Re: [PATCH v11 3/5] arm64: kdump: reimplement crashkernel=X

[chenzhou <chenzhou10@huawei.com>]

On 2020/9/3 19:26, chenzhou wrote:
> Hi Catalin,
>
>
> On 2020/9/3 1:09, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 09:08:54PM +0800, Chen Zhou wrote:
>>> There are following issues in arm64 kdump:
>>> 1. We use crashkernel=X to reserve crashkernel below 4G, which
>>> will fail when there is no enough low memory.
>>> 2. If reserving crashkernel above 4G, in this case, crash dump
>>> kernel will boot failure because there is no low memory available
>>> for allocation.
>>> 3. Since commit 1a8e1cef7603 ("arm64: use both ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32"),
>>> if the memory reserved for crash dump kernel falled in ZONE_DMA32,
>>> the devices in crash dump kernel need to use ZONE_DMA will alloc
>>> fail.
>>>
>>> To solve these issues, change the behavior of crashkernel=X.
>>> crashkernel=X tries low allocation in ZONE_DMA, and fall back to
>>> high allocation if it fails.
>>>
>>> If requized size X is too large and leads to very little free memory
>>> in ZONE_DMA after low allocation, the system may not work normally.
>>> So add a threshold and go for high allocation directly if the required
>>> size is too large. The value of threshold is set as the half of
>>> the low memory.
>>>
>>> If crash_base is outside ZONE_DMA, try to allocate at least 256M in
>>> ZONE_DMA automatically. "crashkernel=Y,low" can be used to allocate
>>> specified size low memory.
>> Except for the threshold to keep zone ZONE_DMA memory,
>> reserve_crashkernel() looks very close to the x86 version. Shall we try
>> to make this generic as well? In the first instance, you could avoid the
>> threshold check if it takes an explicit ",high" option.
> Ok, i will try to do this.
>
> I look into the function reserve_crashkernel() of x86 and found the start address is
> CRASH_ALIGN in function memblock_find_in_range(), which is different with arm64.
>
> I don't figure out why is CRASH_ALIGN in x86, is there any specific reason?
Besides, in function reserve_crashkernel_low() of x86, the start address is 0.

>
> Thanks,
> Chen Zhou
>
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