linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel

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Date:	Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:56:57 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	WANG Chao <chaowang@...hat.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically

Current code does not set low range for crashkernel if the user
does not specify that.

That cause regressions on system that does not support intel_iommu
properly.

Chao said that his system does work well on 3.8 without extra parameter.
even iommu does not work with kdump.

Set crashkernel_low automatically if the user does not specify that.

For system that does support IOMMU with kdump properly, user could
specify crashkernel_low=0 to save that 72M low ram.

Reported-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@...hat.com>
Tested-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c |   15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -547,19 +547,28 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel_l
 	unsigned long long low_base = 0, low_size = 0;
 	unsigned long total_low_mem;
 	unsigned long long base;
+	bool auto_set = false;
 	int ret;
 
 	total_low_mem = memblock_mem_size(1UL<<(32-PAGE_SHIFT));
 	ret = parse_crashkernel_low(boot_command_line, total_low_mem,
 						&low_size, &base);
-	if (ret != 0 || low_size <= 0)
-		return;
+	if (ret != 0) {
+		/* default swiotlb size and overflow: 64M + 8M */
+		low_size = 72UL<<20;
+		auto_set = true;
+	} else {
+		/* passed with crashkernel_low=0 ? */
+		if (!low_size)
+			return;
+	}
 
 	low_base = memblock_find_in_range(low_size, (1ULL<<32),
 					low_size, alignment);
 
 	if (!low_base) {
-		pr_info("crashkernel low reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
+		if (!auto_set)
+			pr_info("crashkernel low reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
 
 		return;
 	}
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