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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: lijiang <lijiang@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, bhe@redhat.com,
	dyoung@redhat.com, jgross@suse.com, dhowells@redhat.com,
	Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com, ebiederm@xmission.com,
	vgoyal@redhat.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v4] x86/kdump: always reserve the low 1MiB when the crashkernel option is specified
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:43:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191023074316.GA16060@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0e657965-6f97-84ce-e51d-42d4978c4d88@redhat.com>

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 01:23:33PM +0800, lijiang wrote:
> Kdump kernel will reuse the first 640k region because the real mode
> trampoline has to work in this area. When the vmcore is dumped, the
> old memory in this area may be accessed, therefore, kernel has to
> copy the contents of the first 640k area to a backup region so that
> kdump kernel can read the old memory from the backup area of the
> first 640k area, which is done in the purgatory().

That sounds better. :)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-23  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-17  9:43 [PATCH 0/3 v4] x86/kdump: Fix 'kmem -s' reported an invalid freepointer when SME was active Lianbo Jiang
2019-10-17  9:43 ` [PATCH 1/3 v4] x86/kdump: always reserve the low 1MiB when the crashkernel option is specified Lianbo Jiang
2019-10-22  8:30   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-23  5:23     ` lijiang
2019-10-23  7:43       ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-10-23  5:35     ` lijiang
2019-10-23  7:46       ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-23  9:20         ` lijiang
2019-10-24  8:13       ` d.hatayama
2019-10-24  9:10         ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-24 11:24         ` lijiang
2019-10-24 22:12       ` [PATCH] x86/kdump: always reserve the low 1MiB when the crashkernel kbuild test robot
2019-10-24 23:55         ` lijiang
2019-10-17  9:43 ` [PATCH 2/3 v4] x86/kdump: remove the unused crash_copy_backup_region() Lianbo Jiang
2019-10-17  9:43 ` [PATCH 3/3 v4] x86/kdump: clean up all the code related to the backup region Lianbo Jiang
2019-10-22 12:15   ` Borislav Petkov
     [not found] <55902207.7797907.1571751831873.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>
2019-10-22 13:43 ` [PATCH 1/3 v4] x86/kdump: always reserve the low 1MiB when the crashkernel option is specified Dave Anderson

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