Re: [PATCH v17 02/10] x86: kdump: make the lower bound of crash kernel reservation consistent

Baoquan He
2021-12-15T03:42:39Z

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 <chenzhou10@huawei.com>
> > >
> > > 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.

>
> Anyway, I agree the commit log should describe this.

Yes, totally.