I encounter a case where crashkernel=384M, and kaslr is enabled. During the test, sometimes, the system may fail to reserve region for crash kernel, although there is much free space above 896MB. It is caused by the truncation of the candidate region by kaslr kernel. It raises confusion to the end user that sometimes crashkernel=X works while sometimes fails. Since on x86, kaslr is a default option, and this corner case is unavoidable. This patch simplifies the method suggested in the mail [1]. It just goes bottom-up to find a candidate region for crashkernel. There is one trivial thing about the compatibility with old kexec-tools: if the reserved region is above 896M, then old tool will fail to load bzImage. But without this patch, the old tool also fail since there is no memory below 896M can be reserved for crashkernel. [1]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2017-October/019571.html Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx, Cc: vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c index d494b9b..60f12c4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -541,15 +541,18 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void) /* 0 means: find the address automatically */ if (crash_base <= 0) { + if (!memblock_bottom_up()) + memblock_set_bottom_up(true); /* * Set CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX upper bound for crash memory, * as old kexec-tools loads bzImage below that, unless * "crashkernel=size[KMG],high" is specified. */ crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN, - high ? CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX - : CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX, - crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN); + (max_pfn * PAGE_SIZE), crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN); + if (!memblock_bottom_up()) + memblock_set_bottom_up(false); + if (!crash_base) { pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n"); return; -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
