Commit 24702162 authored by Zhiquan Li's avatar Zhiquan Li Committed by Andrew Morton
Browse files

crash: export PAGE_UNACCEPTED_MAPCOUNT_VALUE to vmcoreinfo

On Intel TDX guest, unaccepted memory is unusable free memory which is not
managed by buddy, until it's accepted by guest.  Before that, it cannot be
accessed by the first kernel as well as the kexec'ed kernel.  The kexec'ed
kernel will skip these pages and fill in zero data for the reader of
vmcore.

The dump tool like makedumpfile creates a page descriptor (size 24 bytes)
for each non-free page, including zero data page, but it will not create
descriptor for free pages.  If it is not able to distinguish these
unaccepted pages with zero data pages, a certain amount of space will be
wasted in proportion (~1/170).  In fact, as a special kind of free page
the unaccepted pages should be excluded, like the real free pages.

Export the page type PAGE_UNACCEPTED_MAPCOUNT_VALUE to vmcoreinfo, so that
dump tool can identify whether a page is unaccepted.

[zhiquan1.li@intel.com: fix docs: "Title underline too short" warning]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240809114854.3745464-5-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com/
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250405060610.860465-1-zhiquan1.li@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240809114854.3745464-5-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250403030801.758687-1-zhiquan1.li@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarZhiquan Li <zhiquan1.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhiquan Li <zhiquan1.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 3330dc1b
Loading
Loading
Loading
Loading
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Please to comment