavel Tatashin
2019-07-08 21:15 ` [v1 1/5] kexec: quiet down kexec reboot Pavel Tatashin
2019-07-08 21:15 ` [v1 2/5] kexec: add resource for normal kexec region Pavel Tatashin
2019-07-08 21:15 ` [v1 3/5] kexec: export common crashkernel/kexeckernel parser Pavel Tatashin
2019-07-08 21:15 ` [v1 4/5] kexec: use reserved memory for normal kexec reboot Pavel Tatashin
2019-07-08 21:15 ` [v1 5/5] arm64, kexec: reserve kexeckernel region Pavel Tatashin
2019-07-08 23:53 ` [v1 0/5] allow to reserve memory for normal kexec kernel Eric W. Biederman
2019-07-09 0:09 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-07-09 10:18 ` James Morse
2019-07-09 10:36 ` Bhupesh Sharma
2019-07-09 10:55 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-07-09 11:59 ` James Morse [this message]
2019-07-09 13:07 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-07-10 15:19 ` James Morse
2019-07-10 15:56 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-07-11 8:12 ` Vladimir Murzin
2019-07-11 12:26 ` Pavel Tatashin
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