On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 03:15:03PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 30.05.25 22:29, Jiri Bohac wrote:
> > When re-using the CMA area for kdump there is a risk of pending DMA into
> > pinned user pages in the CMA area.
> >
> > Pages that are pinned long-term are migrated away from CMA, so these are
> > not a concern. Pages pinned without FOLL_LONGTERM remain in the CMA and may
> > possibly be the source or destination of a pending DMA transfer.
>
> I'll note that we right now do have an upstream BUG where that is sometimes
> not the case. I mentioned it previously that such bugs will be a problem :(
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250523023709epcms1p236d4f55b79adb9366ec1cf6d5792b06b@epcms1p2
I'll just reitarate the whole purpose of this patchset, as
added to Documentation:
+ This option increases the risk of a kdump failure: DMA transfers
+ configured by the first kernel may end up corrupting the second
+ kernel's memory.
+
+ This reservation method is intended for systems that can't afford to
+ sacrifice enough memory for standard crashkernel reservation and where
+ less reliable and possibly incomplete kdump is preferable to no kdump at
+ all.
It is expected that kdump may be less reliable when ,cma is used.
You mentioned a bug that augments this unreliability and that is surely going
to get fixed.
I think this is fine.
The whole point is getting a completely optional best-effort kdump when
otherwise we would have no kdump.
> > +static void crash_cma_clear_pending_dma(void)
> > +{
> > + unsigned int s = cma_dma_timeout_sec;
> > +
> > + if (!crashk_cma_cnt)
> > + return;
> > +
> > + while (s--)
> > + mdelay(1000);
>
> Any reason we cannot do it in a single mdelay() invocation?
>
> mdelay() already is a loop around udelay on larger values IIUC.
No good reasons ;)
I just wanted to prevent a totally theoretical overflow (if cma_dma_timeout_sec
was made configurable;
I also anticipated someone might want to add some progress printks into the
cycle (without verifying if
that's even possible in this context).
If you want, I have no problem changing this to:
+ mdelay(cma_dma_timeout_sec * 1000);
--
Jiri Bohac <jbo...@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, Prague, Czechia
