kernel_optimize_test/include/linux/crash_dump.h
Olaf Hering 997c136f51 fs/proc/vmcore.c: add hook to read_from_oldmem() to check for non-ram pages
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>
2011-05-26 17:12:37 -07:00

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#ifndef LINUX_CRASH_DUMP_H
#define LINUX_CRASH_DUMP_H
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
#include <linux/kexec.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
#define ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX (-1ULL)
#define ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR (-2ULL)
extern unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr;
extern ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long, char *, size_t,
unsigned long, int);
/* Architecture code defines this if there are other possible ELF
* machine types, e.g. on bi-arch capable hardware. */
#ifndef vmcore_elf_check_arch_cross
#define vmcore_elf_check_arch_cross(x) 0
#endif
/*
* Architecture code can redefine this if there are any special checks
* needed for 64-bit ELF vmcores. In case of 32-bit only architecture,
* this can be set to zero.
*/
#ifndef vmcore_elf64_check_arch
#define vmcore_elf64_check_arch(x) (elf_check_arch(x) || vmcore_elf_check_arch_cross(x))
#endif
/*
* is_kdump_kernel() checks whether this kernel is booting after a panic of
* previous kernel or not. This is determined by checking if previous kernel
* has passed the elf core header address on command line.
*
* This is not just a test if CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is enabled or not. It will
* return 1 if CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y and if kernel is booting after a panic of
* previous kernel.
*/
static inline int is_kdump_kernel(void)
{
return (elfcorehdr_addr != ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX) ? 1 : 0;
}
/* is_vmcore_usable() checks if the kernel is booting after a panic and
* the vmcore region is usable.
*
* This makes use of the fact that due to alignment -2ULL is not
* a valid pointer, much in the vain of IS_ERR(), except
* dealing directly with an unsigned long long rather than a pointer.
*/
static inline int is_vmcore_usable(void)
{
return is_kdump_kernel() && elfcorehdr_addr != ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR ? 1 : 0;
}
/* vmcore_unusable() marks the vmcore as unusable,
* without disturbing the logic of is_kdump_kernel()
*/
static inline void vmcore_unusable(void)
{
if (is_kdump_kernel())
elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR;
}
#define HAVE_OLDMEM_PFN_IS_RAM 1
extern int register_oldmem_pfn_is_ram(int (*fn)(unsigned long pfn));
extern void unregister_oldmem_pfn_is_ram(void);
#else /* !CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */
static inline int is_kdump_kernel(void) { return 0; }
#endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */
extern unsigned long saved_max_pfn;
#endif /* LINUX_CRASHDUMP_H */