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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Feng Zhou <zhoufeng.zf@bytedance.com>,
	Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>,
	Chen Zhou <dingguo.cz@antgroup.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 03/10] x86: kdump: use macro CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX in functions reserve_crashkernel()
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:48:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YbtRs3Tq1UpCOpg8@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35810a61-604e-9b90-2a7f-cfca6ae042ac@huawei.com>

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 08:08:30PM +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
> If the memory of 'crash_base' is successfully allocated at (1), because the last
> parameter CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX is the upper bound, so we can sure that
> "crash_base < CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX". So that, reserve_crashkernel_low() will not be
> invoked at (3). That's why I said (1ULL << 32) is inaccurate and enlarge the CRASH_ADDR_LOW
> upper limit.

No, this is actually wrong - that check *must* be 4G. See:

  eb6db83d1059 ("x86/setup: Do not reserve crashkernel high memory if low reservation failed")

It is even documented:

        crashkernel=size[KMG],low
                        [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
                        is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
                        above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
                        that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
                        requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
                        low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
                        devices won't run out.

so you need to do a low allocation for DMA *when* the reserved memory is
above 4G. *NOT* above 512M. But that works due to the obscure situation,
as Baoquan stated, that reserve_crashkernel_low() returns 0 on 32-bit.

So all this is telling us is that that function needs serious cleanup.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Feng Zhou <zhoufeng.zf@bytedance.com>,
	Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>,
	Chen Zhou <dingguo.cz@antgroup.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 03/10] x86: kdump: use macro CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX in functions reserve_crashkernel()
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:48:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YbtRs3Tq1UpCOpg8@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35810a61-604e-9b90-2a7f-cfca6ae042ac@huawei.com>

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 08:08:30PM +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
> If the memory of 'crash_base' is successfully allocated at (1), because the last
> parameter CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX is the upper bound, so we can sure that
> "crash_base < CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX". So that, reserve_crashkernel_low() will not be
> invoked at (3). That's why I said (1ULL << 32) is inaccurate and enlarge the CRASH_ADDR_LOW
> upper limit.

No, this is actually wrong - that check *must* be 4G. See:

  eb6db83d1059 ("x86/setup: Do not reserve crashkernel high memory if low reservation failed")

It is even documented:

        crashkernel=size[KMG],low
                        [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
                        is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
                        above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
                        that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
                        requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
                        low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
                        devices won't run out.

so you need to do a low allocation for DMA *when* the reserved memory is
above 4G. *NOT* above 512M. But that works due to the obscure situation,
as Baoquan stated, that reserve_crashkernel_low() returns 0 on 32-bit.

So all this is telling us is that that function needs serious cleanup.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

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WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Feng Zhou <zhoufeng.zf@bytedance.com>,
	Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>,
	Chen Zhou <dingguo.cz@antgroup.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 03/10] x86: kdump: use macro CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX in functions reserve_crashkernel()
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:48:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YbtRs3Tq1UpCOpg8@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35810a61-604e-9b90-2a7f-cfca6ae042ac@huawei.com>

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 08:08:30PM +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
> If the memory of 'crash_base' is successfully allocated at (1), because the last
> parameter CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX is the upper bound, so we can sure that
> "crash_base < CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX". So that, reserve_crashkernel_low() will not be
> invoked at (3). That's why I said (1ULL << 32) is inaccurate and enlarge the CRASH_ADDR_LOW
> upper limit.

No, this is actually wrong - that check *must* be 4G. See:

  eb6db83d1059 ("x86/setup: Do not reserve crashkernel high memory if low reservation failed")

It is even documented:

        crashkernel=size[KMG],low
                        [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
                        is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
                        above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
                        that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
                        requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
                        low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
                        devices won't run out.

so you need to do a low allocation for DMA *when* the reserved memory is
above 4G. *NOT* above 512M. But that works due to the obscure situation,
as Baoquan stated, that reserve_crashkernel_low() returns 0 on 32-bit.

So all this is telling us is that that function needs serious cleanup.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

