People reported crashkernel=384M reservation failed on a high end server with KASLR enabled. In that case there is enough free memory under 896M but crashkernel reservation still fails intermittently. The situation is crashkernel reservation code only finds free region under 896 MB with 128M aligned in case no ',high' being used. And KASLR could break the first 896M into several parts randomly thus the failure happens. User has no way to predict and make sure crashkernel=xM working unless he/she use 'crashkernel=xM,high'. Since 'crashkernel=xM' is the most common use case this issue is a serious bug. And we can't answer questions raised from customer: 1) why it doesn't succeed to reserve 896 MB; 2) what's wrong with memory region under 4G; 3) why I have to add ',high', I only require 384 MB, not 3840 MB. This patch tries to get memory region from 896 MB firstly, then [896MB,4G], finally above 4G. Dave Young sent the original post, and I just re-post it with commit log improvement as his requirement. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2017-October/019571.html There was an old discussion below (previously posted by Chao Wang): https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/15/601 Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx, Cc: vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- v6 -> v7: commit log improvement arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c index 3d872a5..fa62c81 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -551,6 +551,22 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void) high ? CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX : CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX, crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN); +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 + /* + * crashkernel=X reserve below 896M fails? Try below 4G + */ + if (!high && !crash_base) + crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN, + (1ULL << 32), + crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN); + /* + * crashkernel=X reserve below 4G fails? Try MAXMEM + */ + if (!high && !crash_base) + crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN, + CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX, + crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN); +#endif 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
