arm64: kdump: provide /proc/vmcore file

Arch-specific functions are added to allow for implementing a crash dump
file interface, /proc/vmcore, which can be viewed as a ELF file.

A user space tool, like kexec-tools, is responsible for allocating
a separate region for the core's ELF header within crash kdump kernel
memory and filling it in when executing kexec_load().

Then, its location will be advertised to crash dump kernel via a new
device-tree property, "linux,elfcorehdr", and crash dump kernel preserves
the region for later use with reserve_elfcorehdr() at boot time.

On crash dump kernel, /proc/vmcore will access the primary kernel's memory
with copy_oldmem_page(), which feeds the data page-by-page by ioremap'ing
it since it does not reside in linear mapping on crash dump kernel.

Meanwhile, elfcorehdr_read() is simple as the region is always mapped.

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index 89ba3cd0fe44..5960bef0170d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/kexec.h>
+#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
 
 #include <asm/boot.h>
 #include <asm/fixmap.h>
@@ -165,6 +166,56 @@ static void __init kexec_reserve_crashkres_pages(void)
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
+static int __init early_init_dt_scan_elfcorehdr(unsigned long node,
+		const char *uname, int depth, void *data)
+{
+	const __be32 *reg;
+	int len;
+
+	if (depth != 1 || strcmp(uname, "chosen") != 0)
+		return 0;
+
+	reg = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "linux,elfcorehdr", &len);
+	if (!reg || (len < (dt_root_addr_cells + dt_root_size_cells)))
+		return 1;
+
+	elfcorehdr_addr = dt_mem_next_cell(dt_root_addr_cells, &reg);
+	elfcorehdr_size = dt_mem_next_cell(dt_root_size_cells, &reg);
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
+/*
+ * reserve_elfcorehdr() - reserves memory for elf core header
+ *
+ * This function reserves the memory occupied by an elf core header
+ * described in the device tree. This region contains all the
+ * information about primary kernel's core image and is used by a dump
+ * capture kernel to access the system memory on primary kernel.
+ */
+static void __init reserve_elfcorehdr(void)
+{
+	of_scan_flat_dt(early_init_dt_scan_elfcorehdr, NULL);
+
+	if (!elfcorehdr_size)
+		return;
+
+	if (memblock_is_region_reserved(elfcorehdr_addr, elfcorehdr_size)) {
+		pr_warn("elfcorehdr is overlapped\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
+	memblock_reserve(elfcorehdr_addr, elfcorehdr_size);
+
+	pr_info("Reserving %lldKB of memory at 0x%llx for elfcorehdr\n",
+		elfcorehdr_size >> 10, elfcorehdr_addr);
+}
+#else
+static void __init reserve_elfcorehdr(void)
+{
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */
 /*
  * Return the maximum physical address for ZONE_DMA (DMA_BIT_MASK(32)). It
  * currently assumes that for memory starting above 4G, 32-bit devices will
@@ -423,6 +474,8 @@ void __init arm64_memblock_init(void)
 
 	reserve_crashkernel();
 
+	reserve_elfcorehdr();
+
 	dma_contiguous_reserve(arm64_dma_phys_limit);
 
 	memblock_allow_resize();