The total memory size we get in kernel is usually slightly less than 2G with a
2G memory module machine. The main reason is bios/firmware reserve some area
it will not export all memory as usable to Linux.
2G memory X86 kvm guest test result of the total_mem value:
UEFI boot with ovmf: 0x7ef10000
Legacy boot kvm guest: 0x7ff7cc00
An option is to use dmi/smbios to get physical memory size, but it's not
reliable as well. According to Prarit hardware vendors sometimes screw this up.
Thus we choose to round up total size to 128M to workaround this problem.
This is a best effort workaround, will improve it when we have better way
in the future.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
---
kernel/crash_core.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- linux.orig/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ linux/kernel/crash_core.c
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ static int __init parse_crashkernel_mem(
{
char *cur = cmdline, *tmp;
bool infinite_end = false;
+ unsigned long long total_mem = system_ram;
+
+ /*
+ * Firmware usually reserves some memory regions for it's own use.
+ * so we get less than actual system memory size.
+ * We workaround this by round up the total size to 128M which is
+ * enough for most test cases.
+ */
+ total_mem = roundup(total_mem, 0x8000000);
/* for each entry of the comma-separated list */
do {
@@ -86,13 +95,13 @@ static int __init parse_crashkernel_mem(
return -EINVAL;
}
cur = tmp;
- if (size >= system_ram) {
+ if (size >= total_mem) {
pr_warn("crashkernel: invalid size\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
/* match ? */
- if (system_ram >= start && system_ram < end) {
+ if (total_mem >= start && total_mem < end) {
*crash_size = size;
if (end == ULLONG_MAX)
infinite_end = true;
@@ -126,9 +135,9 @@ static int __init parse_crashkernel_mem(
pr_warn("Memory reservation scale order expected after '^'\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
- size = (system_ram - *crash_size) >> shift;
+ size = (total_mem - *crash_size) >> shift;
size = *crash_size + roundup(size, 1ULL << 20);
- if (size < system_ram)
+ if (size < total_mem)
*crash_size = size;
cur = tmp;
} else
