* crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found on a cortina/gemini SoC @ 2021-04-07 12:54 Corentin Labbe 2021-04-07 14:13 ` Bruce Mitchell 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Corentin Labbe @ 2021-04-07 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ebiederm, kexec; +Cc: linux-kernel Hello I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC. On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M). But now, kernel fail to reserve memory: Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032 Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021 CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502 Memory policy: Data cache writeback Zone ranges: Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] HighMem empty Movable zone start for each node Early memory node ranges node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found. Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512 Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear) Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem) SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 What can I do ? Thanks Regards ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found on a cortina/gemini SoC 2021-04-07 12:54 crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found on a cortina/gemini SoC Corentin Labbe @ 2021-04-07 14:13 ` Bruce Mitchell 2021-04-07 14:23 ` Corentin Labbe 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Bruce Mitchell @ 2021-04-07 14:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Corentin Labbe, ebiederm, kexec; +Cc: linux-kernel On 4/7/2021 05:54, Corentin Labbe wrote: > Hello > > I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC. > On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M). > But now, kernel fail to reserve memory: > Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032 > Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 > Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021 > CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f > CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache > OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502 > Memory policy: Data cache writeback > Zone ranges: > Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > HighMem empty > Movable zone start for each node > Early memory node ranges > node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found. > Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512 > Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M > Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear) > Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) > mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off > Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem) > SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 > > What can I do ? > > Thanks > Regards > > _______________________________________________ > kexec mailing list > kexec@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec > Hello Corentin, I see much larger crashkernel=xxM being shown here https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst and from many of my other searches. Here is an interesting article on kdump for ARM-32 https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/setting-up-kdump-and-crash-for-arm-32-an-ongoing-saga/ Here is the kernel command line reference https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?h=v5.11#n732 I feel your frustrations too. -- Bruce ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found on a cortina/gemini SoC 2021-04-07 14:13 ` Bruce Mitchell @ 2021-04-07 14:23 ` Corentin Labbe 2021-04-07 14:28 ` Bruce Mitchell 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Corentin Labbe @ 2021-04-07 14:23 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Bruce Mitchell; +Cc: ebiederm, kexec, linux-kernel Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:13:04AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit : > On 4/7/2021 05:54, Corentin Labbe wrote: > > Hello > > > > I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC. > > On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M). > > But now, kernel fail to reserve memory: > > Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032 > > Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 > > Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021 > > CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f > > CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache > > OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502 > > Memory policy: Data cache writeback > > Zone ranges: > > Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > > HighMem empty > > Movable zone start for each node > > Early memory node ranges > > node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > > Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > > crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found. > > Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512 > > Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M > > Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear) > > Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) > > mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off > > Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem) > > SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 > > > > What can I do ? > > > > Thanks > > Regards > > > > _______________________________________________ > > kexec mailing list > > kexec@lists.infradead.org > > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec > > > > Hello Corentin, > > I see much larger crashkernel=xxM being shown here > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst > and from many of my other searches. > > Here is an interesting article on kdump for ARM-32 > https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/setting-up-kdump-and-crash-for-arm-32-an-ongoing-saga/ > > > Here is the kernel command line reference > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?h=v5.11#n732 > > I feel your frustrations too. Hello Thanks but I have already read those documentation. I search to know why the kernel cannot find 8M of memory ouf of 128. Regards ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found on a cortina/gemini SoC 2021-04-07 14:23 ` Corentin Labbe @ 2021-04-07 14:28 ` Bruce Mitchell 2021-04-07 14:48 ` Corentin Labbe 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Bruce Mitchell @ 2021-04-07 14:28 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Corentin Labbe; +Cc: ebiederm, kexec, linux-kernel On 4/7/2021 07:23, Corentin Labbe wrote: > Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:13:04AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit : >> On 4/7/2021 05:54, Corentin Labbe wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC. >>> On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M). >>> But now, kernel fail to reserve memory: >>> Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032 >>> Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 >>> Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021 >>> CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f >>> CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache >>> OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502 >>> Memory policy: Data cache writeback >>> Zone ranges: >>> Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] >>> HighMem empty >>> Movable zone start for each node >>> Early memory node ranges >>> node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] >>> Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] >>> crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found. >>> Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512 >>> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M >>> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear) >>> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) >>> mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off >>> Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem) >>> SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 >>> >>> What can I do ? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Regards >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> kexec mailing list >>> kexec@lists.infradead.org >>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec >>> >> >> Hello Corentin, >> >> I see much larger crashkernel=xxM being shown here >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst >> and from many of my other searches. >> >> Here is an interesting article on kdump for ARM-32 >> https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/setting-up-kdump-and-crash-for-arm-32-an-ongoing-saga/ >> >> >> Here is the kernel command line reference >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?h=v5.11#n732 >> >> I feel your frustrations too. > > Hello > > Thanks but I have already read those documentation. > I search to know why the kernel cannot find 8M of memory ouf of 128. > > Regards > How much more memory does the kernel and initrd above and beyond just their physical size? (heaps, stacks, buffers, virtual filesystems) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found on a cortina/gemini SoC 2021-04-07 14:28 ` Bruce Mitchell @ 2021-04-07 14:48 ` Corentin Labbe 2021-04-07 14:59 ` Bruce Mitchell 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Corentin Labbe @ 2021-04-07 14:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Bruce Mitchell; +Cc: ebiederm, kexec, linux-kernel Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:28:26AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit : > On 4/7/2021 07:23, Corentin Labbe wrote: > > Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:13:04AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit : > >> On 4/7/2021 05:54, Corentin Labbe wrote: > >>> Hello > >>> > >>> I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC. > >>> On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M). > >>> But now, kernel fail to reserve memory: > >>> Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032 > >>> Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 > >>> Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021 > >>> CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f > >>> CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache > >>> OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502 > >>> Memory policy: Data cache writeback > >>> Zone ranges: > >>> Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > >>> HighMem empty > >>> Movable zone start for each node > >>> Early memory node ranges > >>> node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > >>> Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > >>> crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found. > >>> Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512 > >>> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M > >>> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear) > >>> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) > >>> mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off > >>> Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem) > >>> SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 > >>> > >>> What can I do ? > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> Regards > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> kexec mailing list > >>> kexec@lists.infradead.org > >>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec > >>> > >> > >> Hello Corentin, > >> > >> I see much larger crashkernel=xxM being shown here > >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst > >> and from many of my other searches. > >> > >> Here is an interesting article on kdump for ARM-32 > >> https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/setting-up-kdump-and-crash-for-arm-32-an-ongoing-saga/ > >> > >> > >> Here is the kernel command line reference > >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?h=v5.11#n732 > >> > >> I feel your frustrations too. > > > > Hello > > > > Thanks but I have already read those documentation. > > I search to know why the kernel cannot find 8M of memory ouf of 128. > > > > Regards > > > > How much more memory does the kernel and initrd above and beyond just > their physical size? (heaps, stacks, buffers, virtual filesystems) The kernel size include a rootfs.cpio.lzma of 3MB and dtb is appended. The total kernel size is 7MB. The uncompressed size of the kernel is 13M (size of vmlinux) The uncompressed size of rootfs is 11M. cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 122496 kB MemFree: 103700 kB MemAvailable: 101936 kB Buffers: 0 kB Cached: 10904 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 4304 kB Inactive: 8012 kB Active(anon): 4304 kB Inactive(anon): 8012 kB Active(file): 0 kB Inactive(file): 0 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 122496 kB LowFree: 103700 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 1428 kB Mapped: 3552 kB Shmem: 10904 kB KReclaimable: 608 kB Slab: 2960 kB SReclaimable: 608 kB SUnreclaim: 2352 kB KernelStack: 312 kB PageTables: 136 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 61248 kB Committed_AS: 14336 kB VmallocTotal: 901120 kB VmallocUsed: 64 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB Percpu: 32 kB CmaTotal: 0 kB CmaFree: 0 kB ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found on a cortina/gemini SoC 2021-04-07 14:48 ` Corentin Labbe @ 2021-04-07 14:59 ` Bruce Mitchell 2021-04-09 14:53 ` Corentin Labbe 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Bruce Mitchell @ 2021-04-07 14:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Corentin Labbe; +Cc: ebiederm, kexec, linux-kernel On 4/7/2021 07:48, Corentin Labbe wrote: > Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:28:26AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit : >> On 4/7/2021 07:23, Corentin Labbe wrote: >>> Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:13:04AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit : >>>> On 4/7/2021 05:54, Corentin Labbe wrote: >>>>> Hello >>>>> >>>>> I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC. >>>>> On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M). >>>>> But now, kernel fail to reserve memory: >>>>> Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032 >>>>> Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 >>>>> Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021 >>>>> CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f >>>>> CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache >>>>> OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502 >>>>> Memory policy: Data cache writeback >>>>> Zone ranges: >>>>> Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] >>>>> HighMem empty >>>>> Movable zone start for each node >>>>> Early memory node ranges >>>>> node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] >>>>> Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] >>>>> crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found. >>>>> Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512 >>>>> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M >>>>> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear) >>>>> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) >>>>> mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off >>>>> Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem) >>>>> SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 >>>>> >>>>> What can I do ? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> Regards >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> kexec mailing list >>>>> kexec@lists.infradead.org >>>>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec >>>>> >>>> >>>> Hello Corentin, >>>> >>>> I see much larger crashkernel=xxM being shown here >>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst >>>> and from many of my other searches. >>>> >>>> Here is an interesting article on kdump for ARM-32 >>>> https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/setting-up-kdump-and-crash-for-arm-32-an-ongoing-saga/ >>>> >>>> >>>> Here is the kernel command line reference >>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?h=v5.11#n732 >>>> >>>> I feel your frustrations too. >>> >>> Hello >>> >>> Thanks but I have already read those documentation. >>> I search to know why the kernel cannot find 8M of memory ouf of 128. >>> >>> Regards >>> >> >> How much more memory does the kernel and initrd above and beyond just >> their physical size? (heaps, stacks, buffers, virtual filesystems) > > The kernel size include a rootfs.cpio.lzma of 3MB and dtb is appended. > The total kernel size is 7MB. > The uncompressed size of the kernel is 13M (size of vmlinux) > The uncompressed size of rootfs is 11M. > > cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 122496 kB > MemFree: 103700 kB > MemAvailable: 101936 kB > Buffers: 0 kB > Cached: 10904 kB > SwapCached: 0 kB > Active: 4304 kB > Inactive: 8012 kB > Active(anon): 4304 kB > Inactive(anon): 8012 kB > Active(file): 0 kB > Inactive(file): 0 kB > Unevictable: 0 kB > Mlocked: 0 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 122496 kB > LowFree: 103700 kB > SwapTotal: 0 kB > SwapFree: 0 kB > Dirty: 0 kB > Writeback: 0 kB > AnonPages: 1428 kB > Mapped: 3552 kB > Shmem: 10904 kB > KReclaimable: 608 kB > Slab: 2960 kB > SReclaimable: 608 kB > SUnreclaim: 2352 kB > KernelStack: 312 kB > PageTables: 136 kB > NFS_Unstable: 0 kB > Bounce: 0 kB > WritebackTmp: 0 kB > CommitLimit: 61248 kB > Committed_AS: 14336 kB > VmallocTotal: 901120 kB > VmallocUsed: 64 kB > VmallocChunk: 0 kB > Percpu: 32 kB > CmaTotal: 0 kB > CmaFree: 0 kB > I believe you need space for all of that, the smallest that would work for me was 20MB. