Re: [PATCH 1/5] arm64: kdump: Provide default size when crashkernel=Y,low is not specified

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On 06/13/22 at 04:09pm, Zhen Lei wrote:
> To be consistent with the implementation of x86 and improve cross-platform
> user experience. Try to allocate at least 256 MiB low memory automatically
> when crashkernel=Y,low is not specified.

This should correspond to the case that crashkernel=,high is explicitly
specified, while crashkenrel=,low is omitted. It could be better to
mention these.

Otherwise, this looks good to me.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  8 +-------
>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c                            | 12 +++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 8090130b544b070..61b179232b68001 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@
>  			available.
>  			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
>  	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
> -			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
> +			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
                        ~~~~ exceeds 80 characters, it should be OK.

>  			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
>  			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
>  			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
> @@ -857,12 +857,6 @@
>  			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
>  			or memory reserved is below 4G.
>  
> -			[KNL, ARM64] range in low memory.
> -			This one lets the user specify a low range in the
> -			DMA zone for the crash dump kernel.
> -			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
> -			or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones.
> -
>  	cryptomgr.notests
>  			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index 339ee84e5a61a0b..5390f361208ccf7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -96,6 +96,14 @@ phys_addr_t __ro_after_init arm64_dma_phys_limit = PHYS_MASK + 1;
>  #define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX		arm64_dma_phys_limit
>  #define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX		(PHYS_MASK + 1)
>  
> +/*
> + * This is an empirical value in x86_64 and taken here directly. Please
> + * refer to the code comment in reserve_crashkernel_low() of x86_64 for more
> + * details.
> + */
> +#define DEFAULT_CRASH_KERNEL_LOW_SIZE	\
> +	max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + (8UL << 20), 256UL << 20)
> +
>  static int __init reserve_crashkernel_low(unsigned long long low_size)
>  {
>  	unsigned long long low_base;
> @@ -147,7 +155,9 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
>  		 * is not allowed.
>  		 */
>  		ret = parse_crashkernel_low(cmdline, 0, &crash_low_size, &crash_base);
> -		if (ret && (ret != -ENOENT))
> +		if (ret == -ENOENT)
> +			crash_low_size = DEFAULT_CRASH_KERNEL_LOW_SIZE;
> +		else if (ret)
>  			return;
>  
>  		crash_max = CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX;
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 




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