linux/arch/x86/kernel/crash_dump_64.c
Cliff Wickman 3ee48b6af4 mm, x86: Saving vmcore with non-lazy freeing of vmas
During the reading of /proc/vmcore the kernel is doing
ioremap()/iounmap() repeatedly. And the buildup of un-flushed
vm_area_struct's is causing a great deal of overhead. (rb_next()
is chewing up most of that time).

This solution is to provide function set_iounmap_nonlazy(). It
causes a subsequent call to iounmap() to immediately purge the
vma area (with try_purge_vmap_area_lazy()).

With this patch we have seen the time for writing a 250MB
compressed dump drop from 71 seconds to 44 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <E1OwHZ4-0005WK-Tw@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-17 09:11:56 +02:00

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/*
* Memory preserving reboot related code.
*
* Created by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha (hari@in.ibm.com)
* Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2004. All rights reserved
*/
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/io.h>
/* Stores the physical address of elf header of crash image. */
unsigned long long elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX;
/**
* copy_oldmem_page - copy one page from "oldmem"
* @pfn: page frame number to be copied
* @buf: target memory address for the copy; this can be in kernel address
* space or user address space (see @userbuf)
* @csize: number of bytes to copy
* @offset: offset in bytes into the page (based on pfn) to begin the copy
* @userbuf: if set, @buf is in user address space, use copy_to_user(),
* otherwise @buf is in kernel address space, use memcpy().
*
* Copy a page from "oldmem". For this page, there is no pte mapped
* in the current kernel. We stitch up a pte, similar to kmap_atomic.
*/
ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf,
size_t csize, unsigned long offset, int userbuf)
{
void *vaddr;
if (!csize)
return 0;
vaddr = ioremap_cache(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE);
if (!vaddr)
return -ENOMEM;
if (userbuf) {
if (copy_to_user(buf, vaddr + offset, csize)) {
iounmap(vaddr);
return -EFAULT;
}
} else
memcpy(buf, vaddr + offset, csize);
set_iounmap_nonlazy();
iounmap(vaddr);
return csize;
}