This patch removes an irrational limitation for crash dump kernel on ARM platform when SPARSEMEM enabled. Without this patch, crash reservation area for a crash dump kernel with SPARSEMEM selected must occupy a full section plus 1MiB. If not, elfcorehdr and some memory space used by the first kernel will unable to get accessed. This is caused by pfn_valid: fast pfn_valid ragards any pfn in a valid section as valid and prevents it to be ioremapped. This limitation wastes memory, because sections are always large and crash dump kernel should be as small as possible. This patch selects HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID for CRASH_DUMP, makes crash dump kernel to use strict version of pfn_valid(). Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0 at huawei.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan at huawei.com> --- This is the forth time I post this patch. The previous discussions can be retrived from: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-May/256498.html http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-May/257472.html http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-May/260322.html The second thread discusses the limitation in detail, but non of previous discussion reaches a conclusion. --- arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig index 87b63fd..aca8ee0 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -1725,7 +1725,7 @@ config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL def_bool ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE config HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID - def_bool ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL || !SPARSEMEM + def_bool ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL || !SPARSEMEM || CRASH_DUMP config HIGHMEM bool "High Memory Support" -- 1.8.4