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found on a cortina/gemini SoC 2021-04-07 14:59 ` Bruce Mitchell @ 2021-04-09 14:53 ` Corentin Labbe 2021-04-09 15:06 ` Corentin Labbe 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Corentin Labbe @ 2021-04-09 14:53 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Bruce Mitchell; +Cc: ebiederm, kexec, linux-kernel Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:59:27AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit : > On 4/7/2021 07:48, Corentin Labbe wrote: > > Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:28:26AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit : > >> On 4/7/2021 07:23, Corentin Labbe wrote: > >>> Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:13:04AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit : > >>>> On 4/7/2021 05:54, Corentin Labbe wrote: > >>>>> Hello > >>>>> > >>>>> I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC. > >>>>> On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M). > >>>>> But now, kernel fail to reserve memory: > >>>>> Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032 > >>>>> Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 > >>>>> Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021 > >>>>> CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f > >>>>> CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache > >>>>> OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502 > >>>>> Memory policy: Data cache writeback > >>>>> Zone ranges: > >>>>> Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > >>>>> HighMem empty > >>>>> Movable zone start for each node > >>>>> Early memory node ranges > >>>>> node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > >>>>> Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > >>>>> crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found. > >>>>> Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512 > >>>>> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M > >>>>> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear) > >>>>> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) > >>>>> mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off > >>>>> Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem) > >>>>> SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 > >>>>> > >>>>> What can I do ? > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks > >>>>> Regards > >>>>> > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> kexec mailing list > >>>>> kexec@lists.infradead.org > >>>>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Hello Corentin, > >>>> > >>>> I see much larger crashkernel=xxM being shown here > >>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst > >>>> and from many of my other searches. > >>>> > >>>> Here is an interesting article on kdump for ARM-32 > >>>> https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/setting-up-kdump-and-crash-for-arm-32-an-ongoing-saga/ > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Here is the kernel command line reference > >>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?h=v5.11#n732 > >>>> > >>>> I feel your frustrations too. > >>> > >>> Hello > >>> > >>> Thanks but I have already read those documentation. > >>> I search to know why the kernel cannot find 8M of memory ouf of 128. > >>> > >>> Regards > >>> > >> > >> How much more memory does the kernel and initrd above and beyond just > >> their physical size? (heaps, stacks, buffers, virtual filesystems) > > > > The kernel size include a rootfs.cpio.lzma of 3MB and dtb is appended. > > The total kernel size is 7MB. > > The uncompressed size of the kernel is 13M (size of vmlinux) > > The uncompressed size of rootfs is 11M. > > > > cat /proc/meminfo > > MemTotal: 122496 kB > > MemFree: 103700 kB > > MemAvailable: 101936 kB > > Buffers: 0 kB > > Cached: 10904 kB > > SwapCached: 0 kB > > Active: 4304 kB > > Inactive: 8012 kB > > Active(anon): 4304 kB > > Inactive(anon): 8012 kB > > Active(file): 0 kB > > Inactive(file): 0 kB > > Unevictable: 0 kB > > Mlocked: 0 kB > > HighTotal: 0 kB > > HighFree: 0 kB > > LowTotal: 122496 kB > > LowFree: 103700 kB > > SwapTotal: 0 kB > > SwapFree: 0 kB > > Dirty: 0 kB > > Writeback: 0 kB > > AnonPages: 1428 kB > > Mapped: 3552 kB > > Shmem: 10904 kB > > KReclaimable: 608 kB > > Slab: 2960 kB > > SReclaimable: 608 kB > > SUnreclaim: 2352 kB > > KernelStack: 312 kB > > PageTables: 136 kB > > NFS_Unstable: 0 kB > > Bounce: 0 kB > > WritebackTmp: 0 kB > > CommitLimit: 61248 kB > > Committed_AS: 14336 kB > > VmallocTotal: 901120 kB > > VmallocUsed: 64 kB > > VmallocChunk: 0 kB > > Percpu: 32 kB > > CmaTotal: 0 kB > > CmaFree: 0 kB > > > > I believe you need space for all of that, > the smallest that would work for me was 20MB. I tried without any change. Anyway when trying to kexec I got: kexec --no-ifdown --command-line="console=ttyS0,19200n8" /tmp/kernel | Could not find a free area of memory of 0x668a8a bytes... Cannot load /tmp/kernel So reserving 8M is enough according to what kexec said. So anyone know why the kernel cannot reserve 8M ? Thanks ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found on a cortina/gemini SoC 2021-04-09 14:53 ` Corentin Labbe @ 2021-04-09 15:06 ` Corentin Labbe 0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Corentin Labbe @ 2021-04-09 15:06 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Bruce Mitchell; +Cc: ebiederm, kexec, linux-kernel Le Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 