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2012-02-23fadump: Introduce cleanup routine to invalidate /proc/vmcore.Mahesh Salgaonkar
With the firmware-assisted dump support we don't require a reboot when we are in second kernel after crash. The second kernel after crash is a normal kernel boot and has knowledge about entire system RAM with the page tables initialized for entire system RAM. Hence once the dump is saved to disk, we can just release the reserved memory area for general use and continue with second kernel as production kernel. Hence when we release the reserved memory that contains dump data, the '/proc/vmcore' will not be valid anymore. Hence this patch introduces a cleanup routine that invalidates and removes the /proc/vmcore file. This routine will be invoked before we release the reserved dump memory area. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-10-31fs: add export.h to files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE macrosPaul Gortmaker
These files were getting <linux/module.h> via an implicit include path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers for no reason. Give them the lightweight header that just contains the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-05-26fs/proc/vmcore.c: add hook to read_from_oldmem() to check for non-ram pagesOlaf Hering
The balloon driver in a Xen guest frees guest pages and marks them as mmio. When the kernel crashes and the crash kernel attempts to read the oldmem via /proc/vmcore a read from ballooned pages will generate 100% load in dom0 because Xen asks qemu-dm for the page content. Since the reads come in as 8byte requests each ballooned page is tried 512 times. With this change a hook can be registered which checks wether the given pfn is really ram. The hook has to return a value > 0 for ram pages, a value < 0 on error (because the hypercall is not known) and 0 for non-ram pages. This will reduce the time to read /proc/vmcore. Without this change a 512M guest with 128M crashkernel region needs 200 seconds to read it, with this change it takes just 2 seconds. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-30ARM: 6485/5: proc/vmcore - allow archs to override vmcore_elf_check_arch()Mika Westerberg
Allow architectures to redefine this macro if needed. This is useful for example in architectures where 64-bit ELF vmcores are not supported. Specifying zero vmcore_elf64_check_arch() allows compiler to optimize away unnecessary parts of parse_crash_elf64_headers(). We also rename the macro to vmcore_elf64_check_arch() to reflect that it is used for 64-bit vmcores only. Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-09-22/proc/vmcore: fix seekingArnd Bergmann
Commit 73296bc611 ("procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/vmcore") broke seeking on /proc/vmcore. This changes it back to use default_llseek in order to restore the original behaviour. The problem with generic_file_llseek is that it only allows seeks up to inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes, which is zero on procfs and some other virtual file systems. We should merge generic_file_llseek and default_llseek some day and clean this up in a proper way, but for 2.6.35/36, reverting vmcore is the safer solution. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com> Tested-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-19Merge branch 'bkl/procfs' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing * 'bkl/procfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing: sunrpc: Include missing smp_lock.h procfs: Kill the bkl in ioctl procfs: Push down the bkl from ioctl procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/vmcore procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kmsg procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kcore procfs: Kill BKL in llseek on proc base
2010-04-09procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/vmcoreFrederic Weisbecker
/proc/vmcore has no llseek and then falls down to use default_llseek. This is racy against read_vmcore() that directly manipulates fpos but it doesn't hold the bkl there so using it in llseek doesn't protect anything. Let's use generic_file_llseek() instead. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2009-06-18proc: vmcore - use kzalloc in get_new_element()Cyrill Gorcunov
Instead of kmalloc+memset better use straight kzalloc Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08vmcore: remove saved_max_pfn checkMagnus Damm
Remove the saved_max_pfn check from the /proc/vmcore function read_from_oldmem(). No need to verify, we should be able to just trust that "elfcorehdr=" is correctly passed to the crash kernel on the kernel command line like we do with other parameters. The read_from_oldmem() function in fs/proc/vmcore.c is quite similar to read_from_oldmem() in drivers/char/mem.c, but only in the latter it makes sense to use saved_max_pfn. For oldmem it is used to determine when to stop reading. For vmcore we already have the elf header info pointing out the physical memory regions, no need to pass the end-of- old-memory twice. Removing the saved_max_pfn check from vmcore makes it possible for architectures to skip oldmem but still support crash dump through vmcore - without the need for the old saved_max_pfn cruft. Architectures that want to play safe can do the saved_max_pfn check in copy_oldmem_page(). Not sure why anyone would want to do that, but that's even safer than today - the saved_max_pfn check in vmcore removed by this patch only checks the first page. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-23proc: move /proc/vmcore creation to fs/proc/vmcore.cAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-20kdump: add is_vmcore_usable() and vmcore_unusable()Simon Horman
