Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH 1/5] s390: make crashk_res resource a child of "System RAM"

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On 31.05.21 14:29, Mike Rapoport wrote:
From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Commit 4e042af463f8 ("s390/kexec: fix crash on resize of reserved memory")
added a comment that says "crash kernel resource should not be part of the
System RAM resource" but never explained why. As it looks from the code in
the kernel and in kexec there is no actual reason for that.

Are you sure?

Looking at kexec-tools: kexec/arch/s390/kexec-s390.c

get_memory_ranges_s390() wants "System RAM" and Crash kernel only with "with_crashk=1". Your patch would change that. "Crash kernel" would always be included if you make it a child of "System RAM".

Further, get_memory_ranges() and is_crashkernel_mem_reserved() look out for "Crash kernel\n" via parse_iomem_single().

However, parse_iomem_single() does not care about ranges that start with spaces IIRC via
  sscanf(line, "%llx-%llx : %n" ...

So once you make "Crash kernel" a child of "System RAM", kexec-tools would break if I'm not completely wrong.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb




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