linux/kernel/kexec.c
Alexander Graf 07d2490297 kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation
When booting a new kernel with kexec_file, the kernel picks a target
location that the kernel should live at, then allocates random pages,
checks whether any of those patches magically happens to coincide with a
target address range and if so, uses them for that range.

For every page allocated this way, it then creates a page list that the
relocation code - code that executes while all CPUs are off and we are
just about to jump into the new kernel - copies to their final memory
location.  We can not put them there before, because chances are pretty
good that at least some page in the target range is already in use by the
currently running Linux environment.  Copying is happening from a single
CPU at RAM rate, which takes around 4-50 ms per 100 MiB.

All of this is inefficient and error prone.

To successfully kexec, we need to quiesce all devices of the outgoing
kernel so they don't scribble over the new kernel's memory.  We have seen
cases where that does not happen properly (*cough* GIC *cough*) and hence
the new kernel was corrupted.  This started a month long journey to root
cause failing kexecs to eventually see memory corruption, because the new
kernel was corrupted severely enough that it could not emit output to tell
us about the fact that it was corrupted.  By allocating memory for the
next kernel from a memory range that is guaranteed scribbling free, we can
boot the next kernel up to a point where it is at least able to detect
corruption and maybe even stop it before it becomes severe.  This
increases the chance for successful kexecs.

Since kexec got introduced, Linux has gained the CMA framework which can
perform physically contiguous memory mappings, while keeping that memory
available for movable memory when it is not needed for contiguous
allocations.  The default CMA allocator is for DMA allocations.

This patch adds logic to the kexec file loader to attempt to place the
target payload at a location allocated from CMA.  If successful, it uses
that memory range directly instead of creating copy instructions during
the hot phase.  To ensure that there is a safety net in case anything goes
wrong with the CMA allocation, it also adds a flag for user space to force
disable CMA allocations.

Using CMA allocations has two advantages:

