We currently have $lx_per_cpu() which works fine for stuff that kernel
code would access via per_cpu(). But this doesn't work for stuff that
kernel code accesses via per_cpu_ptr():
(gdb) p $lx_per_cpu(node_data[1].node_zones[2]->per_cpu_pageset)
Cannot access memory at address 0xffff11105fbd6c28
This is because we take the address of the pointer and use that as the
offset, instead of using the stored value.
Add a GDB version that mirrors the kernel API, which uses the pointer
value.
To be consistent with per_cpu_ptr(), we need to return the pointer value
instead of dereferencing it for the user. Therefore, move the existing
dereference out of the per_cpu() Python helper and do that only in the
$lx_per_cpu() implementation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250220-lx-per-cpu-ptr-v2-1-945dee8d8d38@google.com
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Florian Rommel <mail@florommel.de>
Cc: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The hw_protection_reboot and hw_protection_shutdown functions mix
mechanism with policy: They let the driver requesting an emergency action
for hardware protection also decide how to deal with it.
This is inadequate in the general case as a driver reporting e.g. an
imminent power failure can't know whether a shutdown or a reboot would be
more appropriate for a given hardware platform.
With the addition of the hw_protection parameter, it's now possible to
configure at runtime the default emergency action and drivers are expected
to use hw_protection_trigger to have this parameter dictate policy.
As no current users of either hw_protection_shutdown or
hw_protection_shutdown helpers remain, remove them, as not to tempt driver
authors to call them.
Existing users now either defer to hw_protection_trigger or call
__hw_protection_trigger with a suitable argument directly when they have
inside knowledge on whether a reboot or shutdown would be more
appropriate.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250217-hw_protection-reboot-v3-12-e1c09b090c0c@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@denx.de>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Matteo Croce <teknoraver@meta.com>
Cc: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Rui Zhang <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When the core detects permanent regulator hardware failure or imminent
power failure of a critical supply, it will call hw_protection_shutdown in
an attempt to do a limited orderly shutdown followed by powering off the
system.
This doesn't work out well for many unattended embedded systems that don't
have support for shutdown and that power on automatically when power is
supplied:
- A brief power cycle gets detected by the driver
- The kernel powers down the system and SoC goes into shutdown mode
- Power is restored
- The system remains oblivious to the restored power
- System needs to be manually power cycled for a duration long enough
to drain the capacitors
Allow users to fix this by calling the newly introduced
hw_protection_trigger() instead: This way the hw_protection commandline or
sysfs parameter is used to dictate the policy of dealing with the
regulator fault.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250217-hw_protection-reboot-v3-8-e1c09b090c0c@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>
Cc: Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@denx.de>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Matteo Croce <teknoraver@meta.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Rui Zhang <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "reboot: support runtime configuration of emergency
hw_protection action", v3.
We currently leave the decision of whether to shutdown or reboot to
protect hardware in an emergency situation to the individual drivers.
This works out in some cases, where the driver detecting the critical
failure has inside knowledge: It binds to the system management controller
for example or is guided by hardware description that defines what to do.
This is inadequate in the general case though as a driver reporting e.g.
an imminent power failure can't know whether a shutdown or a reboot would
be more appropriate for a given hardware platform.
To address this, this series adds a hw_protection kernel parameter and
sysfs toggle that can be used to change the action from the shutdown
default to reboot. A new hw_protection_trigger API then makes use of this
default action.
My particular use case is unattended embedded systems that don't have
support for shutdown and that power on automatically when power is
supplied:
- A brief power cycle gets detected by the driver
- The kernel powers down the system and SoC goes into shutdown mode
- Power is restored
- The system remains oblivious to the restored power
- System needs to be manually power cycled for a duration long enough
to drain the capacitors
With this series, such systems can configure the kernel with
hw_protection=reboot to have the boot firmware worry about critical
conditions.
