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Subject[RFC PATCH 3/5] livedump: Add page splitting functionality
This patch adds function "wrprotect_split" to split all large pages in
kernel space into 4K pages. This patch also adds tools/livedump/livedump
to kick wrprotect_split via ioctl operation.

***ATTENTION PLEASE***
Right now, the livedump module can handle only 4K pages. Before setting up
write protection, it has to split all large pages into 4K pages.
I think this job (page splitting) can be eliminated in the future.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIDA Masanori <masanori.yoshida.tv@hitachi.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---

arch/x86/Kconfig | 16 +++++++++++++++-
arch/x86/include/asm/wrprotect.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/mm/Makefile | 2 ++
arch/x86/mm/wrprotect.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/livedump.c | 5 +++++
tools/livedump/livedump | 13 +++++++++++++
6 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/wrprotect.h
create mode 100644 arch/x86/mm/wrprotect.c
create mode 100755 tools/livedump/livedump

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 32bc16d..9e6b53a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1702,9 +1702,23 @@ config CMDLINE_OVERRIDE
This is used to work around broken boot loaders. This should
be set to 'N' under normal conditions.

+config WRPROTECT
+ bool "Write protection on kernel space"
+ depends on X86_64
+ ---help---
+ Set this option to 'Y' to allow the kernel to write protect
+ its own memory space and to handle page fault caused by the
+ write protection.
+
+ This feature regularly causes small overhead on kernel.
+ Once this feature is activated, it causes much more overhead
+ on kernel.
+
+ If in doubt, say N.
+
config LIVEDUMP
bool "Live Dump support"
- depends on X86_64
+ depends on WRPROTECT
---help---
Set this option to 'Y' to allow the kernel support to acquire
a consistent snapshot of kernel space without stopping system.
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/wrprotect.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/wrprotect.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..40489e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/wrprotect.h
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/* wrprortect.h - Kernel space write protection support
+ * Copyright (C) 2011 Hitachi, Ltd.
+ * Author: YOSHIDA Masanori <masanori.yoshida.tv@hitachi.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+ * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
+ * MA 02110-1301, USA.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _WRPROTECT_H
+#define _WRPROTECT_H
+
+extern int wrprotect_split(void);
+
+#endif /* _WRPROTECT_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/Makefile b/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
index 3d11327..781a368 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
@@ -30,3 +30,5 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_NUMA_EMU) += numa_emulation.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK) += memblock.o

obj-$(CONFIG_MEMTEST) += memtest.o
+
+obj-$(CONFIG_WRPROTECT) += wrprotect.o
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/wrprotect.c b/arch/x86/mm/wrprotect.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2a69735
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/wrprotect.c
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/* wrprotect.c - Kernel space write protection support
+ * Copyright (C) 2011 Hitachi, Ltd.
+ * Author: YOSHIDA Masanori <masanori.yoshida.tv@hitachi.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+ * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
+ * MA 02110-1301, USA.
+ */
+
+#include <asm/wrprotect.h>
+#include <linux/highmem.h>
+
+int wrprotect_split(void)
+{
+ unsigned long pfn;
+ for (pfn = 0; pfn < num_physpages; pfn++) {
+ int ret = set_memory_4k((unsigned long)pfn_to_kaddr(pfn), 1);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
diff --git a/kernel/livedump.c b/kernel/livedump.c
index 198bda5..899d572 100644
--- a/kernel/livedump.c
+++ b/kernel/livedump.c
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
* MA 02110-1301, USA.
*/

+#include <asm/wrprotect.h>
+
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
@@ -25,11 +27,14 @@
#define DEVICE_NAME "livedump"

#define LIVEDUMP_IOC(x) _IO(0xff, x)
+#define LIVEDUMP_IOC_SPLIT LIVEDUMP_IOC(1)

static long livedump_ioctl(
struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
switch (cmd) {
+ case LIVEDUMP_IOC_SPLIT:
+ return wrprotect_split();
default:
return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
}
diff --git a/tools/livedump/livedump b/tools/livedump/livedump
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..c5e34d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/livedump/livedump
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import sys
+import fcntl
+
+cmds = {
+ 'split':0xff01,
+ }
+cmd = cmds[sys.argv[1]]
+
+f = open('/dev/livedump')
+fcntl.ioctl(f, cmd)
+f.close


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