From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 18:13:42 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 5/5] kdump: update Documentation about crashkernel Message-ID: <20200902171341.GC16673@gaia> References: <20200801130856.86625-1-chenzhou10@huawei.com> <20200801130856.86625-6-chenzhou10@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200801130856.86625-6-chenzhou10@huawei.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Chen Zhou Cc: wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, bhsharma@redhat.com, huawei.libin@huawei.com, guohanjun@huawei.com, will@kernel.org, bhe@redhat.com, corbet@lwn.net, mingo@redhat.com, dyoung@redhat.com, John.P.donnelly@oracle.com, arnd@arndb.de, xiexiuqi@huawei.com, horms@verge.net.au, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robh+dt@kernel.org, james.morse@arm.com, prabhakar.pkin@gmail.com, nsaenzjulienne@suse.de On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 09:08:56PM +0800, Chen Zhou wrote: > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst > index 2da65fef2a1c..4b58f97351d5 100644 > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst > @@ -299,7 +299,15 @@ Boot into System Kernel > "crashkernel=64M@16M" tells the system kernel to reserve 64 MB of memory > starting at physical address 0x01000000 (16MB) for the dump-capture kernel. > > - On x86 and x86_64, use "crashkernel=64M@16M". > + On x86 use "crashkernel=64M@16M". > + > + On x86_64, use "crashkernel=X" to select a region under 4G first, and > + fall back to reserve region above 4G. > + We can also use "crashkernel=X,high" to select a region above 4G, which > + also tries to allocate at least 256M below 4G automatically and > + "crashkernel=Y,low" can be used to allocate specified size low memory. > + Use "crashkernel=Y@X" if you really have to reserve memory from specified > + start address X. > > On ppc64, use "crashkernel=128M@32M". > > @@ -316,8 +324,15 @@ Boot into System Kernel > kernel will automatically locate the crash kernel image within the > first 512MB of RAM if X is not given. > > - On arm64, use "crashkernel=Y[@X]". Note that the start address of > - the kernel, X if explicitly specified, must be aligned to 2MiB (0x200000). > + On arm64, use "crashkernel=X" to try low allocation in ZONE_DMA, and > + fall back to high allocation if it fails. And go for high allocation > + directly if the required size is too large. If crash_base is outside I wouldn't mention crash_base in the admin guide. That's an implementation detail really and admins are not supposed to read the source code to make sense of the documentation. ZONE_DMA is also a kernel internal, so you'd need to define what it is for arm64. At least the DMA and DMA32 zones are printed during kernel boot. > + ZONE_DMA, try to allocate at least 256M in ZONE_DMA automatically. > + "crashkernel=Y,low" can be used to allocate specified size low memory. > + For non-RPi4 platforms, change ZONE_DMA memtioned above to ZONE_DMA32. > + Use "crashkernel=Y@X" if you really have to reserve memory from > + specified start address X. Note that the start address of the kernel, > + X if explicitly specified, must be aligned to 2MiB (0x200000). -- Catalin _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec