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SubjectRe: [v2 1/5] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel
Hi Baoquan,

On 04/28/2015 06:19 PM, Baoquan He wrote:
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
>> +/*
>> + * reserve_elfcorehdr() - reserves memory for elf core header
>> + *
>> + * This function reserves memory area given in "elfcorehdr=" kernel command
>> + * line parameter. The memory reserved is used by a dump capture kernel to
>> + * identify the memory used by primary kernel.
>> + */
>
> Hi AKASHI,
>
> May I know why elfcorehdr need be reserved separately but not locate a
> memory region in crashkernel reserved region like all other ARCHs? Is
> there any special reason?

I don't get your point, but arm as well as arm64 locates elfcorehdr
in a crash kernel's memory region.
See kexec/arch/arm{,64}/crashdump-arm{,64}.c in kexec-tools.

And this region is reserved at boot time *on crash kernel* because we don't want
to corrupt it accidentally.
(After Mark's comment, we might better remove the mmu mapping for this region, too.)


Make sense?

-Takahiro AKASHI

> Thanks
> Baoquan
>
>> +static void __init reserve_elfcorehdr(void)
>> +{
>> + if (!elfcorehdr_size)
>> + return;
>> +
>> + if (memblock_is_region_reserved(elfcorehdr_addr, elfcorehdr_size)) {
>> + pr_warn("elfcorehdr reservation failed - memory is in use (0x%llx)\n",
>> + elfcorehdr_addr);
>> + return;
>> + }
>> +
>> + if (memblock_reserve(elfcorehdr_addr, elfcorehdr_size)) {
>> + pr_warn("elfcorehdr reservation failed - out of memory\n");
>> + return;
>> + }
>> +
>> + pr_info("Reserving %lldKB of memory at %lldMB for elfcorehdr\n",
>> + elfcorehdr_size >> 10, elfcorehdr_addr >> 20);
>> +}
>> +#endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */
>> /*
>> * Return the maximum physical address for ZONE_DMA (DMA_BIT_MASK(32)). It
>> * currently assumes that for memory starting above 4G, 32-bit devices will
>> @@ -170,6 +247,13 @@ void __init arm64_memblock_init(void)
>> memblock_reserve(__virt_to_phys(initrd_start), initrd_end - initrd_start);
>> #endif
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
>> + reserve_crashkernel(memory_limit);
>> +#endif
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
>> + reserve_elfcorehdr();
>> +#endif
>> +
>> early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem();
>>
>> /* 4GB maximum for 32-bit only capable devices */
>> --
>> 1.7.9.5
>>
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