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powerpc/fadump: opt out from freeing pages on cma activation failure
authorHari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:46:17 +0000 (14:46 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 22:57:09 +0000 (15:57 -0700)
commit03a75d100d1de5c22c092f04b95ecf88f9cb2afe
tree1f2a7fc91a01f172d75d94eaca6ad9acd5cad0e2
parentac943d0640c461be200b10af0b759b393dfac16b
powerpc/fadump: opt out from freeing pages on cma activation failure

With commit 1033151e9b41 ("powerpc/fadump: Reservationless firmware
assisted dump"), Linux kernel's Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA) based
reservation was introduced in fadump.  That change was aimed at using CMA
to let applications utilize the memory reserved for fadump while blocking
it from being used for kernel pages.  The assumption was, even if CMA
activation fails for whatever reason, the memory still remains reserved to
avoid it from being used for kernel pages.  But commit 023addc76f0a
("mm/cma: expose all pages to the buddy if activation of an area fails")
breaks this assumption as it started exposing all pages to buddy allocator
on CMA activation failure.  It led to warning messages like below while
running crash-utility on vmcore of a kernel having above two commits:

  crash: seek error: kernel virtual address: <from reserved region>

To fix this problem, opt out from exposing pages to buddy allocator on CMA
activation failure for fadump reserved memory.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220117075246.36072-3-hbathini@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c