linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v14 07/11] arm64: kdump: introduce some macroes for crash kernel reservation

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Date:   Thu, 04 Feb 2021 17:27:39 +0100
From:   Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@...e.de>
To:     Chen Zhou <chenzhou10@...wei.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, rppt@...nel.org, dyoung@...hat.com,
        bhe@...hat.com, catalin.marinas@....com, will@...nel.org,
        corbet@....net, John.P.donnelly@...cle.com, bhsharma@...hat.com,
        prabhakar.pkin@...il.com
Cc:     horms@...ge.net.au, robh+dt@...nel.org, arnd@...db.de,
        james.morse@....com, xiexiuqi@...wei.com, guohanjun@...wei.com,
        huawei.libin@...wei.com, wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 07/11] arm64: kdump: introduce some macroes for
 crash kernel reservation

On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 17:20 +0100, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> Hi Chen,
> 
> On Sat, 2021-01-30 at 15:10 +0800, Chen Zhou wrote:
> > Introduce macro CRASH_ALIGN for alignment, macro CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX
> > for upper bound of low crash memory, macro CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX for
> > upper bound of high crash memory, use macroes instead.
> > 
> > Besides, keep consistent with x86, use CRASH_ALIGN as the lower bound
> > of crash kernel reservation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10@...wei.com>
> > Tested-by: John Donnelly <John.p.donnelly@...cle.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h | 6 ++++++
> >  arch/arm64/mm/init.c           | 6 +++---
> >  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
> > index d24b527e8c00..3f6ecae0bc68 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kexec.h
> > @@ -25,6 +25,12 @@
> >  
> > 
> >  #define KEXEC_ARCH KEXEC_ARCH_AARCH64
> >  
> > 
> > +/* 2M alignment for crash kernel regions */
> > +#define CRASH_ALIGN	SZ_2M
> > +
> > +#define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX	arm64_dma_phys_limit
> 
> I wonder if you could use 'ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT', instead of creating a new
> define.
> 
> > +#define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX	MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE
> > +
> >  #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
> >  
> > 
> >  /**
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> > index 709d98fea90c..912f64f505f7 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> > @@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
> >  
> > 
> >  	if (crash_base == 0) {
> >  		/* Current arm64 boot protocol requires 2MB alignment */
> > -		crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(0, arm64_dma_phys_limit,
> > -				crash_size, SZ_2M);
> > +		crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN, CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX,
> > +				crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN);
> 
> Actually we could get rid of CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX altogether if we used
> memblock_alloc_low() here (modulo the slight refactoring needed to accommodate
> it).

Forget about these coments, I now see that you're deleting this whole function
on the next patch and defaulting to a generic implementation. Sorry for the
noise.

Regards,
Nicolas


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