04:53:13PM +0200, Corentin Labbe a écrit : > Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:59:27AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit : > > On 4/7/2021 07:48, Corentin Labbe wrote: > > > Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:28:26AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit : > > >> On 4/7/2021 07:23, Corentin Labbe wrote: > > >>> Le Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:13:04AM -0700, Bruce Mitchell a écrit : > > >>>> On 4/7/2021 05:54, Corentin Labbe wrote: > > >>>>> Hello > > >>>>> > > >>>>> I try to do kexec on a cortina/gemini SoC. > > >>>>> On a "normal" boot, kexec fail to find memory so I added crashkernel=8M to cmdline. (kernel size is ~6M). > > >>>>> But now, kernel fail to reserve memory: > > >>>>> Load Kern image from 0x30020000 to 0x800000 size 7340032 > > >>>>> Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 > > >>>>> Linux version 5.12.0-rc5-next-20210401+ (compile@Red) (armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r2 p4) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0) #98 PREEMPT Wed Apr 7 14:14:08 CEST 2021 > > >>>>> CPU: FA526 [66015261] revision 1 (ARMv4), cr=0000397f > > >>>>> CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache > > >>>>> OF: fdt: Machine model: Edimax NS-2502 > > >>>>> Memory policy: Data cache writeback > > >>>>> Zone ranges: > > >>>>> Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > > >>>>> HighMem empty > > >>>>> Movable zone start for each node > > >>>>> Early memory node ranges > > >>>>> node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > > >>>>> Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff] > > >>>>> crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found. > > >>>>> Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512 > > >>>>> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,19200n8 ip=dhcp crashkernel=8M > > >>>>> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear) > > >>>>> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) > > >>>>> mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off > > >>>>> Memory: 119476K/131072K available (5034K kernel code, 579K rwdata, 1372K rodata, 3020K init, 210K bss, 11596K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem) > > >>>>> SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 > > >>>>> > > >>>>> What can I do ? > > >>>>> > > >>>>> Thanks > > >>>>> Regards > > >>>>> > > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > > >>>>> kexec mailing list > > >>>>> kexec@lists.infradead.org > > >>>>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec > > >>>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> Hello Corentin, > > >>>> > > >>>> I see much larger crashkernel=xxM being shown here > > >>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst > > >>>> and from many of my other searches. > > >>>> > > >>>> Here is an interesting article on kdump for ARM-32 > > >>>> https://kaiwantech.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/setting-up-kdump-and-crash-for-arm-32-an-ongoing-saga/ > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> Here is the kernel command line reference > > >>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?h=v5.11#n732 > > >>>> > > >>>> I feel your frustrations too. > > >>> > > >>> Hello > > >>> > > >>> Thanks but I have already read those documentation. > > >>> I search to know why the kernel cannot find 8M of memory ouf of 128. > > >>> > > >>> Regards > > >>> > > >> > > >> How much more memory does the kernel and initrd above and beyond just > > >> their physical size? (heaps, stacks, buffers, virtual filesystems) > > > > > > The kernel size include a rootfs.cpio.lzma of 3MB and dtb is appended. > > > The total kernel size is 7MB. > > > The uncompressed size of the kernel is 13M (size of vmlinux) > > > The uncompressed size of rootfs is 11M. > > > > > > cat /proc/meminfo > > > MemTotal: 122496 kB > > > MemFree: 103700 kB > > > MemAvailable: 101936 kB > > > Buffers: 0 kB > > > Cached: 10904 kB > > > SwapCached: 0 kB > > > Active: 4304 kB > > > Inactive: 8012 kB > > > Active(anon): 4304 kB > > > Inactive(anon): 8012 kB > > > Active(file): 0 kB > > > Inactive(file): 0 kB > > > Unevictable: 0 kB > > > Mlocked: 0 kB > > > HighTotal: 0 kB > > > HighFree: 0 kB > > > LowTotal: 122496 kB > > > LowFree: 103700 kB > > > SwapTotal: 0 kB > > > SwapFree: 0 kB > > > Dirty: 0 kB > > > Writeback: 0 kB > > > AnonPages: 1428 kB > > > Mapped: 3552 kB > > > Shmem: 10904 kB > > > KReclaimable: 608 kB > > > Slab: 2960 kB > > > SReclaimable: 608 kB > > > SUnreclaim: 2352 kB > > > KernelStack: 312 kB > > > PageTables: 136 kB > > > NFS_Unstable: 0 kB > > > Bounce: 0 kB > > > WritebackTmp: 0 kB > > > CommitLimit: 61248 kB > > > Committed_AS: 14336 kB > > > VmallocTotal: 901120 kB > > > VmallocUsed: 64 kB > > > VmallocChunk: 0 kB > > > Percpu: 32 kB > > > CmaTotal: 0 kB > > > CmaFree: 0 kB > > > > > > > I believe you need space for all of that, > > the smallest that would work for me was 20MB. > > I tried without any change. > > Anyway when trying to kexec I got: > kexec --no-ifdown --command-line="console=ttyS0,19200n8" /tmp/kernel | > Could not find a free area of memory of 0x668a8a bytes... > Cannot load /tmp/kernel > > So reserving 8M is enough according to what kexec said. > > So anyone know why the kernel cannot reserve 8M ? > Thanks It seems to be related to: arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:977 "The crash region must be aligned to 128MB to avoid" Hacking CRASH_ALIGN to 64 permit Linux to reserve 8M at boot. But kexec still fail after with the same reason. (Could not find a free area of memory of 0x668a8a bytes) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
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