From: David Gibson <dgibson@redhat.com>
To: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/kdump: handle crashkernel memory reservation failure
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 15:32:56 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180628153256.7848bd3a@umbus.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <153016319642.8584.7868984232962915832.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com>
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:49:56 +0530
Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> Memory reservation for crashkernel could fail if there are holes around
> kdump kernel offset (128M). Fail gracefully in such cases and print an
> error message.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: David Gibson <dgibson@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> index 936c7e2..6181442 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> @@ -188,7 +188,12 @@ void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
> (unsigned long)(crashk_res.start >> 20),
> (unsigned long)(memblock_phys_mem_size() >> 20));
>
> - memblock_reserve(crashk_res.start, crash_size);
> + if (!memblock_is_region_memory(crashk_res.start, crash_size) ||
> + memblock_reserve(crashk_res.start, crash_size)) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to reserve memory for crashkernel!\n");
> + crashk_res.start = crashk_res.end = 0;
> + return;
> + }
> }
>
> int overlaps_crashkernel(unsigned long start, unsigned long size)
>
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David Gibson <dgibson@redhat.com>
Principal Software Engineer, Virtualization, Red Hat
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-28 5:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-28 5:19 [PATCH] powerpc/kdump: handle crashkernel memory reservation failure Hari Bathini
2018-06-28 5:32 ` David Gibson [this message]
2018-06-28 6:48 ` Dave Young
2018-07-19 6:07 ` Michael Ellerman
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