From: takahiro.akashi@linaro.org (AKASHI Takahiro) To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: [PATCH v26 0/7] arm64: add kdump support Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:42:50 +0900 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20160921074249.GI30248@linaro.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <57E00CDC.70403@arm.com> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 05:05:48PM +0100, James Morse wrote: > On 16/09/16 21:17, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On 16 September 2016 at 17:04, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> wrote: > >> Mark, Ard, how does/will reserved-memory work on an APCI only system? > > > > It works by accident, at the moment. We used to ignore both > > /memreserve/s and the /reserved-memory node, but due to some unrelated > > refactoring, we ended up honouring the reserved-memory node when > > booting via UEFI > > Okay, so kdump probably shouldn't rely on this behaviour... > > For an acpi-only system, we could get reserve_crashkernel() to copy the uefi > memory map into the reserved region, changing the region types for existing > kernel memory to EfiReservedMemoryType (for example) and fixing up the reserved > region boundaries. > > This second memory map could then be added alongside the real one in the > DT/chosen, and used in preference the second time we go through uefi_init() in > the crash kernel. Do we need add this map as the second one? Why not replace "linux,uefi-mmap-start" in a new blob? > kexec-tools would still need to keep the '/reserved-memory' node for non-uefi > systems. Yeah, but if we go in our own way on UEFI/ACPI systems, we may want to go in a DT-specific way, like PPC does, on DT systems. (That is, "linux,usable-memory" in memory nodes.) Thanks, -Takahiro AKASHI > Doing this doesn't depend on userspace, and means the uefi memory map is still > the one and only true source of memory layout information. If fixing it like > this is valid I don't think it should block kdump. > > ... I will think about this some more before trying to put it together. > > > > Thanks, > > James
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From: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> To: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>, Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>, Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, "kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>, "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v26 0/7] arm64: add kdump support Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:42:50 +0900 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20160921074249.GI30248@linaro.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <57E00CDC.70403@arm.com> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 05:05:48PM +0100, James Morse wrote: > On 16/09/16 21:17, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On 16 September 2016 at 17:04, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> wrote: > >> Mark, Ard, how does/will reserved-memory work on an APCI only system? > > > > It works by accident, at the moment. We used to ignore both > > /memreserve/s and the /reserved-memory node, but due to some unrelated > > refactoring, we ended up honouring the reserved-memory node when > > booting via UEFI > > Okay, so kdump probably shouldn't rely on this behaviour... > > For an acpi-only system, we could get reserve_crashkernel() to copy the uefi > memory map into the reserved region, changing the region types for existing > kernel memory to EfiReservedMemoryType (for example) and fixing up the reserved > region boundaries. > > This second memory map could then be added alongside the real one in the > DT/chosen, and used in preference the second time we go through uefi_init() in > the crash kernel. Do we need add this map as the second one? Why not replace "linux,uefi-mmap-start" in a new blob? > kexec-tools would still need to keep the '/reserved-memory' node for non-uefi > systems. Yeah, but if we go in our own way on UEFI/ACPI systems, we may want to go in a DT-specific way, like PPC does, on DT systems. (That is, "linux,usable-memory" in memory nodes.) Thanks, -Takahiro AKASHI > Doing this doesn't depend on userspace, and means the uefi memory map is still > the one and only true source of memory layout information. If fixing it like > this is valid I don't think it should block kdump. > > ... I will think about this some more before trying to put it together. > > > > Thanks, > > James _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-21 7:42 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2016-09-07 4:29 [PATCH v26 0/7] arm64: add kdump support AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` [PATCH v26 1/7] arm64: kdump: reserve memory for crash dump kernel AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-22 10:23 ` Matthias Bruger 2016-09-22 10:23 ` Matthias Bruger 2016-09-23 8:37 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-23 8:37 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` [PATCH v26 2/7] arm64: kdump: implement machine_crash_shutdown() AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-14 18:09 ` James Morse 2016-09-14 18:09 ` James Morse 2016-09-15 8:13 ` Marc Zyngier 2016-09-15 8:13 ` Marc Zyngier 2016-09-16 3:21 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-16 3:21 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-16 14:49 ` James Morse 2016-09-16 14:49 ` James Morse 2016-09-20 7:36 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-20 7:36 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` [PATCH v26 3/7] arm64: kdump: add kdump support AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-16 14:50 ` James Morse 2016-09-16 14:50 ` James Morse 2016-09-20 7:46 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-20 7:46 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-22 15:50 ` Matthias Brugger 2016-09-22 15:50 ` Matthias Brugger 2016-09-07 4:29 ` [PATCH v26 4/7] arm64: kdump: add VMCOREINFO's for user-space coredump tools AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-16 16:04 ` James Morse 2016-09-16 16:04 ` James Morse 2016-09-07 4:29 ` [PATCH v26 5/7] arm64: kdump: enable kdump in the arm64 defconfig AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` [PATCH v26 6/7] arm64: kdump: update a kernel doc AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:29 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-16 16:08 ` James Morse 2016-09-16 16:08 ` James Morse 2016-09-20 8:27 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-20 8:27 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-26 17:21 ` Matthias Brugger 2016-09-26 17:21 ` Matthias Brugger [not found] ` <20160907042908.6232-1-takahiro.akashi-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> 2016-09-07 4:32 ` [PATCH v26 7/7] Documentation: dt: chosen properties for arm64 kdump AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:32 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:32 ` AKASHI Takahiro [not found] ` <20160907043203.6309-1-takahiro.akashi-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> 2016-09-16 13:03 ` Rob Herring 2016-09-16 13:03 ` Rob Herring 2016-09-16 13:03 ` Rob Herring 2016-09-07 4:37 ` [PATCH v26 0/7] arm64: add kdump support AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-07 4:37 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-16 16:04 ` James Morse 2016-09-16 16:04 ` James Morse 2016-09-16 20:17 ` Ard Biesheuvel 2016-09-16 20:17 ` Ard Biesheuvel 2016-09-19 16:05 ` James Morse 2016-09-19 16:05 ` James Morse 2016-09-19 16:10 ` Ard Biesheuvel 2016-09-19 16:10 ` Ard Biesheuvel 2016-09-21 7:42 ` AKASHI Takahiro [this message] 2016-09-21 7:42 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-21 7:33 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-09-21 7:33 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-03 7:54 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-03 7:54 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-03 11:04 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-03 11:04 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-03 12:41 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-03 12:41 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-04 2:56 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-04 2:56 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-04 9:46 ` James Morse 2016-10-04 9:46 ` James Morse 2016-10-04 10:05 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-04 10:05 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-04 10:53 ` James Morse 2016-10-04 10:53 ` James Morse 2016-10-04 13:23 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-04 13:23 ` Manish Jaggi 2016-10-05 5:48 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-05 5:48 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-05 5:41 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-05 5:41 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-04 10:18 ` Mark Rutland 2016-10-04 10:18 ` Mark Rutland 2016-10-17 15:41 ` Ruslan Bilovol 2016-10-17 15:41 ` Ruslan Bilovol 2016-10-18 6:26 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-10-18 6:26 ` AKASHI Takahiro 2016-11-01 12:19 ` Ruslan Bilovol 2016-11-01 12:19 ` Ruslan Bilovol
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