----- "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai at kernel.org> wrote:
> Please check this one on top of tip or next.
This failed for both trees.
[root at localhost linux-next]# patch -Np1 <memblock.patch
patching file arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 516.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file arch/x86/kernel/setup.c.rej
>
> Thanks
>
> Yinghai
>
> [PATCH] x86, memblock: Fix crashkernel allocation
>
> Cai Qian found that crashkernel is broken with x86 memblock changes
> 1. crashkernel=128M at 32M always reported that range is used, even first
> kernel is small
> no one use that range
> 2. always get following report when using "kexec -p"
> Could not find a free area of memory of a000 bytes...
> locate_hole failed
>
> The root cause is that generic memblock_find_in_range() will try to
> get range from top_down.
> But crashkernel do need from low and specified range.
>
> Let's limit the target range with rash_base + crash_size to make sure
> that
> We get range from bottom.
>
> Reported-and-Bisected-by: CAI Qian <caiqian at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai at kernel.org>
>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -516,19 +516,28 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(v
>
> /* 0 means: find the address automatically */
> if (crash_base <= 0) {
> + unsigned long long start = 0;
> const unsigned long long alignment = 16<<20; /* 16M */
>
> - crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(alignment, ULONG_MAX,
> crash_size,
> - alignment);
> - if (crash_base == MEMBLOCK_ERROR) {
> + crash_base = alignment;
> + while (crash_base < 0xffffffff) {
> + start = memblock_find_in_range(crash_base,
> + crash_base + crash_size, crash_size, alignment);
> +
> + if (start == crash_base)
> + break;
> +
> + crash_base += alignment;
> + }
> + if (start != crash_base) {
> pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area
> found.\n");
> return;
> }
> } else {
> unsigned long long start;
>
> - start = memblock_find_in_range(crash_base, ULONG_MAX, crash_size,
> - 1<<20);
> + start = memblock_find_in_range(crash_base,
> + crash_base + crash_size, crash_size, 1<<20);
> if (start != crash_base) {
> pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - memory is in use.\n");
> return;
>
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