From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754343AbbFEKaM (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2015 06:30:12 -0400 Received: from 8bytes.org ([81.169.241.247]:57040 "EHLO theia.8bytes.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751265AbbFEKaG (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2015 06:30:06 -0400 From: Joerg Roedel To: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Borislav Petkov Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Vivek Goyal , Dave Young , Baoquan He , x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, joro@8bytes.org, jroedel@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/3 v3] Fix kdump failures with crashkernel=high Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 12:29:59 +0200 Message-Id: <1433500202-25531-1-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org v2->v3 * Rebased to v4.1-rc6 * Updated changelogs as requested and added outcome of previous discussions * Added more Acked-bys v1->v2: * Updated comments based on feedback from Konrad * Added Acked-bys * Rebased to v3.19-rc3 Hi, here is a patch-set to fix failed kdump kernel boots when the systems was booted with crashkernel=X,high. On those systems the kernel allocates only 72MiB of low-memory for DMA buffers, which showed to be too low on some systems. The problem is that 64MiB of the low-memory is allocated by swiotlb, leaving 8MB for the page-allocator. But swiotlb tries to allocate DMA memory from the page-allocator first, which fails pretty fast in the boot sequence, causing warnings. This patch-set removes these warnings. But even the 64MiB for swiotlb are eaten up on some systems, so that the default of low-memory allocated for the crash-kernel is increase from 72MB to 256MB (only changing the defaults, can still be overwritten by crashkernel=X,low). This number comes from experiments on the affected systems, 128MiB low-memory was still not enough there, thus I set the value to 256MiB to fix the issues. Any feedback appreciated. Thanks, Joerg Joerg Roedel (3): swiotlb: Warn on allocation failure in swiotlb_alloc_coherent x86, swiotlb: Try coherent allocations with __GFP_NOWARN x86, crash: Allocate enough low-mem when crashkernel=high arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c | 7 +++++++ arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++++- lib/swiotlb.c | 11 +++++++++-- 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 1.9.1