From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat•com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel•org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 4/4] kexec_file: Load kernel at top of system RAM if required
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:10:25 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180726151025.GN6480@MiWiFi-R3L-srv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180726140152.GM28386@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On 07/26/18 at 04:01pm, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 26-07-18 21:37:05, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 07/26/18 at 03:14pm, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Thu 26-07-18 15:12:42, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > On Thu 26-07-18 21:09:04, Baoquan He wrote:
> > > > > On 07/26/18 at 02:59pm, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed 25-07-18 14:48:13, Baoquan He wrote:
> > > > > > > On 07/23/18 at 04:34pm, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Thu 19-07-18 23:17:53, Baoquan He wrote:
> > > > > > > > > Kexec has been a formal feature in our distro, and customers owning
> > > > > > > > > those kind of very large machine can make use of this feature to speed
> > > > > > > > > up the reboot process. On uefi machine, the kexec_file loading will
> > > > > > > > > search place to put kernel under 4G from top to down. As we know, the
> > > > > > > > > 1st 4G space is DMA32 ZONE, dma, pci mmcfg, bios etc all try to consume
> > > > > > > > > it. It may have possibility to not be able to find a usable space for
> > > > > > > > > kernel/initrd. From the top down of the whole memory space, we don't
> > > > > > > > > have this worry.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I do not have the full context here but let me note that you should be
> > > > > > > > careful when doing top-down reservation because you can easily get into
> > > > > > > > hotplugable memory and break the hotremove usecase. We even warn when
> > > > > > > > this is done. See memblock_find_in_range_node
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Kexec read kernel/initrd file into buffer, just search usable positions
> > > > > > > for them to do the later copying. You can see below struct kexec_segment,
> > > > > > > for the old kexec_load, kernel/initrd are read into user space buffer,
> > > > > > > the @buf stores the user space buffer address, @mem stores the position
> > > > > > > where kernel/initrd will be put. In kernel, it calls
> > > > > > > kimage_load_normal_segment() to copy user space buffer to intermediate
> > > > > > > pages which are allocated with flag GFP_KERNEL. These intermediate pages
> > > > > > > are recorded as entries, later when user execute "kexec -e" to trigger
> > > > > > > kexec jumping, it will do the final copying from the intermediate pages
> > > > > > > to the real destination pages which @mem pointed. Because we can't touch
> > > > > > > the existed data in 1st kernel when do kexec kernel loading. With my
> > > > > > > understanding, GFP_KERNEL will make those intermediate pages be
> > > > > > > allocated inside immovable area, it won't impact hotplugging. But the
> > > > > > > @mem we searched in the whole system RAM might be lost along with
> > > > > > > hotplug. Hence we need do kexec kernel again when hotplug event is
> > > > > > > detected.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I am not sure I am following. If @mem is placed at movable node then the
> > > > > > memory hotremove simply won't work, because we are seeing reserved pages
> > > > > > and do not know what to do about them. They are not migrateable.
> > > > > > Allocating intermediate pages from other nodes doesn't really help.
> > > > >
> > > > > OK, I forgot the 2nd kernel which kexec jump into. It won't impact hotremove
> > > > > in 1st kernel, it does impact the kernel which kexec jump into if kernel
> > > > > is at top of system RAM and the top RAM is in movable node.
> > > >
> > > > It will affect the 1st kernel (which does the memblock allocation
> > > > top-down) as well. For reasons mentioned above.
> > >
> > > And btw. in the ideal world, we would restrict the memblock allocation
> > > top-down from the non-movable nodes. But I do not think we have that
> > > information ready at the time when the reservation is done.
> >
> > Oh, you could mix kexec loading up with kdump kernel loading. For kdump
> > kernel, we need reserve memory region during bootup with memblock
> > allocator. For kexec loading, we just operate after system up, and do
> > not need to reserve any memmory region. About memory used to load them,
> > it's quite different way.
>
> I didn't know about that. I thought both use the same underlying
> reservation mechanism. My bad and sorry for the noise.
Not at all. It's truly confusing. I often need take time to recall those
details.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-26 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-18 2:49 [PATCH v7 0/4] resource: Use list_head to link sibling resource Baoquan He
2018-07-18 2:49 ` [PATCH v7 1/4] resource: Move reparent_resources() to kernel/resource.c and make it public Baoquan He
2018-07-18 16:36 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-07-18 16:37 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-07-19 15:18 ` Baoquan He
2018-07-18 2:49 ` [PATCH v7 2/4] resource: Use list_head to link sibling resource Baoquan He
2018-07-18 2:49 ` [PATCH v7 3/4] resource: add walk_system_ram_res_rev() Baoquan He
2018-07-18 2:49 ` [PATCH v7 4/4] kexec_file: Load kernel at top of system RAM if required Baoquan He
2018-07-18 22:33 ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-19 15:17 ` Baoquan He
2018-07-19 19:44 ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-25 2:21 ` Baoquan He
2018-07-23 14:34 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-25 6:48 ` Baoquan He
2018-07-26 12:59 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-26 13:09 ` Baoquan He
2018-07-26 13:12 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-26 13:14 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-26 13:37 ` Baoquan He
2018-07-26 14:01 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-26 15:10 ` Baoquan He [this message]
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