On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 08:07:58PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 02:55:25PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote: > > From: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > The lower bounds of crash kernel reservation and crash kernel low > > reservation are different, use the consistent value CRASH_ALIGN. > > A big WHY is missing here to explain why the lower bound of the > allocation range needs to be 16M and why was 0 wrong? I asked the same here: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210224143547.GB28965@xxxxxxx IIRC Baoquan said that there is a 1MB reserved for x86 anyway in the lower part, so that's equivalent in practice to starting from CRASH_ALIGN. Anyway, I agree the commit log should describe this. -- Catalin
