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From: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Robert LeBlanc <robert@leblancnet.us>,
	Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/crash: Update the stale comment in reserve_crashkernel()
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:30:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1481772621-17923-1-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com> (raw)

CRASH_KERNEL_ADDR_MAX was missing for a long time, update it
with more detailed explanation.

Cc: Robert LeBlanc <robert@leblancnet.us>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 9c337b0..79ee507 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -575,7 +575,10 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
 	/* 0 means: find the address automatically */
 	if (crash_base <= 0) {
 		/*
-		 *  kexec want bzImage is below CRASH_KERNEL_ADDR_MAX
+		 * Set CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX upper bound for crash range
+		 * as old kexec-tools loads bzImage below that, unless
+		 * "size,high" or "size@offset"(nonzero offset, see the
+		 * else leg below) is specified.
 		 */
 		crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN,
 						    high ? CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX
-- 
1.8.3.1


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             reply	other threads:[~2016-12-15  3:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-15  3:30 Xunlei Pang [this message]
2016-12-22  3:22 ` [PATCH] x86/crash: Update the stale comment in reserve_crashkernel() Baoquan He
2016-12-23  8:37   ` Xunlei Pang

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