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Date:   Mon, 5 Oct 2020 18:20:58 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     chenzhou <chenzhou10@...wei.com>
Cc:     Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, will@...nel.org, james.morse@....com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, dyoung@...hat.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 3/9] x86: kdump: use macro CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX in
 functions reserve_crashkernel[_low]()

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 05:06:37PM +0800, chenzhou wrote:
> On 2020/9/18 16:59, chenzhou wrote:
> > On 2020/9/18 15:25, Baoquan He wrote:
> >> On 09/07/20 at 09:47pm, Chen Zhou wrote:
> >>> To make the functions reserve_crashkernel[_low]() as generic,
> >>> replace some hard-coded numbers with macro CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10@...wei.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 11 ++++++-----
> >>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> >>> index d7fd90c52dae..71a6a6e7ca5b 100644
> >>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> >>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> >>> @@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ static int __init reserve_crashkernel_low(void)
> >>>  	unsigned long total_low_mem;
> >>>  	int ret;
> >>>  
> >>> -	total_low_mem = memblock_mem_size(1UL << (32 - PAGE_SHIFT));
> >>> +	total_low_mem = memblock_mem_size(CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> >> Just note that the replacement has been done in another patch from Mike
> >> Rapoport, partially. He seems to have done reserve_crashkernel_low()
> >> part, there's one left in reserve_crashkernel(), you might want to check
> >> that. 
> >>
> >> Mike's patch which is from a patchset has been merged into Andrew's next
> >> tree.
> >>
> >> commit 6e50f7672ffa362e9bd4bc0c0d2524ed872828c5
> >> Author: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> >> Date:   Wed Aug 26 15:22:32 2020 +1000
> >>
> >>     x86/setup: simplify reserve_crashkernel()
> As Baoquan said, some functions have been changed in the next tree,
> if i need to rebase on top of the next tree.

Please rebase at 5.10-rc1 when the x86 change will probably be in and
aim to queue this series for 5.11.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin