From: takahiro.akashi@linaro.org (AKASHI Takahiro) To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: [PATCH v26 0/7] arm64: add kdump support Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 14:41:12 +0900 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20161005054111.GA19531@linaro.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <57F37A73.3030105@arm.com> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 10:46:27AM +0100, James Morse wrote: > Hi Manish, > > On 03/10/16 13:41, Manish Jaggi wrote: > > On 10/03/2016 04:34 PM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 01:24:34PM +0530, Manish Jaggi wrote: > >>> With the v26 kdump and v3 kexec-tools and top of tree crash.git, below are the tests done > >>> Attached is a patch in crash.git (symbols.c) to make crash utility work on my setup. > >>> Can you please have a look and provide your comments. > >>> > >>> To generate a panic, i have a kernel module which on init calls panic. > > ... modules ... I haven't tested that. I bet it causes some problems! > We probably need to include module_alloc_base as an elf note in the vmcore file... No, I don't think so :) I created some test module as Manish implied and tested kdump: (My kernel here even enables KASLR.) ===8<=== $ crash vmlinux vmcore ... please wait... (gathering module symbol data) ... crash> mod -S MODULE NAME SIZE OBJECT FILE ffff04d78f4b8000 testmod 16384 /opt/buildroot/15.11_64/root/kexec/testmod.ko crash> bt PID: 1102 TASK: ffffb4da8e910000 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "insmod" #0 [ffffb4da8e9afa30] __crash_kexec at ffff0e0045020a54 #1 [ffffb4da8e9afb90] panic at ffff0e004505523c #2 [ffffb4da8e9afc50] testmod_init at ffff04d78f4b6014 [testmod] #3 [ffffb4da8e9afb40] do_one_initcall at ffff0e0044f7333c --- <Exception in user> --- PC: 0000000a LR: 00000000 SP: ffff04d78f4b6000 PSTATE: 7669726420656c75 X12: ffffb4da8e9ac000 X11: ffff04d78f4b6018 X10: ffffb4da8e9afc50 X9: 20676e6973756143 X8: 00000000 X7: ffff0e0045e5ce00 X6: ffff0e0045e5c000 X5: 600001c5 X4: ffff0e0045020a58 X3: ffffb4da8e9afa30 X2: ffff0e004502098c X1: ffffb4da8e9afa30 X0: 00000124 crash> disas testmod_init Dump of assembler code for function testmod_init: 0xffff04d78f4b6000 <+0>: stp x29, x30, [sp,#-16]! 0xffff04d78f4b6004 <+4>: mov x29, sp 0xffff04d78f4b6008 <+8>: ldr x0, 0xffff04d78f4b6018 0xffff04d78f4b600c <+12>: bl 0xffff04d78f4b6090 0xffff04d78f4b6010 <+16>: ldr x0, 0xffff04d78f4b6020 0xffff04d78f4b6014 <+20>: bl 0xffff04d78f4b6080 End of assembler dump. ===>8=== (I see some issue in disassembled code, though.) > > > >>> First kernel is booted with mem=2G crashkernel=1G command line option. > >>> While the system has 64G memory. > > >> Are you saying that "mem=..." doesn't have any effect? > > What I am saying it that If the first kernel is booted using mem= option and crashkernel= option > > the memory for second kernel has to be withing the crashkernel size. > > As per /proc/iomem System RAM the information is correct, but the /proc/meminfo is showing total memory > > much more than the first kernel had in first place. > > So your second crashkernel has 63G of memory? Unless you provide the same 'mem=' > to the kdump kernel, this is the expected behaviour. The > DT:/reserved-memory/crash_dump describes the memory not to use. > > On your first boot with 'mem=2G' memblock_mem_limit_remove_map() called from > arm64_memblock_init() removed the top 62G of memory. Neither the first kernel > nor kexec-tools know about the top 62G. > When you run kexec-tools, it describes what it sees in /proc/iomem in the > DT:/reserved-memory/crash_dump, which is just the remaining 1G of memory. > > When we crash and reboot, the crash kernel discovers all 64G of memory from the > EFI memory map. > kexec-tools described the 1G of memory that the first kernel was using in the > DT:/reserved-memory/crash_dump node, so early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() > reserves the 1G of memory the first kernel used. This leaves us with 63G of memory. Thank you very much for elaborating this on behalf of myself! > This may change with the next version of kdump if it switches back to using > DT:/chosen/linux,usable-memory-range. Indeed. We need to talk to Rob. Thanks, -Takahiro AKASHI > If you need v26 to avoid the top 62G of memory, you need to provide the same > 'mem=' to the first and second kernel. > > > >>> 1.2 Live crash dump fails with error > > ... do we expect this to work? I don't think it has anything to do with this > series... > > > Thanks, > > James >