  1) Faster by 4-50 ms per 100 MiB. There is no more need to copy in the
     hot phase.
  2) More robust. Even if by accident some page is still in use for DMA,
     the new kernel image will be safe from that access because it resides
     in a memory region that is considered allocated in the old kernel and
     has a chance to reinitialize that component.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250610085327.51817-1-graf@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Zhongkun He <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-08-02 12:01:38 -07:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/*
* kexec.c - kexec_load system call
* Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
*/
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
#include <linux/capability.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/kexec.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include "kexec_internal.h"
static int kimage_alloc_init(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
unsigned long nr_segments,
struct kexec_segment *segments,
unsigned long flags)
{
int ret;
struct kimage *image;
bool kexec_on_panic = flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH;
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
if (kexec_on_panic) {
/* Verify we have a valid entry point */
if ((entry < phys_to_boot_phys(crashk_res.start)) ||
(entry > phys_to_boot_phys(crashk_res.end)))
return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
}
#endif
/* Allocate and initialize a controlling structure */
image = do_kimage_alloc_init();
if (!image)
return -ENOMEM;
image->start = entry;
image->nr_segments = nr_segments;
memcpy(image->segment, segments, nr_segments * sizeof(*segments));
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
if (kexec_on_panic) {
/* Enable special crash kernel control page alloc policy. */
image->control_page = crashk_res.start;
image->type = KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH;
}
#endif
ret = sanity_check_segment_list(image);
if (ret)
goto out_free_image;
/*
* Find a location for the control code buffer, and add it
* the vector of segments so that it's pages will also be
* counted as destination pages.
*/
ret = -ENOMEM;
image->control_code_page = kimage_alloc_control_pages(image,
get_order(KEXEC_CONTROL_PAGE_SIZE));
if (!image->control_code_page) {
pr_err("Could not allocate control_code_buffer\n");
goto out_free_image;
}
if (!kexec_on_panic) {
image->swap_page = kimage_alloc_control_pages(image, 0);
if (!image->swap_page) {
pr_err("Could not allocate swap buffer\n");
goto out_free_control_pages;
}
}
*rimage = image;
return 0;
out_free_control_pages:
kimage_free_page_list(&image->control_pages);
out_free_image:
kfree(image);
return ret;
}
static int do_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,
struct kexec_segment *segments, unsigned long flags)
{
struct kimage **dest_image, *image;
unsigned long i;
int ret;
/*
* Because we write directly to the reserved memory region when loading
* crash kernels we need a serialization here to prevent multiple crash
* kernels from attempting to load simultaneously.
*/
if (!kexec_trylock())
return -EBUSY;
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) {
dest_image = &kexec_crash_image;
if (kexec_crash_image)
arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres();
} else
#endif
dest_image = &kexec_image;
if (nr_segments == 0) {
/* Uninstall image */
kimage_free(xchg(dest_image, NULL));
ret = 0;
goto out_unlock;
}
if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) {
/*
* Loading another kernel to switch to if this one
* crashes. Free any current crash dump kernel before
* we corrupt it.
*/
kimage_free(xchg(&kexec_crash_image, NULL));
}
ret = kimage_alloc_init(&image, entry, nr_segments, segments, flags);
if (ret)
goto out_unlock;
if (flags & KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT)
image->preserve_context = 1;
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
if ((flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) && arch_crash_hotplug_support(image, flags))
image->hotplug_support = 1;
#endif
ret = machine_kexec_prepare(image);
if (ret)
goto out;
/*
* Some architecture(like S390) may touch the crash memory before
* machine_kexec_prepare(), we must copy vmcoreinfo data after it.
*/
ret = kimage_crash_copy_vmcoreinfo(image);
if (ret)
goto out;
for (i = 0; i < nr_segments; i++) {
ret = kimage_load_segment(image, i);
if (ret)
goto out;
}
kimage_terminate(image);
ret = machine_kexec_post_load(image);
if (ret)
goto out;
/* Install the new kernel and uninstall the old */
image = xchg(dest_image, image);
out:
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
if ((flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) && kexec_crash_image)
arch_kexec_protect_crashkres();
#endif
kimage_free(image);
out_unlock:
kexec_unlock();
return ret;
}
/*
* Exec Kernel system call: for obvious reasons only root may call it.
*
* This call breaks up into three pieces.
* - A generic part which loads the new kernel from the current
* address space, and very carefully places the data in the
* allocated pages.
*
* - A generic part that interacts with the kernel and tells all of
* the devices to shut down. Preventing on-going dmas, and placing
* the devices in a consistent state so a later kernel can
* reinitialize them.
*
* - A machine specific part that includes the syscall number
* and then copies the image to it's final destination. And
* jumps into the image at entry.
*
* kexec does not sync, or unmount filesystems so if you need
* that to happen you need to do that yourself.
*/
static inline int kexec_load_check(unsigned long nr_segments,
unsigned long flags)
{
int image_type = (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) ?
KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH : KEXEC_TYPE_DEFAULT;
int result;
/* We only trust the superuser with rebooting the system. */
if (!kexec_load_permitted(image_type))
return -EPERM;
/* Permit LSMs and IMA to fail the kexec */
result = security_kernel_load_data(LOADING_KEXEC_IMAGE, false);
if (result < 0)
return result;
/*
* kexec can be used to circumvent module loading restrictions, so
* prevent loading in that case
*/
result = security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_KEXEC);
if (result)
return result;
/*
* Verify we have a legal set of flags
* This leaves us room for future extensions.
*/
if ((flags & KEXEC_FLAGS) != (flags & ~KEXEC_ARCH_MASK))
return -EINVAL;
/* Put an artificial cap on the number
* of segments passed to kexec_load.
*/
if (nr_segments > KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
return 0;
}
SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned long, entry, unsigned long, nr_segments,
struct kexec_segment __user *, segments, unsigned long, flags)
{
struct kexec_segment *ksegments;
unsigned long result;
result = kexec_load_check(nr_segments, flags);
if (result)
return result;
/* Verify we are on the appropriate architecture */
if (((flags & KEXEC_ARCH_MASK) != KEXEC_ARCH) &&
((flags & KEXEC_ARCH_MASK) != KEXEC_ARCH_DEFAULT))
return -EINVAL;
ksegments = memdup_array_user(segments, nr_segments, sizeof(ksegments[0]));
if (IS_ERR(ksegments))
return PTR_ERR(ksegments);
result = do_kexec_load(entry, nr_segments, ksegments, flags);
kfree(ksegments);
return result;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, compat_ulong_t, entry,
compat_ulong_t, nr_segments,
struct compat_kexec_segment __user *, segments,
compat_ulong_t, flags)
{
struct compat_kexec_segment in;
struct kexec_segment *ksegments;
unsigned long i, result;
result = kexec_load_check(nr_segments, flags);
if (result)
return result;
/* Don't allow clients that don't understand the native
* architecture to do anything.
*/
if ((flags & KEXEC_ARCH_MASK) == KEXEC_ARCH_DEFAULT)
return -EINVAL;
ksegments = kmalloc_array(nr_segments, sizeof(ksegments[0]),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ksegments)
return -ENOMEM;
for (i = 0; i < nr_segments; i++) {
result = copy_from_user(&in, &segments[i], sizeof(in));
if (result)
goto fail;
ksegments[i].buf = compat_ptr(in.buf);
ksegments[i].bufsz = in.bufsz;
ksegments[i].mem = in.mem;
ksegments[i].memsz = in.memsz;
}
result = do_kexec_load(entry, nr_segments, ksegments, flags);
fail:
kfree(ksegments);
return result;
}
#endif