This will help understand codes on crashkernel reservations on arm64. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c index 26a05af2bfa8..f88ad17cb20d 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c @@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void) crash_base = memblock_phys_alloc_range(crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN, search_base, crash_max); if (!crash_base) { + /* + * For crashkernel=size[KMG]@offset[KMG], print out failure + * message if can't reserve the specified region. + */ if (fixed_base) { pr_warn("cannot reserve crashkernel region [0x%llx-0x%llx]\n", search_base, crash_max); @@ -188,6 +192,11 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void) * high memory, the minimum required low memory will be * reserved later. */ + /* + * For crashkernel=size[KMG], if the first attempt was for + * low memory, fall back to high memory, the minimum required + * low memory will be reserved later. + */ if (!high && crash_max == CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX) { crash_max = CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX; search_base = CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX; @@ -195,6 +204,10 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void) goto retry; } + /* + * For crashkernel=size[KMG],high, if the first attempt was for + * high memory, fall back to low memory. + */ if (high && (crash_max == CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX)) { crash_max = CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX; search_base = 0; -- 2.34.1 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec