Hi all, Friendly ping... On 2019/12/23 23:23, Chen Zhou wrote: > This patch series enable reserving crashkernel above 4G in arm64. > > There are following issues in arm64 kdump: > 1. We use crashkernel=X to reserve crashkernel below 4G, which will fail > when there is no enough low memory. > 2. Currently, crashkernel=Y@X can be used to reserve crashkernel above 4G, > in this case, if swiotlb or DMA buffers are required, crash dump kernel > will boot failure because there is no low memory available for allocation. > > To solve these issues, introduce crashkernel=X,low to reserve specified > size low memory. > Crashkernel=X tries to reserve memory for the crash dump kernel under > 4G. If crashkernel=Y,low is specified simultaneously, reserve spcified > size low memory for crash kdump kernel devices firstly and then reserve > memory above 4G. > > When crashkernel is reserved above 4G in memory, that is, crashkernel=X,low > is specified simultaneously, kernel should reserve specified size low memory > for crash dump kernel devices. So there may be two crash kernel regions, one > is below 4G, the other is above 4G. > In order to distinct from the high region and make no effect to the use of > kexec-tools, rename the low region as "Crash kernel (low)", and add DT property > "linux,low-memory-range" to crash dump kernel's dtb to pass the low region. > > Besides, we need to modify kexec-tools: > arm64: kdump: add another DT property to crash dump kernel's dtb(see [1]) > > The previous changes and discussions can be retrieved from: > > Changes since [v6] > - Fix build errors reported by kbuild test robot. > > Changes since [v5] > - Move reserve_crashkernel_low() into kernel/crash_core.c. > - Delete crashkernel=X,high. > - Modify crashkernel=X,low. > If crashkernel=X,low is specified simultaneously, reserve spcified size low > memory for crash kdump kernel devices firstly and then reserve memory above 4G. > In addition, rename crashk_low_res as "Crash kernel (low)" for arm64, and then > pass to crash dump kernel by DT property "linux,low-memory-range". > - Update Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst. > > Changes since [v4] > - Reimplement memblock_cap_memory_ranges for multiple ranges by Mike. > > Changes since [v3] > - Add memblock_cap_memory_ranges back for multiple ranges. > - Fix some compiling warnings. > > Changes since [v2] > - Split patch "arm64: kdump: support reserving crashkernel above 4G" as > two. Put "move reserve_crashkernel_low() into kexec_core.c" in a separate > patch. > > Changes since [v1]: > - Move common reserve_crashkernel_low() code into kernel/kexec_core.c. > - Remove memblock_cap_memory_ranges() i added in v1 and implement that > in fdt_enforce_memory_region(). > There are at most two crash kernel regions, for two crash kernel regions > case, we cap the memory range [min(regs[*].start), max(regs[*].end)] > and then remove the memory range in the middle. > > [1]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2019-August/023569.html > [v1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/2/1174 > [v2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/9/86 > [v3]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/9/306 > [v4]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/15/273 > [v5]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/6/1360 > [v6]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/30/142 > > Chen Zhou (4): > x86: kdump: move reserve_crashkernel_low() into crash_core.c > arm64: kdump: reserve crashkenel above 4G for crash dump kernel > arm64: kdump: add memory for devices by DT property, low-memory-range > kdump: update Documentation about crashkernel on arm64 > > Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst | 13 +++- > Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 12 +++- > arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 8 ++- > arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++- > arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 62 ++---------------- > include/linux/crash_core.h | 3 + > include/linux/kexec.h | 2 - > kernel/crash_core.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ > kernel/kexec_core.c | 17 ----- > 9 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-) >
