Re: [PATCH -next v3 0/2] support allocating crashkernel above 4G explicitly on riscv

Simon Horman
2023-04-07T12:05:30Z

On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 06:02:04AM +0800, Chen Jiahao wrote:
> On riscv, the current crash kernel allocation logic is trying to
> allocate within 32bit addressible memory region by default, if
> failed, try to allocate without 4G restriction.
>
> In need of saving DMA zone memory while allocating a relatively large
> crash kernel region, allocating the reserved memory top down in
> high memory, without overlapping the DMA zone, is a mature solution.
> Hence this patchset introduces the parameter option crashkernel=X,[high,low].
>
> One can reserve the crash kernel from high memory above DMA zone range
> by explicitly passing "crashkernel=X,high"; or reserve a memory range
> below 4G with "crashkernel=X,low". Besides, there are few rules need
> to take notice:
> 1. "crashkernel=X,[high,low]" will be ignored if "crashkernel=size"
> is specified.
> 2. "crashkernel=X,low" is valid only when "crashkernel=X,high" is passed
> and there is enough memory to be allocated under 4G.
> 3. When allocating crashkernel above 4G and no "crashkernel=X,low" is
> specified, a 128M low memory will be allocated automatically for
> swiotlb bounce buffer.
> See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for more information.
>
> To verify loading the crashkernel, adapted kexec-tools is attached below:
> https://github.com/chenjh005/kexec-tools/tree/build-test-riscv-v2

Are you planning to submit the kexec-tools patches too?