On x86_32 Qemu machine with 1GB memory, the cmdline "crashkernel=1G,high" will cause system stall as below: ACPI: Reserving FACP table memory at [mem 0x3ffe18b8-0x3ffe192b] ACPI: Reserving DSDT table memory at [mem 0x3ffe0040-0x3ffe18b7] ACPI: Reserving FACS table memory at [mem 0x3ffe0000-0x3ffe003f] ACPI: Reserving APIC table memory at [mem 0x3ffe192c-0x3ffe19bb] ACPI: Reserving HPET table memory at [mem 0x3ffe19bc-0x3ffe19f3] ACPI: Reserving WAET table memory at [mem 0x3ffe19f4-0x3ffe1a1b] 143MB HIGHMEM available. 879MB LOWMEM available. mapped low ram: 0 - 36ffe000 low ram: 0 - 36ffe000 (stall here) The reason is that the CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX is equal to CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX on x86_32, the first high crash kernel memory reservation will fail, then go into the "retry" loop and never came out as below. -> reserve_crashkernel_generic() and high is true -> alloc at [CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX, CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX] fail -> alloc at [0, CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX] fail and repeatedly (because CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX = CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX). Fix it by change the out check condition. After this patch, it print: cannot allocate crashkernel (size:0x40000000) Fixes: 9c08a2a139fe ("x86: kdump: use generic interface to simplify crashkernel reservation code") Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: - Peel off the other two patches. - Update the commit message and fix tag. --- kernel/crash_reserve.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/crash_reserve.c b/kernel/crash_reserve.c index 5b2722a93a48..5073ae205f79 100644 --- a/kernel/crash_reserve.c +++ b/kernel/crash_reserve.c @@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ void __init reserve_crashkernel_generic(char *cmdline, * For crashkernel=size[KMG],high, if the first attempt was * for high memory, fall back to low memory. */ - if (high && search_end == CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX) { + if (high && search_base == CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX) { search_end = CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX; search_base = 0; goto retry; -- 2.34.1 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec