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author | Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> | 2011-05-26 16:25:54 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-26 17:12:37 -0700 |
commit | 997c136f518c5debd63847e78e2a8694f56dcf90 (patch) | |
tree | ac2ff48901be3e6834757675dcc177732e034a9f /fs/proc/vmcore.c | |
parent | 98bc93e505c03403479c6669c4ff97301cee6199 (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/vmcore.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/vmcore.c | 52 |
1 files changed, 49 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c index 74802bc5ded9..cd99bf557650 100644 --- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c +++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c @@ -35,6 +35,46 @@ static u64 vmcore_size; static struct proc_dir_entry *proc_vmcore = NULL; +/* + * Returns > 0 for RAM pages, 0 for non-RAM pages, < 0 on error + * The called function has to take care of module refcounting. + */ +static int (*oldmem_pfn_is_ram)(unsigned long pfn); + +int register_oldmem_pfn_is_ram(int (*fn)(unsigned long pfn)) +{ + if (oldmem_pfn_is_ram) + return -EBUSY; + oldmem_pfn_is_ram = fn; + return 0; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_oldmem_pfn_is_ram); + +void unregister_oldmem_pfn_is_ram(void) +{ + oldmem_pfn_is_ram = NULL; + wmb(); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_oldmem_pfn_is_ram); + +static int pfn_is_ram(unsigned long pfn) +{ + int (*fn)(unsigned long pfn); + /* pfn is ram unless fn() checks pagetype */ + int ret = 1; + + /* + * Ask hypervisor if the pfn is really ram. + * A ballooned page contains no data and reading from such a page + * will cause high load in the hypervisor. + */ + fn = oldmem_pfn_is_ram; + if (fn) + ret = fn(pfn); + + return ret; +} + /* Reads a page from the oldmem device from given offset. */ static ssize_t read_from_oldmem(char *buf, size_t count, u64 *ppos, int userbuf) @@ -55,9 +95,15 @@ static ssize_t read_from_oldmem(char *buf, size_t count, else nr_bytes = count; - tmp = copy_oldmem_page(pfn, buf, nr_bytes, offset, userbuf); - if (tmp < 0) - return tmp; + /* If pfn is not ram, return zeros for sparse dump files */ + if (pfn_is_ram(pfn) == 0) + memset(buf, 0, nr_bytes); + else { + tmp = copy_oldmem_page(pfn, buf, nr_bytes, + offset, userbuf); + if (tmp < 0) + return tmp; + } *ppos += nr_bytes; count -= nr_bytes; buf += nr_bytes; |