powerpc/crash: add crash memory hotplug support
Extend the arch crash hotplug handler, as introduced by the patch title ("powerpc: add crash CPU hotplug support"), to also support memory add/remove events. Elfcorehdr describes the memory of the crash kernel to capture the kernel; hence, it needs to be updated if memory resources change due to memory add/remove events. Therefore, arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event() is updated to recreate the elfcorehdr and replace it with the previous one on memory add/remove events. The memblock list is used to prepare the elfcorehdr. In the case of memory hot remove, the memblock list is updated after the arch crash hotplug handler is triggered, as depicted in Figure 1. Thus, the hot-removed memory is explicitly removed from the crash memory ranges to ensure that the memory ranges added to elfcorehdr do not include the hot-removed memory. Memory remove | v Offline pages | v Initiate memory notify call <----> crash hotplug handler chain for MEM_OFFLINE event | v Update memblock list Figure 1 There are two system calls, `kexec_file_load` and `kexec_load`, used to load the kdump image. A few changes have been made to ensure that the kernel can safely update the elfcorehdr component of the kdump image for both system calls. For the kexec_file_load syscall, kdump image is prepared in the kernel. To support an increasing number of memory regions, the elfcorehdr is built with extra buffer space to ensure that it can accommodate additional memory ranges in future. For the kexec_load syscall, the elfcorehdr is updated only if the KEXEC_CRASH_HOTPLUG_SUPPORT kexec flag is passed to the kernel by the kexec tool. Passing this flag to the kernel indicates that the elfcorehdr is built to accommodate additional memory ranges and the elfcorehdr segment is not considered for SHA calculation, making it safe to update. The changes related to this feature are kept under the CRASH_HOTPLUG config, and it is enabled by default. Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://msgid.link/20240326055413.186534-7-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
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