From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:56:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <513E36FA.3030905@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4jllpfb.fsf@xmission.com>
On 03/11/2013 12:14 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> I don't totally follow the reasoning, but there is one real motivating
> example that is not easy to fix and it has little to do with
> kexec-tools. There is a practical issue that so far the easiest way
> to deal with iommus after a kexec on panic is to just not use them.
> The problem is what to do with existing DMAs transfers that were setup
> by the kernel that crashed and are using the iommu.
>
> When you are loaded above 4G not using iommus can be a challenge.
>
Isn't that what swiotlb is for?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-11 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-08 5:54 3.9-rc1: crash kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer earlier and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer WANG Chao
2013-03-08 6:03 ` CAI Qian
2013-03-08 6:03 ` CAI Qian
2013-03-08 6:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 6:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 6:36 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 6:36 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 7:20 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-08 7:20 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-08 7:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 7:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 7:33 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-08 7:33 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-08 7:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 7:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 12:12 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-08 18:24 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 18:24 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 19:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-08 19:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 3:42 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-11 3:42 ` WANG Chao
2013-03-11 4:56 ` [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 14:48 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 15:02 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 17:58 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 18:26 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 18:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 18:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 18:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 18:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 19:06 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 19:08 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:20 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:12 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 20:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-11 20:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 21:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 21:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 20:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 21:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 21:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-12 13:46 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-12 8:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-03-11 20:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 21:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 21:15 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:34 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:38 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:44 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-18 14:46 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-18 15:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-18 19:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-18 19:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-18 20:00 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-18 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-18 21:25 ` [PATCH v3] " Yinghai Lu
2013-03-18 22:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-18 23:26 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-19 0:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-19 1:04 ` [PATCH v4] " Yinghai Lu
2013-03-19 13:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-19 15:05 ` [PATCH v5] " Yinghai Lu
2013-03-20 13:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-20 15:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-20 16:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-20 16:21 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-20 16:31 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-20 19:22 ` [PATCH] kexec: use Crash kernel for Crash kernel low Yinghai Lu
2013-03-25 19:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-25 21:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-26 18:14 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-01 13:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-01 18:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-01 19:26 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-01 20:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-01 21:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-01 22:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-01 22:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-01 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-01 22:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 1:11 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 13:50 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 14:17 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 14:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 14:45 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 14:58 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 15:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 15:39 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 15:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 15:50 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-04-02 17:21 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-04-02 13:30 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-20 19:24 ` [PATCH] kdump, x86: Process multiple Crash kernel in /proc/iomem Yinghai Lu
2013-03-22 17:59 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-22 20:52 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-22 21:21 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-22 21:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-22 21:35 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-22 21:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-03-11 19:14 ` [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-11 19:22 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 20:17 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:56 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-03-11 19:02 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 19:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-11 19:17 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-03-11 13:14 ` 3.9-rc1: crash kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer earlier and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-11 13:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-08 7:52 ` Takao Indoh
2013-03-08 7:52 ` Takao Indoh
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