kexec: allocate the kexec control page with KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP

Introduce KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP to allow the architecture code
to override the gfp flags of the allocation for the kexec control
page. The loop in kimage_alloc_normal_control_pages allocates pages
with GFP_KERNEL until a page is found that happens to have an
address smaller than the KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT. On systems
with a large memory size but a small KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT
the loop will keep allocating memory until the oom killer steps in.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
tirimbino
Martin Schwidefsky 10 years ago
parent 27cf3a16b2
commit 7e01b5acd8
  1. 3
      arch/s390/include/asm/kexec.h
  2. 4
      include/linux/kexec.h
  3. 2
      kernel/kexec.c

@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
/* Not more than 2GB */
#define KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT (1UL<<31)
/* Allocate control page with GFP_DMA */
#define KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP GFP_DMA
/* Maximum address we can use for the crash control pages */
#define KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT (-1UL)

@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
#error KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT not defined
#endif
#ifndef KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP
#define KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP GFP_KERNEL
#endif
#ifndef KEXEC_CONTROL_PAGE_SIZE
#error KEXEC_CONTROL_PAGE_SIZE not defined
#endif

@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_normal_control_pages(struct kimage *image,
do {
unsigned long pfn, epfn, addr, eaddr;
pages = kimage_alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order);
pages = kimage_alloc_pages(KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP, order);
if (!pages)
break;
pfn = page_to_pfn(pages);

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