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authorOlaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>2011-05-26 19:25:54 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-26 20:12:37 -0400
commit997c136f518c5debd63847e78e2a8694f56dcf90 (patch)
treeac2ff48901be3e6834757675dcc177732e034a9f /include/linux
parent98bc93e505c03403479c6669c4ff97301cee6199 (diff)
fs/proc/vmcore.c: add hook to read_from_oldmem() to check for non-ram pages
The balloon driver in a Xen guest frees guest pages and marks them as mmio. When the kernel crashes and the crash kernel attempts to read the oldmem via /proc/vmcore a read from ballooned pages will generate 100% load in dom0 because Xen asks qemu-dm for the page content. Since the reads come in as 8byte requests each ballooned page is tried 512 times. With this change a hook can be registered which checks wether the given pfn is really ram. The hook has to return a value > 0 for ram pages, a value < 0 on error (because the hypercall is not known) and 0 for non-ram pages. This will reduce the time to read /proc/vmcore. Without this change a 512M guest with 128M crashkernel region needs 200 seconds to read it, with this change it takes just 2 seconds. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/crash_dump.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/crash_dump.h b/include/linux/crash_dump.h
index 088cd4ace4ef..74054074e876 100644
--- a/include/linux/crash_dump.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_dump.h
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ static inline void vmcore_unusable(void)
66 if (is_kdump_kernel()) 66 if (is_kdump_kernel())
67 elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR; 67 elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR;
68} 68}
69
70#define HAVE_OLDMEM_PFN_IS_RAM 1
71extern int register_oldmem_pfn_is_ram(int (*fn)(unsigned long pfn));
72extern void unregister_oldmem_pfn_is_ram(void);
73
69#else /* !CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */ 74#else /* !CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */
70static inline int is_kdump_kernel(void) { return 0; } 75static inline int is_kdump_kernel(void) { return 0; }
71#endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */ 76#endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */