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Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 11:23:58 +0800 From: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10@...wei.com> To: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@...hat.com>, <catalin.marinas@....com>, <will.deacon@....com>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>, <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>, <tglx@...utronix.de>, <mingo@...hat.com>, <bp@...en8.de>, <ebiederm@...ssion.com> CC: <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>, <horms@...ge.net.au>, <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, Bhupesh SHARMA <bhupesh.linux@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] kdump: update Documentation about crashkernel on arm64 On 2019/5/15 13:16, Bhupesh Sharma wrote: > On 05/07/2019 09:20 AM, Chen Zhou wrote: >> Now we support crashkernel=X,[high,low] on arm64, update the >> Documentation. >> >> Signed-off-by: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10@...wei.com> >> --- >> Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 +++--- >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt >> index 268b10a..03a08aa 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt >> @@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ >> memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel >> image. If '@...set' is omitted, then a suitable offset >> is selected automatically. >> - [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and >> + [KNL, x86_64, arm64] select a region under 4G first, and >> fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@...set' >> hasn't been specified. >> See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details. >> @@ -718,14 +718,14 @@ >> Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example. >> crashkernel=size[KMG],high >> - [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel >> + [KNL, x86_64, arm64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel >> to allocate physical memory region from top, so could >> be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. >> Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if >> available. >> It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. >> crashkernel=size[KMG],low >> - [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high >> + [KNL, x86_64, arm64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high >> is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region >> above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system >> that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb >> > > IMO, it is a good time to update 'Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt' with this patchset itself for both x86_64 and arm64, where we still specify only the old format for 'crashkernel' boot-argument: > > Section: Boot into System Kernel > ======================= > > On arm64, use "crashkernel=Y[@X]". Note that the start address of > the kernel, X if explicitly specified, must be aligned to 2MiB (0x200000). > ... > > We can update this to add the new crashkernel=size[KMG],low or crashkernel=size[KMG],high format as well. > > Thanks, > Bhupesh > > . Sure, we can also update here. Thanks, Chen Zhou
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