powerpc/mm: Track backing pages allocated by vmemmap_populate()

We need to keep track of the backing pages that get allocated by
vmemmap_populate() so that when we use kdump, the dump-capture kernel knows
where these pages are.

We use a simple linked list of structures that contain the physical address
of the backing page and corresponding virtual address to track the backing
pages.
To save space, we just use a pointer to the next struct vmemmap_backing. We
can also do this because we never remove nodes.  We call the pointer "list"
to be compatible with changes made to the crash utility.

vmemmap_populate() is called either at boot-time or on a memory hotplug
operation. We don't have to worry about the boot-time calls because they
will be inherently single-threaded, and for a memory hotplug operation
vmemmap_populate() is called through:
sparse_add_one_section()
            |
            V
kmalloc_section_memmap()
            |
            V
sparse_mem_map_populate()
            |
            V
vmemmap_populate()
and in sparse_add_one_section() we're protected by pgdat_resize_lock().
So, we don't need a spinlock to protect the vmemmap_list.

We allocate space for the vmemmap_backing structs by allocating whole pages
in vmemmap_list_alloc() and then handing out chunks of this to
vmemmap_list_populate().

This means that we waste at most just under one page, but this keeps the code
is simple.

Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgalloc-64.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgalloc-64.h
index 605f5c5398d..292725cec2e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgalloc-64.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgalloc-64.h
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@
 #include <linux/cpumask.h>
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 
+struct vmemmap_backing {
+	struct vmemmap_backing *list;
+	unsigned long phys;
+	unsigned long virt_addr;
+};
+
 /*
  * Functions that deal with pagetables that could be at any level of
  * the table need to be passed an "index_size" so they know how to