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From: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> To: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, Manish Jaggi <mjaggi@caviumnetworks.com>, geoff@infradead.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com, "Kapoor, Prasun" <Prasun.Kapoor@caviumnetworks.com>, bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com, dyoung@redhat.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v26 0/7] arm64: add kdump support Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 14:41:12 +0900 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20161005054111.GA19531@linaro.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <57F37A73.3030105@arm.com> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 10:46:27AM +0100, James Morse wrote: > Hi Manish, > > On 03/10/16 13:41, Manish Jaggi wrote: > > On 10/03/2016 04:34 PM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 01:24:34PM +0530, Manish Jaggi wrote: > >>> With the v26 kdump and v3 kexec-tools and top of tree crash.git, below are the tests done > >>> Attached is a patch in crash.git (symbols.c) to make crash utility work on my setup. > >>> Can you please have a look and provide your comments. > >>> > >>> To generate a panic, i have a kernel module which on init calls panic. > > ... modules ... I haven't tested that. I bet it causes some problems! > We probably need to include module_alloc_base as an elf note in the vmcore file... No, I don't think so :) I created some test module as Manish implied and tested kdump: (My kernel here even enables KASLR.) ===8<=== $ crash vmlinux vmcore ... please wait... (gathering module symbol data) ... crash> mod -S MODULE NAME SIZE OBJECT FILE ffff04d78f4b8000 testmod 16384 /opt/buildroot/15.11_64/root/kexec/testmod.ko crash> bt PID: 1102 TASK: ffffb4da8e910000 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "insmod" #0 [ffffb4da8e9afa30] __crash_kexec at ffff0e0045020a54 #1 [ffffb4da8e9afb90] panic at ffff0e004505523c #2 [ffffb4da8e9afc50] testmod_init at ffff04d78f4b6014 [testmod] #3 [ffffb4da8e9afb40] do_one_initcall at ffff0e0044f7333c --- <Exception in user> --- PC: 0000000a LR: 00000000 SP: ffff04d78f4b6000 PSTATE: 7669726420656c75 X12: ffffb4da8e9ac000 X11: ffff04d78f4b6018 X10: ffffb4da8e9afc50 X9: 20676e6973756143 X8: 00000000 X7: ffff0e0045e5ce00 X6: ffff0e0045e5c000 X5: 600001c5 X4: ffff0e0045020a58 X3: ffffb4da8e9afa30 X2: ffff0e004502098c X1: ffffb4da8e9afa30 X0: 00000124 crash> disas testmod_init Dump of assembler code for function testmod_init: 0xffff04d78f4b6000 <+0>: stp x29, x30, [sp,#-16]! 0xffff04d78f4b6004 <+4>: mov x29, sp 0xffff04d78f4b6008 <+8>: ldr x0, 0xffff04d78f4b6018 0xffff04d78f4b600c <+12>: bl 0xffff04d78f4b6090 0xffff04d78f4b6010 <+16>: ldr x0, 0xffff04d78f4b6020 0xffff04d78f4b6014 <+20>: bl 0xffff04d78f4b6080 End of assembler dump. ===>8=== (I see some issue in disassembled code, though.) > > > >>> First kernel is booted with mem=2G crashkernel=1G command line option. > >>> While the system has 64G memory. > > >> Are you saying that "mem=..." doesn't have any effect? > > What I am saying it that If the first kernel is booted using mem= option and crashkernel= option > > the memory for second kernel has to be withing the crashkernel size. > > As per /proc/iomem System RAM the information is correct, but the /proc/meminfo is showing total memory > > much more than the first kernel had in first place. > > So your second crashkernel has 63G of memory? Unless you provide the same 'mem=' > to the kdump kernel, this is the expected behaviour. The > DT:/reserved-memory/crash_dump describes the memory not to use. > > On your first boot with 'mem=2G' memblock_mem_limit_remove_map() called from > arm64_memblock_init() removed the top 62G of memory. Neither the first kernel > nor kexec-tools know about the top 62G. > When you run kexec-tools, it describes what it sees in /proc/iomem in the > DT:/reserved-memory/crash_dump, which is just the remaining 1G of memory. > > When we crash and reboot, the crash kernel discovers all 64G of memory from the > EFI memory map. > kexec-tools described the 1G of memory that the first kernel was using in the > DT:/reserved-memory/crash_dump node, so early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() > reserves the 1G of memory the first kernel used. This leaves us with 63G of memory. Thank you very much for elaborating this on behalf of myself! > This may change with the next version of kdump if it switches back to using > DT:/chosen/linux,usable-memory-range. Indeed. We need to talk to Rob. Thanks, -Takahiro AKASHI > If you need v26 to avoid the top 62G of memory, you need to provide the same > 'mem=' to the first and second kernel. > > > >>> 1.2 Live crash dump fails with error > > ... do we expect this to work? I don't think it has anything to do with this > series... > > > Thanks, > > James > _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-05 