Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] x86/crash: Introduce new options to support cpu and memory hotplug

[Baoquan He]

On 04/01/22 at 02:30pm, Eric DeVolder wrote:
> CRASH_HOTPLUG is to enable cpu and memory hotplug support of crash.
> 
> CRASH_HOTPLUG_ELFCOREHDR_SZ is used to specify the maximum size of
> the elfcorehdr buffer/segment.
> 
> This is a preparation for later usage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@xxxxxxxxxx>

LGTM,

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  arch/x86/Kconfig | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 7340d9f01b62..8b51d3196b82 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -2072,6 +2072,32 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
>  	  (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y).
>  	  For more details see Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
>  
> +config CRASH_HOTPLUG
> +	bool "kernel updates of crash elfcorehdr"
> +	depends on CRASH_DUMP && (HOTPLUG_CPU || MEMORY_HOTPLUG) && KEXEC_FILE
> +	help
> +	  Enable the kernel to update the crash elfcorehdr (which contains
> +	  the list of CPUs and memory regions) directly when hot plug/unplug
> +	  of CPUs or memory. Otherwise userspace must monitor these hot
> +	  plug/unplug change notifications via udev in order to
> +	  unload-then-reload the crash kernel so that the list of CPUs and
> +	  memory regions is kept up-to-date. Note that the udev CPU and
> +	  memory change notifications still occur (however, userspace is not
> +	  required to monitor for crash dump purposes).
> +
> +config CRASH_HOTPLUG_ELFCOREHDR_SZ
> +	depends on CRASH_HOTPLUG
> +	int
> +	default 131072
> +	help
> +	  Specify the maximum size of the elfcorehdr buffer/segment.
> +	  The 128KiB default is sized so that it can accommodate 2048
> +	  Elf64_Phdr, where each Phdr represents either a CPU or a
> +	  region of memory.
> +	  For example, this size can accommodate a machine with up to 1024
> +	  CPUs and up to 1024 memory regions, eg. as represented by the
> +	  'System RAM' entries in /proc/iomem.
> +
>  config KEXEC_JUMP
>  	bool "kexec jump"
>  	depends on KEXEC && HIBERNATION
> -- 
> 2.27.0
>