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fs/proc/vmcore.c: add hook to read_from_oldmem() to check for non-ram pages

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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>
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Olaf Hering 2011-05-26 16:25:54 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 98bc93e505
commit 997c136f51
2 changed files with 54 additions and 3 deletions
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include/linux/crash_dump.h
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@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ 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 */