Thread (52 messages) 52 messages, 5 authors, 2018-05-24

[PATCH v9 03/11] arm64: kexec_file: invoke the kernel without purgatory

From: james.morse@arm.com (James Morse)
Date: 2018-05-15 16:19:01
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Hi Akashi,

On 15/05/18 05:45, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 06:03:49PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
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On 07/05/18 06:22, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
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On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 06:46:06PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
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On 25/04/18 07:26, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index f76ea92dff91..f7dbba00be10 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -205,10 +205,17 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *kimage)
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 	cpu_soft_restart(kimage != kexec_crash_image,
-		reboot_code_buffer_phys, kimage->head, kimage->start, 0);
+		reboot_code_buffer_phys, kimage->head, kimage->start,
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE
+				kimage->purgatory_info.purgatory_buf ?
+						0 : kimage->arch.dtb_mem);
+#else
+				0);
+#endif
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purgatory_buf seems to only be set in kexec_purgatory_setup_kbuf(), called from
kexec_load_purgatory(), which we don't use. How does this get a value?

Would it be better to always use kimage->arch.dtb_mem, and ensure that is 0 for
regular kexec (as we can't know where the dtb is)? (image_arg may then be a
better name).
The problem is arch.dtb_mem is currently defined only if CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE.
I thought it was ARCH_HAS_KIMAGE_ARCH, which we can define all the time if
that's what we want.

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So I would like to
- merge this patch with patch#8
- change the condition
        #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE
       				kimage->file_mode ? kimage->arch.dtb_mem : 0);
        #else
        			0);
        #endif
If we can avoid even this #ifdef by always having kimage->arch, I'd prefer that.
If we do that 'dtb_mem' would need some thing that indicates its for kexec_file,
as kexec has a DTB too, we just don't know where it is...
OK, but I want to have a minimum of kexec.arch always exist.
I'm curious, why? Its 32bytes that is allocated a maximum of twice.

(my questions on what needs to go in there were because it looked like a third
user was missing...)

How about this?

| struct kimage_arch {
| 	phys_addr_t dtb_mem;
| #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE
#ifdef in structs just breeds more #ifdefs, as the code that accesses those
members has to be behind the same set of conditions.

Given this, I prefer the #ifdefs around cpu_soft_restart() as it doesn't force
us to add more #ifdefs later.

For either option without purgatory_info:
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>


Thanks,

James
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