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SubjectRe: [PATCHv7] x86/kdump: bugfix, make the behavior of crashkernel=X consistent with kaslr
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 4:48 AM Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/06/19 at 08:08pm, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 02/05/19 at 09:15am, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 03:30:16PM -0700, Jerry Hoemann wrote:
> > > > Is your objection only to the second fallback of allocating
> > > > memory above >= 4GB? Or are you objecting to allocating from
> > > > (896 .. 4GB) as well?
> > >
> > > My problem is why should the user need to specify high or low allocation
> > > explicitly when we can handle all that in the kernel automatically.
> > >
> > > The presence of crashkernel= on the cmdline sure means that the user
> > > wants to allocate memory for a second kernel.
> > >
> > > Now, if the requested allocation fails, we say:
> > >
> > > Error reserving crashkernel
> > >
> > > So, instead of saying that, we can *try* *again* and say
> > >
> > > Error reserving requested crashkernel at @..., attempting a high range.
> > >
> > > and run memblock_find_in_range() on the other regions which we deemed
> > > are ok to allocate from.
> > >
> > > Why aren't we doing that by default instead of placing all those
> > > different options in front of the user and expecting her/him to know
> > > something about all those magic ranges?
> >
> > As we talked in another reply, for the >4G allocation we can not avoid
> > the swiotlb issue, but if one request for 256M in high region and we
> > allocate the low part automatically, it will eat more memory eg. 512M.
> >
> > But probably in case allacation failed in low region ,high is a must for kdump
> > reservation, since no other choices perhaps we can make that as you said
>
> That is exactly what Pingfan is doing in this patch.
>
> Even we make it automatic in kernel, but we have to have some default
> value for swiotlb in case crashkernel can not find a free region under 4G.
> So this default value can not work for every use cases, people need
> manually use crashkernel=,low and crashkernel=,high in case
> crashkernel=X does not work. One can tune it for their use:
>
> 1) crashkernel=X reservation fails, likely the ,low default value is
> still too big, one can shrink the value and manually try other value
> 2) crashkernel=X reserve successfully on high memory and along with some
> default low memory region. But the low region is not enough. In this
> case one can increase the
>
> This should answer the question why ,high and ,low is still needed.
>
> But for above consumption 1), KASLR can still cause default ,low memory
> failed to reserve. So I wonder if KASLR can skip the 0-896M if the
> system memory is big enough.
>
A little fix about the comment. Refer to reserve_crashkernel_low(),
low_base = memblock_find_in_range(0, 1ULL << 32, low_size,
CRASH_ALIGN); So it should try 0~4G for ",low". And the default size
for low is 256M. Given the limited memory region reserved by other
component before crashkernel, we always can find a continuous chunk of
256M inside the fragmented [0,4G], which is split by initrd, KASLR.

Thanks,
Pingfan

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