This patch (of 12):
Currently __hw_protection_shutdown() either reboots or shuts down the
system according to its shutdown argument.
To make the logic easier to follow, both inside __hw_protection_shutdown
and at caller sites, lets replace the bool parameter with an enum.
This will be extra useful, when in a later commit, a third action is added
to the enumeration.
No functional change.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250217-hw_protection-reboot-v3-0-e1c09b090c0c@pengutronix.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250217-hw_protection-reboot-v3-1-e1c09b090c0c@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@denx.de>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Cc: Matteo Croce <teknoraver@meta.com>
Cc: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Rui Zhang <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "get_maintainer: report subsystem status separately", v2.
The subsystem status (S: field) can inform a patch submitter if the
subsystem is well maintained or e.g. maintainers are missing. In
get_maintainer, it is currently reported with --role(stats) by adjusting
the maintainer role for any status different from Maintained. This has
two downsides:
- if a subsystem has only reviewers or mailing lists and no maintainers,
the status is not reported. For example Orphan subsystems typically
have no maintainers so there's nobody to report as orphan minder.
- the Supported status means that someone is paid for maintaining, but
it is reported as "supporter" for all the maintainers, which can be
incorrect (only some of them may be paid). People (including myself)
have been also confused about what "supporter" means.
The second point has been brought up in 2022 and the discussion in the end
resulted in adjusting documentation only [1]. I however agree with Ted's
points that it's misleading to take the subsystem status and apply it to
all maintainers [2].
The attempt to modify get_maintainer output was retracted after Joe
objected that the status becomes not reported at all [3]. This series
addresses that concern by reporting the status (unless it's the most
common Maintained one) on separate lines that follow the reported emails,
using a new --substatus parameter. Care is taken to reduce the noise to
minimum by not reporting the most common Maintained status, by default
require no opt-in that would need the users to discover the new parameter,
and at the same time not to break existing git --cc-cmd usage.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221006162413.858527-1-bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Yzen4X1Na0MKXHs9@mit.edu/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/30776fe75061951777da8fa6618ae89bea7a8ce4.camel@perches.com/
This patch (of 2):
The subsystem status is currently reported with --role(stats) by adjusting
the maintainer role for any status different from Maintained. This has
two downsides:
- if a subsystem has only reviewers or mailing lists and no maintainers,
the status is not reported (i.e. typically, Orphan subsystems have no
maintainers)
- the Supported status means that someone is paid for maintaining, but
it is reported as "supporter" for all the maintainers, which can be
incorrect. People have been also confused about what "supporter"
means.
This patch introduces a new --substatus option and functionality aimed to
report the subsystem status separately, without adjusting the reported
maintainer role. After the e-mails are output, the status of subsystems
will follow, for example:
...
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list:LIBRARY CODE)
LIBRARY CODE status: Supported
In order to allow replacing the role rewriting seamlessly, the new
option works as follows:
- it is automatically enabled when --email and --role are enabled
(the defaults include --email and --rolestats which implies --role)
- usages with --norolestats e.g. for git's --cc-cmd will thus need no
adjustments
- the most common Maintained status is not reported at all, to reduce
unnecessary noise
- THE REST catch-all section (contains lkml) status is not reported
- the existing --subsystem and --status options are unaffected so their
users will need no adjustments
[vbabka@suse.cz: require that script output goes to a terminal]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/66c2bf7a-9119-4850-b6b8-ac8f426966e1@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250203-b4-get_maintainer-v2-0-83ba008b491f@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250203-b4-get_maintainer-v2-1-83ba008b491f@suse.cz
Fixes: c1565b6f7b53 ("get_maintainer: add --substatus for reporting subsystem status")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7aodxv46lj6rthjo4i5zhhx2lybrhb4uknpej2dyz3e7im5w3w@w23bz6fx3jnn/
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
Cc: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 0ab97169aa ("crash_core: add generic function to do reservation")
added a generic function to reserve crashkernel memory. So let's use the
same function on powerpc and remove the architecture-specific code that
essentially does the same thing.
