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* [PATCH] ARM: kexec: fix crashkernel= handling
@ 2016-03-29 10:10 Russell King
  2016-03-30  1:46 ` Dave Young
  2016-04-07 21:03 ` [PATCH v2] " Russell King
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Russell King @ 2016-03-29 10:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

When the kernel crashkernel parameter is specified with just a size, we
are supposed to allocate a region from RAM to store the crashkernel.
However, ARM merely reserves physical address zero with no checking
that there is even RAM there.

Fix this by lifting similar code from x86, importing it to ARM with
the ARM specific parameters added.

Update the kdump documentation to reflect this change.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
---
 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 13 +++----------
 arch/arm/kernel/setup.c       | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index bc4bd5a44b88..88ff63d5fde3 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -263,12 +263,6 @@ been removed from the machine.
     crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...][@offset]
     range=start-[end]
 
-Please note, on arm, the offset is required.
-    crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...]@offset
-    range=start-[end]
-
-    'start' is inclusive and 'end' is exclusive.
-
 For example:
 
     crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
@@ -307,10 +301,9 @@ Boot into System Kernel
    on the memory consumption of the kdump system. In general this is not
    dependent on the memory size of the production system.
 
-   On arm, use "crashkernel=Y at X". Note that the start address of the kernel
-   will be aligned to 128MiB (0x08000000), so if the start address is not then
-   any space below the alignment point may be overwritten by the dump-capture kernel,
-   which means it is possible that the vmcore is not that precise as expected.
+   On arm, the use of "crashkernel=Y at X" is no longer necessary; the
+   kernel will automatically locate the crash kernel image within the
+   first 512MB of RAM if X is not given.
 
 
 Load the Dump-capture Kernel
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
index 7d0cba6f1cc5..5d8511c425f0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -938,6 +938,13 @@ static int __init init_machine_late(void)
 late_initcall(init_machine_late);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+/*
+ * The crash region must be aligned to 128MB to avoid
+ * zImage relocating below the reserved region.
+ */
+#define CRASH_ALIGN	(128 << 20)
+#define CRASH_ADDR_MAX	(PHYS_OFFSET + (512 << 20))
+
 static inline unsigned long long get_total_mem(void)
 {
 	unsigned long total;
@@ -965,6 +972,25 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
 	if (ret)
 		return;
 
+	if (crash_base <= 0) {
+		crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN, CRASH_ADDR_MAX,
+						    crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN);
+		if (!crash_base) {
+			pr_err("crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
+			return;
+		}
+	} else {
+		unsigned long long start;
+
+		start = memblock_find_in_range(crash_base,
+					       crash_base + crash_size,
+					       crash_size, SECTION_SIZE);
+		if (start != crash_base) {
+			pr_err("crashkernel reservation failed - memory is in use.\n");
+			return;
+		}
+	}
+
 	ret = memblock_reserve(crash_base, crash_size);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		pr_warn("crashkernel reservation failed - memory is in use (0x%lx)\n",
-- 
2.1.0

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2016-03-30  1:46 ` Dave Young
2016-03-30 12:39   ` Pratyush Anand
2016-03-30 13:05     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-03-30 13:27       ` Vivek Goyal
2016-04-01 13:25         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-04-06  6:57           ` Dave Young
2016-04-07 21:03 ` [PATCH v2] " Russell King
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