It's reported that kdump kernel failed to boot and can't dump vmcore
when crashkernel=192M and SME/SEV is active.
This is because swiotlb will be enabled and reserves 64M memory by
default on system with SME/SEV enabled. Then kdump kernel will be out of
memory after taking 64M away for swiotlb init.
So here add extra 64M memory to default crashkernel value so that kdump
kernel can function well as before. When doing that, search journalctl
for the "Memory Encryption Features active: AMD" to check if SME or SEV
is active. This line of log is printed out in kernel function as below
and the type SME is mutual exclusive with type SEV.
***:
arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c:print_mem_encrypt_feature_info()
Note:
1) The conditional check is relying on journalctl log because I didn't
find available system interface to check if SEV is active. Even
though we can check if SME is active via /proc/cpuinfo. For
consistency, I take the same check for both SME and SEV by searching
journalctl.
2) The conditional check is relying on journalctl log, means it won't
work for crashkernel setting in anoconda because the installation
kernel doesn't have the SME/SEV setting. So customer need manually
run 'kdumpctl reset-crashkernel' to reset crashkernel to add the
extra 64M after OS installation.
3) We need watch the line of log printing in
print_mem_encrypt_feature_info() in kernel just in case people may
change it in the future.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe(a)redhat.com>
---
v2->v3:
- Redirect the stdin|out to /dev/null since "journalctl -q" can't
suppress output completely. Suggested by Coiby.
- Define local variable "_delta" to contain the value added on
"$_ck_cmdline". This is suggested by Philipp.
kdump-lib.sh | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kdump-lib.sh b/kdump-lib.sh
index 16238c508f65..89b6d39506fb 100755
--- a/kdump-lib.sh
+++ b/kdump-lib.sh
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ is_aws_aarch64()
[[ "$(lscpu | grep "BIOS Model name")" =~ "AWS Graviton" ]]
}
+is_sme_or_sev_active()
+{
+ journalctl -q --dmesg --grep "^Memory Encryption Features active: AMD (SME|SEV)$" >/dev/null 2>&1
+}
+
is_squash_available()
{
local _version kmodule
@@ -917,6 +922,7 @@ _crashkernel_add()
kdump_get_arch_recommend_crashkernel()
{
local _arch _ck_cmdline _dump_mode
+ local _delta=0
if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
if is_fadump_capable; then
@@ -932,9 +938,9 @@ kdump_get_arch_recommend_crashkernel()
if [[ $_arch == "x86_64" ]] || [[ $_arch == "s390x" ]]; then
_ck_cmdline="1G-4G:192M,4G-64G:256M,64G-:512M"
+ is_sme_or_sev_active && ((_delta += 64))
elif [[ $_arch == "aarch64" ]]; then
local _running_kernel
- local _delta=0
# Base line for 4K variant kernel. The formula is based on x86 plus extra = 64M
_ck_cmdline="1G-4G:256M,4G-64G:320M,64G-:576M"
@@ -958,7 +964,6 @@ kdump_get_arch_recommend_crashkernel()
#4k kernel, mlx5 consumes extra 124M memory, and choose 150M
has_mlx5 && ((_delta += 150))
fi
- _ck_cmdline=$(_crashkernel_add "$_ck_cmdline" "$_delta")
elif [[ $_arch == "ppc64le" ]]; then
if [[ $_dump_mode == "fadump" ]]; then
_ck_cmdline="4G-16G:768M,16G-64G:1G,64G-128G:2G,128G-1T:4G,1T-2T:6G,2T-4T:12G,4T-8T:20G,8T-16T:36G,16T-32T:64G,32T-64T:128G,64T-:180G"
@@ -967,7 +972,7 @@ kdump_get_arch_recommend_crashkernel()
fi
fi
- echo -n "$_ck_cmdline"
+ echo -n "$(_crashkernel_add "$_ck_cmdline" "$_delta")"
}
# return recommended size based on current system RAM size
--
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