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SubjectRe: [PATCH v13 1/8] x86: kdump: replace the hard-coded alignment with macro CRASH_ALIGN
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Hi Baoquan,


On 2020/11/11 9:38, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 10/31/20 at 03:44pm, Chen Zhou wrote:
>> Move CRASH_ALIGN to header asm/kexec.h and replace the hard-coded
>> alignment with macro CRASH_ALIGN in function reserve_crashkernel().
> Seems you tell what you have done in this patch, but don't like adding
> several more words to tell why it's done like that. Please see below
> inline comments.
>
> In other patches, I can also see this similar problem.
Thanks for your review. I will update relevant commit messages.
>
>> Suggested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10@huawei.com>
>> Tested-by: John Donnelly <John.p.donnelly@oracle.com>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h | 3 +++
>> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 5 +----
>> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
>> index 6802c59e8252..8cf9d3fd31c7 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
>> @@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
>>
>> # define KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_MAX_SIZE 2048
>>
>> +/* 2M alignment for crash kernel regions */
>> +#define CRASH_ALIGN SZ_16M
>> +
>> #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
>>
>> #include <linux/string.h>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>> index 84f581c91db4..bf373422dc8a 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>> @@ -395,9 +395,6 @@ static void __init memblock_x86_reserve_range_setup_data(void)
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
>>
>> -/* 16M alignment for crash kernel regions */
>> -#define CRASH_ALIGN SZ_16M
>> -
>> /*
>> * Keep the crash kernel below this limit.
>> *
>> @@ -515,7 +512,7 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
>> } else {
>> unsigned long long start;
>>
>> - start = memblock_phys_alloc_range(crash_size, SZ_1M, crash_base,
>> + start = memblock_phys_alloc_range(crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN, crash_base,
>> crash_base + crash_size);
> Here, SZ_1M is replaced with CRASH_ALIGN which is 16M. I remember I ever
> commented that this had better be told in patch log.
got it.

Thanks,
Chen Zhou
>
>> if (start != crash_base) {
>> pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - memory is in use.\n");
>> --
>> 2.20.1
>>
>>
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