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SubjectRe: [Patch 8/8] kexec: allow to shrink reserved memory
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:31:23 +0800
Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi, thank you!
> > Can I have a question ?
> >
> > - How crash kernel's memory is preserved at boot ?
> >
>
> Use bootmem, I think.
>
I see.

In x86,

setup_arch()
-> reserve_crashkernel()
-> find_and_reserve_crashkernel()
-> reserve_bootmem_generic()

Then, all "active range" is already registered and there are memmap.


> > It's hidden from the system before mem_init() ?
> >
>
> Not sure, but probably yes. It is reserved in setup_arch() which is
> before mm_init() which calls mem_init().
>
> Do you have any advice to free that reserved memory after boot? :)
>

Let's see arch/x86/mm/init.c::free_initmem()

Maybe it's all you want.

- ClearPageReserved()
- init_page_count()
- free_page()
- totalram_pages++

But it has no argumetns. Maybe you need your own function or modification.
online_pages() does very similar. But, hmm,.. writing something open coded one
for crashkernel is not very bad, I think.

Thanks,
-Kame









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