linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] kernel/crash_core.c - Add crashkernel=auto for x86 and ARM

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Message-Id: <8F545EB3-9AA4-45AE-84D2-7C0B5CF43FF6@oracle.com>
Date:   Thu, 19 Nov 2020 12:52:10 -0800
From:   Saeed Mirzamohammadi <saeed.mirzamohammadi@...cle.com>
To:     Kairui Song <kasong@...hat.com>
Cc:     John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly@...cle.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] kernel/crash_core.c - Add crashkernel=auto for x86
 and ARM

Hi,
[I’m resending this email as it failed to be sent to certain emails.]

> And I think crashkernel=auto could be used as an indicator that user
> want the kernel to control the crashkernel size, so some further work
> could be done to adjust the crashkernel more accordingly. eg. when
> memory encryption is enabled, increase the crashkernel value for the
> auto estimation, as it's known to consume more crashkernel memory.
> 
Thanks for the suggestion! I tried to keep it simple and leave it to the user to change Kconfig in case a different range is needed. Based on experience, these ranges work well for most of the regular cases.

> 
> But why not make it arch-independent? This crashkernel=auto idea
> should simply work with every arch.

Thanks! I’ll be making it arch-independent in the v2 patch.

> 
> I think this rounding may be better moved to the arch specified part
> where parse_crashkernel is called?

Thanks for the suggestion. Could you please elaborate why do we need to do that?

Thanks,
Saeed