On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 06:02:04AM +0800, Chen Jiahao wrote: > On riscv, the current crash kernel allocation logic is trying to > allocate within 32bit addressible memory region by default, if > failed, try to allocate without 4G restriction. > > In need of saving DMA zone memory while allocating a relatively large > crash kernel region, allocating the reserved memory top down in > high memory, without overlapping the DMA zone, is a mature solution. > Hence this patchset introduces the parameter option crashkernel=X,[high,low]. > > One can reserve the crash kernel from high memory above DMA zone range > by explicitly passing "crashkernel=X,high"; or reserve a memory range > below 4G with "crashkernel=X,low". Besides, there are few rules need > to take notice: > 1. "crashkernel=X,[high,low]" will be ignored if "crashkernel=size" > is specified. > 2. "crashkernel=X,low" is valid only when "crashkernel=X,high" is passed > and there is enough memory to be allocated under 4G. > 3. When allocating crashkernel above 4G and no "crashkernel=X,low" is > specified, a 128M low memory will be allocated automatically for > swiotlb bounce buffer. > See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for more information. > > To verify loading the crashkernel, adapted kexec-tools is attached below: > https://github.com/chenjh005/kexec-tools/tree/build-test-riscv-v2 Are you planning to submit the kexec-tools patches too?
