[PATCH] arm64: Do not defer reserve_crashkernel() for platforms with no DMA memory zones

From: Vijay Balakrishna
Date: Wed Feb 16 2022 - 19:05:19 EST


The following patches resulted in deferring crash kernel reservation to
mem_init(), mainly aimed at platforms with DMA memory zones (no IOMMU),
in particular Raspberry Pi 4.

commit 1a8e1cef7603 ("arm64: use both ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32")
commit 8424ecdde7df ("arm64: mm: Set ZONE_DMA size based on devicetree's dma-ranges")
commit 0a30c53573b0 ("arm64: mm: Move reserve_crashkernel() into mem_init()")
commit 2687275a5843 ("arm64: Force NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS if crashkernel reservation is required")

Above changes introduced boot slowdown due to linear map creation for
all the memory banks with NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS, see discussion[1]. The proposed
changes restore crash kernel reservation to earlier behavior thus avoids
slow boot, particularly for platforms with IOMMU (no DMA memory zones).

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/9436d033-579b-55fa-9b00-6f4b661c2dd7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Signed-off-by: Vijay Balakrishna <vijayb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
Tested changes to confirm no ~150ms boot slowdown on our SoC with IOMMU
and 8GB memory. Also tested with ZONE_DMA and/or ZONE_DMA32 configs to confirm
no regression to deferring scheme of crash kernel memory reservation.
In both cases successfully collected kernel crash dump.
---
arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 14 +++++++++++---
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index db63cc885771..f2a982c19b75 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -62,7 +62,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(memstart_addr);
* In such case, ZONE_DMA32 covers the rest of the 32-bit addressable memory,
* otherwise it is empty.
*/
-phys_addr_t arm64_dma_phys_limit __ro_after_init;
+#if !defined(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA) && !defined(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32)
+phys_addr_t __ro_after_init arm64_dma_phys_limit = PHYS_MASK + 1;
+#else
+phys_addr_t __ro_after_init arm64_dma_phys_limit;
+#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
/*
@@ -153,8 +157,6 @@ static void __init zone_sizes_init(unsigned long min, unsigned long max)
if (!arm64_dma_phys_limit)
arm64_dma_phys_limit = dma32_phys_limit;
#endif
- if (!arm64_dma_phys_limit)
- arm64_dma_phys_limit = PHYS_MASK + 1;
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_NORMAL] = max;

free_area_init(max_zone_pfns);
@@ -315,6 +317,10 @@ void __init arm64_memblock_init(void)

early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem();

+#if !defined(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA) && !defined(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32)
+ reserve_crashkernel();
+#endif
+
high_memory = __va(memblock_end_of_DRAM() - 1) + 1;
}

@@ -357,11 +363,13 @@ void __init bootmem_init(void)
*/
dma_contiguous_reserve(arm64_dma_phys_limit);

+#if defined(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA) || defined(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32)
/*
* request_standard_resources() depends on crashkernel's memory being
* reserved, so do it here.
*/
reserve_crashkernel();
+#endif

memblock_dump_all();
}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index acfae9b41cc8..e7faf5edccfc 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
*/
BUILD_BUG_ON(pgd_index(direct_map_end - 1) == pgd_index(direct_map_end));

- if (can_set_direct_map() || crash_mem_map || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE))
+ if (can_set_direct_map() || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE))
flags |= NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS;

/*
@@ -528,6 +528,14 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
*/
memblock_mark_nomap(kernel_start, kernel_end - kernel_start);

+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
+ if (crash_mem_map && !crashk_res.end)
+ flags |= NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS;
+
+ if (crashk_res.end)
+ memblock_mark_nomap(crashk_res.start,
+ resource_size(&crashk_res));
+#endif
/* map all the memory banks */
for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) {
if (start >= end)
@@ -554,6 +562,20 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
__map_memblock(pgdp, kernel_start, kernel_end,
PAGE_KERNEL, NO_CONT_MAPPINGS);
memblock_clear_nomap(kernel_start, kernel_end - kernel_start);
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
+ /*
+ * Use page-level mappings here so that we can shrink the region
+ * in page granularity and put back unused memory to buddy system
+ * through /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size interface.
+ */
+ if (crashk_res.end) {
+ __map_memblock(pgdp, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end + 1,
+ PAGE_KERNEL,
+ NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS);
+ memblock_clear_nomap(crashk_res.start,
+ resource_size(&crashk_res));
+ }
+#endif
}

void mark_rodata_ro(void)
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