5:41 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2016-09-07 4:29 [PATCH v26 0/7] arm64: add kdump support AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` [PATCH v26 1/7] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-22 10:23 ` Matthias Bruger 2016-09-22 10:23 ` Matthias Bruger 2016-09-23 8:37 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-23 8:37 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` [PATCH v26 2/7] arm64: kdump: implement machine_crash_shutdown() AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-14 18:09 ` James Morse 2016-09-14 18:09 ` James Morse 2016-09-15 8:13 ` Marc Zyngier 2016-09-15 8:13 ` Marc Zyngier 2016-09-16 3:21 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-16 3:21 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-16 14:49 ` James Morse 2016-09-16 14:49 ` James Morse 2016-09-20 7:36 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-20 7:36 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` [PATCH v26 3/7] arm64: kdump: add kdump support AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-16 14:50 ` James Morse 2016-09-16 14:50 ` James Morse 2016-09-20 7:46 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-20 7:46 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-22 15:50 ` Matthias Brugger 2016-09-22 15:50 ` Matthias Brugger 2016-09-07 4:29 ` [PATCH v26 4/7] arm64: kdump: add VMCOREINFO's for user-space coredump tools AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-16 16:04 ` James Morse 2016-09-16 16:04 ` James Morse 2016-09-07 4:29 ` [PATCH v26 5/7] arm64: kdump: enable kdump in the arm64 defconfig AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` [PATCH v26 6/7] arm64: kdump: update a kernel doc AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-16 16:08 ` James Morse 2016-09-16 16:08 ` James Morse 2016-09-20 8:27 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-20 8:27 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-26 17:21 ` Matthias Brugger 2016-09-26 17:21 ` Matthias Brugger [not found] ` <20160907042908.6232-1-takahiro.akashi-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> 2016-09-07 4:32 ` [PATCH v26 7/7] Documentation: dt: chosen properties for arm64 kdump AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:32 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:32 ` AKASHI Takahiro [not found] ` <20160907043203.6309-1-takahiro.akashi-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> 2016-09-16 13:03 ` Rob Herring 2016-09-16 13:03 ` Rob Herring 2016-09-16 13:03 ` Rob Herring 2016-09-07 4:37 ` [PATCH v26 0/7] arm64: add kdump support AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:37 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-16 16:04 ` James Morse 2016-09-16 16:04 ` James Morse 2016-09-16 20:17 ` Ard Biesheuvel 2016-09-16 20:17 ` Ard Biesheuvel 2016-09-19 16:05 ` James Morse 2016-09-19 16:05 ` James Morse 2016-09-19 16:10 ` Ard Biesheuvel 2016-09-19 16:10 ` Ard Biesheuvel 2016-09-21 7:42 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-21 7:42 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-21 7:33 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-21 7:33 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-03 7:54 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-03 7:54 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-03 11:04 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-03 11:04 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-03 12:41 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-03 12:41 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-04 2:56 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-04 2:56 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-04 9:46 ` James Morse 2016-10-04 9:46 ` James Morse 2016-10-04 10:05 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-04 10:05 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-04 10:53 ` James Morse 2016-10-04 10:53 ` James Morse 2016-10-04 13:23 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-04 13:23 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-05 5:48 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-05 5:48 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-05 5:41 ` AKASHI Takahiro [this message] 2016-10-05 5:41 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-04 10:18 ` Mark Rutland 2016-10-04 10:18 ` Mark Rutland 2016-10-17 15:41 ` Ruslan Bilovol 2016-10-17 15:41 ` Ruslan Bilovol 2016-10-18 6:26 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-18 6:26 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-11-01 12:19 ` Ruslan Bilovol 2016-11-01 12:19 ` Ruslan Bilovol
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