The generic crashkernel reservation also provides a way to split the
crashkernel reservation into high and low memory reservations, which can
be enabled for powerpc in the future.
Along with moving to the generic crashkernel reservation, the code related
to finding the base address for the crashkernel has been separated into
its own function name get_crash_base() for better readability and
maintainability.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250131113830.925179-8-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Baoquan he <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The next patch in the series with title "powerpc/crash: use generic
crashkernel reservation" enables powerpc to use generic crashkernel
reservation instead of custom implementation. This leads to exporting of
`Crash Kernel` memory to iomem_resource (/proc/iomem) via
insert_crashkernel_resources():kernel/crash_reserve.c or at another place
in the same file if HAVE_ARCH_ADD_CRASH_RES_TO_IOMEM_EARLY is set.
The add_system_ram_resources():arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c adds `System RAM` to
iomem_resource using request_resource(). This creates a conflict with
`Crash Kernel`, which is added by the generic crashkernel reservation
code. As a result, the kernel ultimately fails to add `System RAM` to
iomem_resource. Consequently, it does not appear in /proc/iomem.
There are multiple approches tried to avoid this:
1. Don't add Crash Kernel to iomem_resource:
- This has two issues.
First, it requires adding an architecture-specific hook in the
generic code. There are already two code paths to choose when to
add `Crash Kernel` to iomem_resource. This adds one more code path
to skip it.
Second, what if `Crash Kernel` is required in /proc/iomem in the
future? Many architectures do export it.
2. Don't add `System RAM` to iomem_resource by reverting commit
c40dd2f766 ("powerpc: Add System RAM to /proc/iomem"):
- It's not ideal to export `System RAM` via /proc/iomem, but since
it already done ealier and userspace tools like kdump and
kdump-utils rely on `System RAM` from /proc/iomem, removing it
will break userspace.
3. Add Crash Kernel along with System RAM to /proc/iomem:
This patch takes the third approach by updating add_system_ram_resources()
to use insert_resource() instead of the request_resource() API to add the
`System RAM` resource to iomem_resource. insert_resource() allows
inserting resources even if they overlap with existing ones. Since `Crash
Kernel` and `System RAM` resources are added to iomem_resource early in
the boot, any other conflict is not expected.
With the changes introduced here and in the next patch, "powerpc/crash:
use generic crashkernel reservation," /proc/iomem now exports `System RAM`
and `Crash Kernel` as shown below:
$ cat /proc/iomem
00000000-3ffffffff : System RAM
10000000-4fffffff : Crash kernel
The kdump script is capable of handling `System RAM` and `Crash Kernel` in
the above format. The same format is used in other architectures.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250131113830.925179-7-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Baoquan he <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On PowerPC, the memory reserved for the crashkernel can contain components
like RTAS, TCE, OPAL, etc., which should be avoided when loading kexec
segments into crashkernel memory. Due to these special components,
PowerPC has its own set of APIs to locate holes in the crashkernel memory
for loading kexec segments for kdump. However, for loading kexec segments
in the kexec case, PowerPC already uses generic APIs to locate holes.
The previous patch in this series, titled "crash: Let arch decide usable
memory range in reserved area," introduced arch-specific hook to handle
such special regions in the crashkernel area. So, switch PowerPC to use
the generic APIs to locate memory holes for kdump and remove the redundant
PowerPC-specific APIs.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250131113830.925179-5-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Baoquan he <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Although the crashkernel area is reserved, on architectures like PowerPC,
it is possible for the crashkernel reserved area to contain components
like RTAS, TCE, OPAL, etc. To avoid placing kexec segments over these
components, PowerPC has its own set of APIs to locate holes in the
crashkernel reserved area.
Add an arch hook in the generic locate mem hole APIs so that architectures
can handle such special regions in the crashkernel area while locating
memory holes for kexec segments using generic APIs. With this, a lot of
redundant arch-specific code can be removed, as it performs the exact same
job as the generic APIs.