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Thread overview: 198+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-10  6:55 [PATCH v17 00/10] support reserving crashkernel above 4G on arm64 kdump Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55 ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55 ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55 ` [PATCH v17 01/10] x86: kdump: replace the hard-coded alignment with macro CRASH_ALIGN Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-13 13:17   ` Baoquan He
2021-12-13 13:17     ` Baoquan He
2021-12-13 13:17     ` Baoquan He
2021-12-14  8:41     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-14  8:41       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-14  8:41       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-13 14:26   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:26     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:26     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 19:54   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 19:54     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 19:54     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-14  9:27     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-14  9:27       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-14  9:27       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-10  6:55 ` [PATCH v17 02/10] x86: kdump: make the lower bound of crash kernel reservation consistent Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-13 13:37   ` Baoquan He
2021-12-13 13:37     ` Baoquan He
2021-12-13 13:37     ` Baoquan He
2021-12-14  8:48     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-14  8:48       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-14  8:48       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-13 14:27   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:27     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:27     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-14 19:07   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-14 19:07     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-14 19:07     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-14 19:24     ` Catalin Marinas
2021-12-14 19:24       ` Catalin Marinas
2021-12-14 19:24       ` Catalin Marinas
2021-12-15  2:10       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-15  2:10         ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-15  2:10         ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-15  3:42       ` Baoquan He
2021-12-15  3:42         ` Baoquan He
2021-12-15  3:42         ` Baoquan He
2021-12-15 11:01         ` Catalin Marinas
2021-12-15 11:01           ` Catalin Marinas
2021-12-15 11:01           ` Catalin Marinas
2021-12-15 11:16           ` Baoquan He
2021-12-15 11:16             ` Baoquan He
2021-12-15 11:16             ` Baoquan He
2021-12-15 11:45             ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-15 11:45               ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-15 11:45               ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-10  6:55 ` [PATCH v17 03/10] x86: kdump: use macro CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX in functions reserve_crashkernel() Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-13 14:28   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:28     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:28     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-14  8:54   ` Baoquan He
2021-12-14  8:54     ` Baoquan He
2021-12-14  8:54     ` Baoquan He
2021-12-14  9:38     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-14  9:38       ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-14  9:38       ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-14  9:56       ` Baoquan He
2021-12-14  9:56         ` Baoquan He
2021-12-14  9:56         ` Baoquan He
2021-12-14 14:24         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-14 14:24           ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-14 14:24           ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-15  6:01           ` Baoquan He
2021-12-15  6:01             ` Baoquan He
2021-12-15  6:01             ` Baoquan He
2021-12-15 13:28   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-15 13:28     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-15 13:28     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16  1:10     ` Baoquan He
2021-12-16  1:10       ` Baoquan He
2021-12-16  1:10       ` Baoquan He
2021-12-16  2:46       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-16  2:46         ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-16  2:46         ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-16 11:07         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 11:07           ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 11:07           ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 12:08           ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-16 12:08             ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-16 12:08             ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-16 12:23             ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-16 12:23               ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-16 12:23               ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-16 14:48             ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2021-12-16 14:48               ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 14:48               ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-17  2:51               ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-17  2:51                 ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-17  2:51                 ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-21 22:23                 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-21 22:23                   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-21 22:23                   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 10:55       ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 10:55         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 10:55         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 14:11         ` Baoquan He
2021-12-16 14:11           ` Baoquan He
2021-12-16 14:11           ` Baoquan He
2021-12-16 14:58           ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 14:58             ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 14:58             ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-10  6:55 ` [PATCH v17 04/10] x86: kdump: move xen_pv_domain() check and insert_resource() to setup_arch() Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-13 14:29   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:29     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:29     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-14 11:40   ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-14 11:40     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-14 11:40     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-15  8:56     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-15  8:56       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-15  8:56       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-15  9:22       ` Baoquan He
2021-12-15  9:22         ` Baoquan He
2021-12-15  9:22         ` Baoquan He
2021-12-10  6:55 ` [PATCH v17 05/10] x86: kdump: move reserve_crashkernel[_low]() into crash_core.c Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-13 14:30   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:30     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:30     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-14 10:45   ` Baoquan He
2021-12-14 10:45     ` Baoquan He
2021-12-14 10:45     ` Baoquan He
2021-12-14 12:38     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-14 12:38       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-14 12:38       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-16 11:17   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 11:17     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 11:17     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 13:15     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-16 13:15       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-16 13:15       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-16 14:51       ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 14:51         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-16 14:51         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-10  6:55 ` [PATCH v17 06/10] arm64: kdump: introduce some macros for crash kernel reservation Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-13 14:30   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:30     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:30     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-10  6:55 ` [PATCH v17 07/10] arm64: kdump: reimplement crashkernel=X Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-13 14:31   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:31     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:31     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-10  6:55 ` [PATCH v17 08/10] of: fdt: Aggregate the processing of "linux,usable-memory-range" Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` [PATCH v17 08/10] of: fdt: Aggregate the processing of "linux, usable-memory-range" Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-10 16:39   ` [PATCH v17 08/10] of: fdt: Aggregate the processing of "linux,usable-memory-range" Rob Herring
2021-12-10 16:39     ` Rob Herring
2021-12-10 16:39     ` Rob Herring
2021-12-13 14:34   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:34     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:34     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-10  6:55 ` [PATCH v17 09/10] of: fdt: Add memory for devices by DT property "linux,usable-memory-range" Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` [PATCH v17 09/10] of: fdt: Add memory for devices by DT property "linux, usable-memory-range" Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-10 16:43   ` [PATCH v17 09/10] of: fdt: Add memory for devices by DT property "linux,usable-memory-range" Rob Herring
2021-12-10 16:43     ` Rob Herring
2021-12-10 16:43     ` Rob Herring
2021-12-13 14:33   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:33     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:33     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-10  6:55 ` [PATCH v17 10/10] kdump: update Documentation about crashkernel Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-10  6:55   ` Zhen Lei
2021-12-13 14:34   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:34     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:34     ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-10  7:15 ` [PATCH v17 00/10] support reserving crashkernel above 4G on arm64 kdump Kefeng Wang
2021-12-10  7:15   ` Kefeng Wang
2021-12-10  7:15   ` Kefeng Wang
2021-12-13 18:50   ` Will Deacon
2021-12-13 18:50     ` Will Deacon
2021-12-13 18:50     ` Will Deacon
2021-12-13 14:37 ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:37   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 14:37   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 18:56   ` Catalin Marinas
2021-12-13 18:56     ` Catalin Marinas
2021-12-13 18:56     ` Catalin Marinas
2021-12-13 18:57   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 18:57     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-13 18:57     ` Borislav Petkov

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