The usage of elfcorehdr_addr has changed recently such that being set to ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX is used by is_kdump_kernel() to indicate if the code is executing in a kernel executed as a crash kernel. However, arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c:reserve_elfcorehdr will rest elfcorehdr_addr to ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX on error, which means any subsequent calls to is_kdump_kernel() will return 0, even though they should return 1. Ok, at this point in time there are no subsequent calls, but I think its fair to say that there is ample scope for error or at the very least confusion. This patch add an extra state, ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR, which indicates that elfcorehdr_addr was passed on the command line, and thus execution is taking place in a crashdump kernel, but vmcore can't be used for some reason. This is tested for using is_vmcore_usable() and set using vmcore_unusable(). A subsequent patch makes use of this new code. To summarise, the states that elfcorehdr_addr can now be in are as follows: ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX: not a crashdump kernel ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR: crashdump kernel but vmcore is unusable any other value: crash dump kernel and vmcore is usable Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20kdump: make elfcorehdr_addr independent of CONFIG_PROC_VMCOREVivek Goyal
o elfcorehdr_addr is used by not only the code under CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE but also by the code which is not inside CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE. For example, is_kdump_kernel() is used by powerpc code to determine if kernel is booting after a panic then use previous kernel's TCE table. So even if CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE is not set in second kernel, one should be able to correctly determine that we are booting after a panic and setup calgary iommu accordingly. o So remove the assumption that elfcorehdr_addr is under CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE. o Move definition of elfcorehdr_addr to arch dependent crash files. (Unfortunately crash dump does not have an arch independent file otherwise that would have been the best place). o kexec.c is not the right place as one can Have CRASH_DUMP enabled in second kernel without KEXEC being enabled. o I don't see sh setup code parsing the command line for elfcorehdr_addr. I am wondering how does vmcore interface work on sh. Anyway, I am atleast defining elfcoredhr_addr so that compilation is not broken on sh. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-10proc: remove dummy vmcore_open()Alexey Dobriyan
Empty ->open is equivalent to always succeeding ->open. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-02-08aout: remove unnecessary inclusions of {asm, linux}/a.out.hDavid Howells
Remove now unnecessary inclusions of {asm,linux}/a.out.h. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02[PATCH] i386: Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumpsIan Campbell
The specific case I am encountering is kdump under Xen with a 64 bit hypervisor and 32 bit kernel/userspace. The dump created is 64 bit due to the hypervisor but the dump kernel is 32 bit for maximum compatibility. It's possibly less likely to be useful in a purely native scenario but I see no reason to disallow it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Horms <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-04-11[PATCH] kdump proc vmcore size oveflow fixVivek Goyal
A couple of /proc/vmcore data structures overflow with 32bit systems having memory more than 4G. This patch fixes those. Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ constArjan van de Ven
This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/ const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus cache clean) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11[PATCH] kdump: vmcore compilation warning fixVivek Goyal
o fs/proc/vmcore.c compilation gives warnings on ppc64. The reason being that u64 is defined as unsigned long hence u64* is not same as loff_t* and compiler cribs. o Changed the parameter type to u64* instead of loff_t* to resolve the conflict. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11fs/proc/vmcore.c: header included twiceNicolas Kaiser
Header included twice. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-10[PATCH] kdump: read previous kernel's memoryVivek Goyal
- Moving the crash_dump.c file to arch dependent part as kmap_atomic_pfn is specific to i386 and highmem may not exist in other archs. - Use ioremap for x86_64 to map the previous kernel memory. - In copy_oldmem_page(), we now directly copy to the user/kernel buffer and avoid the unneccesary copy to a kmalloc'd page. Signed-off-by: Rachita Kothiyal <rachita@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25[PATCH] kdump: Parse elf32 headers and export through /proc/vmcoreVivek Goyal
o Adds support for parsing core ELF32 headers. o I am expecting ELF32 support to go away down the line. This patch has been introduced for testing purposes as gdb can not parse ELF64 headers for i386. When a decent user space solution is available, ELF32 support can go away. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25[PATCH] kdump: Access dump file in elf format (/proc/vmcore)Vivek Goyal
From: "Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> o Support for /proc/vmcore interface. This interface exports elf core image either in ELF32 or ELF64 format, depending on the format in which elf headers have been stored by crashed kernel. o Added support for CONFIG_VMCORE config option. o Removed the dependency on /proc/kcore. From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> This patch has been refactored to more closely match the prevailing style in the affected files. And to clearly indicate the dependency between /proc/kcore and proc/vmcore.c From: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com> This patch contains the code that provides an ELF format interface to the previous kernel's memory post kexec reboot. Signed off by Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>