To keep the generic and arch-specific changes separate, the changes
related to moving PowerPC to use the generic APIs and the removal of
PowerPC-specific APIs for memory hole allocation are done in a subsequent
patch titled "powerpc/crash: Use generic APIs to locate memory hole for
kdump.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250131113830.925179-4-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel reservation", v3.
Commit 0ab97169aa ("crash_core: add generic function to do reservation")
added a generic function to reserve crashkernel memory. So let's use the
same function on powerpc and remove the architecture-specific code that
essentially does the same thing.
The generic crashkernel reservation also provides a way to split the
crashkernel reservation into high and low memory reservations, which can
be enabled for powerpc in the future.
Additionally move powerpc to use generic APIs to locate memory hole for
kexec segments while loading kdump kernel.
This patch (of 7):
kexec_elf_load() loads an ELF executable and sets the address of the
lowest PT_LOAD section to the address held by the lowest_load_addr
function argument.
To determine the lowest PT_LOAD address, a local variable lowest_addr
(type unsigned long) is initialized to UINT_MAX. After loading each
PT_LOAD, its address is compared to lowest_addr. If a loaded PT_LOAD
address is lower, lowest_addr is updated. However, setting lowest_addr to
UINT_MAX won't work when the kernel image is loaded above 4G, as the
returned lowest PT_LOAD address would be invalid. This is resolved by
initializing lowest_addr to ULONG_MAX instead.
This issue was discovered while implementing crashkernel high/low
reservation on the PowerPC architecture.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250131113830.925179-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250131113830.925179-2-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: a0458284f0 ("powerpc: Add support code for kexec_file_load()")
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In the operation of plist_requeue(), "node" is deleted from the list
before queueing it back to the list again, which involves looping to find
the tail of same-prio entries.
If "node" is the head of same-prio entries which means its prio_list is on
the priority list, then "node_next" can be retrieve immediately by the
next entry of prio_list, instead of looping nodes on node_list.
The shortcut implementation can benefit plist_requeue() running the below
test, and the test result is shown in the following table.
One can observe from the test result that when the number of nodes of
same-prio entries is smaller, then the probability of hitting the shortcut
can be bigger, thus the benefit can be more significant.
While it tends to behave almost the same for long same-prio entries, since
the probability of taking the shortcut is much smaller.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Test size | 200 | 400 | 600 | 800 | 1000 |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| new_plist_requeue | 271521| 1007913| 2148033| 4346792| 12200940|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| old_plist_requeue | 301395| 1105544| 2488301| 4632980| 12217275|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
The test is done on x86_64 architecture with v6.9 kernel and
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz.
Test script( executed in kernel module mode ):
int init_module(void)
{
unsigned int test_data[test_size];
/* Split the list into 10 different priority
* , when test_size is larger, the number of
* nodes within each priority is larger.
*/
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(test_data); i++) {
test_data[i] = i % 10;
}
ktime_t start, end, time_elapsed = 0;
plist_head_init(&test_head_local);
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(test_node_local); i++) {
plist_node_init(test_node_local + i, 0);
test_node_local[i].prio = test_data[i];
}
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(test_node_local); i++) {
if (plist_node_empty(test_node_local + i)) {
plist_add(test_node_local + i, &test_head_local);
}
}
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(test_node_local); i += 1) {
start = ktime_get();
plist_requeue(test_node_local + i, &test_head_local);
end = ktime_get();
time_elapsed += (end - start);
}
pr_info("plist_requeue() elapsed time : %lld, size %d\n", time_elapsed, test_size);
return 0;
}
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment and code layout]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250119062408.77638-1-richard120310@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: I Hsin Cheng <richard120310@gmail.com>
Cc: Ching-Chun (Jim) Huang <jserv@ccns.ncku.edu.tw>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
