From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 11/11] kdump: update Documentation about crashkernel References: <20210130071025.65258-1-chenzhou10@huawei.com> <20210130071025.65258-12-chenzhou10@huawei.com> From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: <686c331c-8009-1203-e8fe-b1ae67ae9652@infradead.org> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 09:53:31 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210130071025.65258-12-chenzhou10@huawei.com> Content-Language: en-US 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 , mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, rppt@kernel.org, dyoung@redhat.com, bhe@redhat.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, nsaenzjulienne@suse.de, corbet@lwn.net, John.P.donnelly@oracle.com, bhsharma@redhat.com, prabhakar.pkin@gmail.com Cc: wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com, arnd@arndb.de, xiexiuqi@huawei.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robh+dt@kernel.org, horms@verge.net.au, james.morse@arm.com, huawei.libin@huawei.com, guohanjun@huawei.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Hi-- On 1/29/21 11:10 PM, Chen Zhou wrote: > --- > Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++--- > .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 ++++++++-- > 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > index a10b545c2070..908e5c8b61ba 100644 > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt All of the "arm64" instances in [square brackets] should be "ARM64". > @@ -738,6 +738,9 @@ > [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and > fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' > hasn't been specified. > + [KNL, arm64] Try low allocation in DMA zone and fall back here > + to high allocation if it fails when '@offset' hasn't been > + specified. > See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. > > crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] > @@ -754,6 +757,8 @@ > Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if > available. > It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. > + [KNL, arm64] range in high memory. here > + Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top. > crashkernel=size[KMG],low > [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high > is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region > @@ -762,13 +767,15 @@ > requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra > low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit > devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at > - at least 256M below 4G automatically. > + least 256M below 4G automatically. > This one let user to specify own low range under 4G > for second kernel instead. > 0: to disable low allocation. > It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used > or memory reserved is below 4G. > - > + [KNL, arm64] range in low memory. here > + This one let user to specify a low range in DMA zone for > + crash dump kernel. Thanks. -- ~Randy _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec