linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 0/9] support reserving crashkernel above 4G on arm64 kdump

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20201005170937.GA14576@gaia>
Date:   Mon, 5 Oct 2020 18:09:38 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly@...cle.com>
Cc:     Chen Zhou <chenzhou10@...wei.com>, will@...nel.org,
        james.morse@....com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
        dyoung@...hat.com, bhe@...hat.com, corbet@....net,
        prabhakar.pkin@...il.com, bhsharma@...hat.com, horms@...ge.net.au,
        robh+dt@...nel.org, arnd@...db.de, nsaenzjulienne@...e.de,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        guohanjun@...wei.com, xiexiuqi@...wei.com, huawei.libin@...wei.com,
        wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 0/9] support reserving crashkernel above 4G on arm64
 kdump

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 06:44:29AM -0500, John Donnelly wrote:
> On 9/7/20 8:47 AM, Chen Zhou wrote:
> > Chen Zhou (9):
> >    x86: kdump: move CRASH_ALIGN to 2M
> >    x86: kdump: make the lower bound of crash kernel reservation
> >      consistent
> >    x86: kdump: use macro CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX in functions
> >      reserve_crashkernel[_low]()
> >    x86: kdump: move reserve_crashkernel[_low]() into crash_core.c
> >    arm64: kdump: introduce some macroes for crash kernel reservation
> >    arm64: kdump: reimplement crashkernel=X
> >    kdump: add threshold for the required memory
> >    arm64: kdump: add memory for devices by DT property
> >      linux,usable-memory-range
> >    kdump: update Documentation about crashkernel
[...]
> I did a brief unit-test on 5.9-rc4.
> 
> Please add:
> 
> Tested-by:  John Donnelly <John.p.donnelly@...cle.com>

Thanks for testing.

> This activity is over a year old. It needs accepted.

It's getting there, hopefully in 5.11. There are some minor tweaks to
address.

-- 
Catalin