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From: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86: crash kernel reserve with reserve_early
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:26:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86802c440911220226g21cc42bbmdc3ebe21d0f61943@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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[PATCH] x86: crash kernel reserve with reserve_early

use find_e820_area/reserve_early instead.
will get next good one automatically with alignment

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c |   60 ++++++++++--------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -488,42 +488,11 @@ static void __init reserve_early_setup_d
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
 
-/**
- * Reserve @size bytes of crashkernel memory at any suitable offset.
- *
- * @size: Size of the crashkernel memory to reserve.
- * Returns the base address on success, and -1ULL on failure.
- */
-static
-unsigned long long __init find_and_reserve_crashkernel(unsigned long long size)
-{
-	const unsigned long long alignment = 16<<20; 	/* 16M */
-	unsigned long long start = 0LL;
-
-	while (1) {
-		int ret;
-
-		start = find_e820_area(start, ULONG_MAX, size, alignment);
-		if (start == -1ULL)
-			return start;
-
-		/* try to reserve it */
-		ret = reserve_bootmem_generic(start, size, BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE);
-		if (ret >= 0)
-			return start;
-
-		start += alignment;
-	}
-}
-
 static inline unsigned long long get_total_mem(void)
 {
 	unsigned long long total;
 
-	total = max_low_pfn - min_low_pfn;
-#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
-	total += highend_pfn - highstart_pfn;
-#endif
+	total = max_pfn - min_low_pfn;
 
 	return total << PAGE_SHIFT;
 }
@@ -532,6 +501,8 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(v
 {
 	unsigned long long total_mem;
 	unsigned long long crash_size, crash_base;
+	const unsigned long long alignment = 16<<20;	/* 16M */
+	unsigned long long start;
 	int ret;
 
 	total_mem = get_total_mem();
@@ -543,21 +514,16 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(v
 
 	/* 0 means: find the address automatically */
 	if (crash_base <= 0) {
-		crash_base = find_and_reserve_crashkernel(crash_size);
-		if (crash_base == -1ULL) {
-			pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed. "
-				"No suitable area found.\n");
-			return;
-		}
+		start = alignment;
 	} else {
-		ret = reserve_bootmem_generic(crash_base, crash_size,
-					BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE);
-		if (ret < 0) {
-			pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - "
-				"memory is in use\n");
-			return;
-		}
+		start = crash_base;
+	}
+	crash_base = find_e820_area(start, ULONG_MAX, crash_size, alignment);
+	if (crash_base == -1ULL) {
+		pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
+		return;
 	}
+	reserve_early(crash_base, crash_base + crash_size, "CRASH KERNEL");
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "Reserving %ldMB of memory at %ldMB "
 			"for crashkernel (System RAM: %ldMB)\n",
@@ -935,6 +901,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 
 	reserve_initrd();
 
+	reserve_crashkernel();
+
 	vsmp_init();
 
 	io_delay_init();
@@ -965,8 +933,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 
 	initmem_init(0, max_pfn, acpi, k8);
 
-	reserve_crashkernel();
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 	/*
 	 * dma32_reserve_bootmem() allocates bootmem which may conflict

             reply	other threads:[~2009-11-22 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-22 10:26 Yinghai Lu [this message]
2009-11-22 12:56 ` [PATCH] x86: crash kernel reserve with reserve_early Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-23  1:18   ` Yinghai Lu

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