linux-kernel - Re: 3.9-rc1: crash kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer earlier and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer

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Date:	Thu, 7 Mar 2013 22:36:12 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kexec <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	WANG Chao <chaowang@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: 3.9-rc1: crash kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate
 SWIOTLB buffer earlier and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:03 PM, CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com> wrote:
>> CC'ing kexec ML. Also mentioned that 3.8 has no such issue.
>>
>> This message looks suspicious and out of range while 3.8 reservation
>> looks within the range.
>>
>> [    0.000000] Reserving 128MB of memory at 5216MB for crashkernel
>> (System RAM: 3977MB)
>>
>> Wondering if anything to do with memblock again...
>
> that is intended...
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "WANG Chao" <chaowang@...hat.com>
>>> To: "LKML" vger.kernel.org>
>>> Cc: "CAI Qian" <caiqian@...hat.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013 1:54:37 PM
>>> Subject: 3.9-rc1: crash kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer earlier and can't now provide you
>>> with the DMA bounce buffer
>>>
>>> Hi, All
>>>
>>> On 3.9-rc1, I load crash kernel with latest kexec-tools(up to
>>> 28d413a), but
>>> 2nd kernel panic at early time:
>>> [    2.948076] Kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB
>>> buffer earlier and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer
>>> [    2.959958] Pid: 53, comm: khubd Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1+ #1
>
> You need to add crashkernel_low=64M in first kernel.
>
> As your system does not support DMA remapping.

looks like your system DO have DMAR table, please enable dmar
remapping in your kernel config.

Yinghai
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