Re: The current SME implementation fails kexec/kdump kernel booting.

[Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>]

Hi Tom,

On 06/11/19 at 05:52pm, lijiang wrote:
> After applied Tom's patch, i changed the reserved memory(for crash kernel) to the
> above 256M(>256M), such as crashkernel=320M or 384M,512M..., the kdump kernel can
> work and successfully dump the vmcore.
> 
> But the kdump kernel always happened the panic or could not boot successfully in
> the 256M(<= 256M) case, and on HP machine, i noticed that it printed OOM, the kdump
> kernel was too smaller memory. But i never see the OOM on speedway machine(probably
> related to the earlyprintk, it doesn't work and it loses many logs).
> 
> After removing the option 'CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO' from .config, i tested again, the kdump
> kernel did not happen the panic in the 256M(crashkernel=256M), the kdump kernel can
> work and succeed to dump the vmcore on HP machine or speedway machine.
> 
> It seems that the small memory caused the previous failure in kdump kernel. I would
> suggest to post this patch to upstream. What's your opinion? Tom, Baoquan and other
> people. Or do you have any comment?

As Lianbo said at above, the previous failure in kdump kernel is caused
by OOM. Just the log on speedway is incomplete, I am not sure what
happened. Now after investigation, your patch works to fix the issue.
Could you post it for riviewing?

Thanks
Baoquan