From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([170.10.133.124]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1mxSHI-000Tsz-44 for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 11:16:57 +0000 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:16:43 +0800 From: Baoquan He Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 02/10] x86: kdump: make the lower bound of crash kernel reservation consistent Message-ID: <20211215111643.GF3023@MiWiFi-R3L-srv> References: <20211210065533.2023-1-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> <20211210065533.2023-3-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> <20211215034219.GB10336@MiWiFi-R3L-srv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: Catalin Marinas Cc: Borislav Petkov , Zhen Lei , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org, "H . Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Young , Vivek Goyal , Eric Biederman , kexec@lists.infradead.org, Will Deacon , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Rob Herring , Frank Rowand , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap , Feng Zhou , Kefeng Wang , Chen Zhou On 12/15/21 at 11:01am, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 11:42:19AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > > On 12/14/21 at 07:24pm, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 08:07:58PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 02:55:25PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote: > > > > > From: Chen Zhou > > > > > > > > > > The lower bounds of crash kernel reservation and crash kernel low > > > > > reservation are different, use the consistent value CRASH_ALIGN. > > > > > > > > A big WHY is missing here to explain why the lower bound of the > > > > allocation range needs to be 16M and why was 0 wrong? > > > > > > I asked the same here: > > > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210224143547.GB28965@arm.com > > > > > > IIRC Baoquan said that there is a 1MB reserved for x86 anyway in the > > > lower part, so that's equivalent in practice to starting from > > > CRASH_ALIGN. > > > > Yeah, even for i386, there's area reserved by BIOS inside low 1M. > > Considering the existing alignment CRASH_ALIGN which is 16M, we > > definitely have no chance to get memory starting from 0. So starting > > from 16M can skip the useless memblock searching, and make the > > crashkernel low reservation consisten with crashkernel reservation on > > allocation code. > > That's the x86 assumption. Is it valid for other architectures once the > code has been made generic in patch 6? It should be ok for arm64, RAM > tends to start from higher up but other architectures may start using > this common code. Good point. I didn't think of this from generic code side, then let's keep it as 0. > > If you want to keep the same semantics as before, just leave it as 0. > It's not that the additional lower bound makes the search slower. Agree. _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec