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* [PATCH 0/2] powerpc/fadump: handle CMA activation failure appropriately
@ 2021-12-20 19:34 ` Hari Bathini
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Hari Bathini @ 2021-12-20 19:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, linux-mm, mpe, linuxppc-dev
  Cc: david, osalvador, mike.kravetz, mahesh, sourabhjain, Hari Bathini

While commit a4e92ce8e4c8 ("powerpc/fadump: Reservationless firmware
assisted dump"), introduced Linux kernel's Contiguous Memory Allocator
(CMA) based reservation for fadump, it came with the assumption that
the memory remains reserved even if CMA activation fails. This
assumption ensures no kernel page resides in the reserved memory
region, which can't be mapped into the /proc/vmcore.

But commit 072355c1cf2d ("mm/cma: expose all pages to the buddy if
activation of an area fails") started returning all pages to buddy
allocator if CMA activation fails. This led to warning messages like
below while running crash-utility on vmcore of a kernel having above
two commits:

  crash: seek error: kernel virtual address: <from reserved region>

as reserved memory region ended up having kernel pages crash-utility
was looking for. Fix this by introducing an option in CMA, to opt out
from exposing pages to buddy allocator, on CMA activation failure.

Hari Bathini (2):
  mm/cma: provide option to opt out from exposing pages on activation
    failure
  powerpc/fadump: opt out from freeing pages on cma activation failure

 arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c |  6 ++++++
 include/linux/cma.h          |  2 ++
 mm/cma.c                     | 15 +++++++++++++--
 mm/cma.h                     |  1 +
 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

-- 
2.33.1



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