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net: qed: Disable SRIOV functionality inside kdump kernel
authorBhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Mon, 11 May 2020 10:11:42 +0000 (15:41 +0530)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 11 May 2020 20:24:59 +0000 (13:24 -0700)
commitd85c802ddc7bd26a4249b9f388caec5d9a308705
tree10019e0f4ed358ff923f3882c8290f869e31312e
parent036980db6120dab8be3d2ace1c87d3fdce56399f
net: qed: Disable SRIOV functionality inside kdump kernel

Since we have kdump kernel(s) running under severe memory constraint
it makes sense to disable the qed SRIOV functionality when running the
kdump kernel as kdump configurations on several distributions don't
support SRIOV targets for saving the vmcore (see [1] for example).

Currently the qed SRIOV functionality ends up consuming memory in
the kdump kernel, when we don't really use the same.

An example log seen in the kdump kernel with the SRIOV functionality
enabled can be seen below (obtained via memstrack tool, see [2]):
 dracut-pre-pivot[676]: ======== Report format module_summary: ========
 dracut-pre-pivot[676]: Module qed using 149.6MB (2394 pages), peak allocation 149.6MB (2394 pages)

This patch disables the SRIOV functionality inside kdump kernel and with
the same applied the memory consumption goes down:
 dracut-pre-pivot[671]: ======== Report format module_summary: ========
 dracut-pre-pivot[671]: Module qed using 124.6MB (1993 pages), peak allocation 124.7MB (1995 pages)

[1]. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/managing_monitoring_and_updating_the_kernel/installing-and-configuring-kdump_managing-monitoring-and-updating-the-kernel#supported-kdump-targets_supported-kdump-configurations-and-targets
[2]. Memstrack tool: https://github.com/ryncsn/memstrack

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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ariel Elior <aelior@marvell.com>
Cc: GR-everest-linux-l2@marvell.com
Cc: Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_sriov.h
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c