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From: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Feng Zhou <zhoufeng.zf@bytedance.com>,
	Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>,
	Chen Zhou <dingguo.cz@antgroup.com>,
	"John Donnelly" <John.p.donnelly@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v19 13/13] kdump: update Documentation about crashkernel
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 21:26:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211228132612.1860-14-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211228132612.1860-1-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>

From: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10@huawei.com>

For arm64, the behavior of crashkernel=X has been changed, which
tries low allocation in DMA zone and fall back to high allocation
if it fails.

We can also use "crashkernel=X,high" to select a high region above
DMA zone, which also tries to allocate at least 256M low memory in
DMA zone automatically and "crashkernel=Y,low" can be used to allocate
specified size low memory.

So update the Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst       | 11 +++++++++--
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
index cb30ca3df27c9b2..d4c287044be0c70 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
@@ -361,8 +361,15 @@ Boot into System Kernel
    kernel will automatically locate the crash kernel image within the
    first 512MB of RAM if X is not given.
 
-   On arm64, use "crashkernel=Y[@X]".  Note that the start address of
-   the kernel, X if explicitly specified, must be aligned to 2MiB (0x200000).
+   On arm64, use "crashkernel=X" to try low allocation in DMA zone and
+   fall back to high allocation if it fails.
+   We can also use "crashkernel=X,high" to select a high region above
+   DMA zone, which also tries to allocate at least 256M low memory in
+   DMA zone automatically.
+   "crashkernel=Y,low" can be used to allocate specified size low memory.
+   Use "crashkernel=Y@X" if you really have to reserve memory from
+   specified start address X. Note that the start address of the kernel,
+   X if explicitly specified, must be aligned to 2MiB (0x200000).
 
 Load the Dump-capture Kernel
 ============================
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index fc34332c8d9a6df..5fafeea70f8f14d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -783,6 +783,9 @@
 			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
 			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
 			hasn't been specified.
+			[KNL, ARM64] Try low allocation in DMA zone and fall back
+			to high allocation if it fails when '@offset' hasn't been
+			specified.
 			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
 
 	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
@@ -799,6 +802,8 @@
 			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
 			available.
 			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
+			[KNL, ARM64] range in high memory.
+			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top.
 	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
 			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
 			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
@@ -807,13 +812,15 @@
 			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
 			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
 			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
-			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
+			least 256M below 4G automatically.
 			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
 			for second kernel instead.
 			0: to disable low allocation.
 			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
 			or memory reserved is below 4G.
-
+			[KNL, ARM64] range in low memory.
+			This one let user to specify a low range in DMA zone for
+			crash dump kernel.
 	cryptomgr.notests
 			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
 
-- 
2.25.1


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-28 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-28 13:25 [PATCH v19 00/13] support reserving crashkernel above 4G on arm64 kdump Zhen Lei
2021-12-28 13:26 ` [PATCH v19 01/13] kdump: add helper parse_crashkernel_high_low() Zhen Lei
2021-12-30 10:14   ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-30 10:40     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-30 11:08       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-31  9:22         ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-31 12:29           ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2022-01-11 15:03   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-28 13:26 ` [PATCH v19 02/13] x86/setup: Use parse_crashkernel_high_low() to simplify code Zhen Lei
2021-12-28 16:13   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-29  2:27     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-29  7:27       ` Dave Young
2021-12-29  7:45         ` Dave Young
2021-12-29 10:11           ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-29 10:38             ` Dave Young
2021-12-29 11:11               ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-29 14:13               ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-29 10:03         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-29 10:46           ` Dave Young
2021-12-29 15:04             ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-29 16:51               ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-30  2:39                 ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-30  8:56                   ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-29 12:19         ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2022-01-11 15:04   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-28 13:26 ` [PATCH v19 03/13] kdump: make parse_crashkernel_{high|low}() static Zhen Lei
2022-01-11 15:04   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-28 13:26 ` [PATCH v19 04/13] kdump: reduce unnecessary parameters of parse_crashkernel_{high|low}() Zhen Lei
2022-01-11 15:05   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-28 13:26 ` [PATCH v19 05/13] x86/setup: Add and use CRASH_BASE_ALIGN Zhen Lei
2022-01-11 15:06   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-28 13:26 ` [PATCH v19 06/13] kexec: move crashk[_low]_res to crash_core module Zhen Lei
2022-01-11 15:06   ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-28 13:26 ` [PATCH v19 07/13] kdump: Add helper reserve_crashkernel_mem[_low]() Zhen Lei
2021-12-28 13:26 ` [PATCH v19 08/13] x86/setup: Move CRASH[_BASE]_ALIGN and CRASH_ADDR_{LOW|HIGH}_MAX to asm/kexec.h Zhen Lei
2021-12-28 13:26 ` [PATCH v19 09/13] x86/setup: Use generic reserve_crashkernel_mem[_low]() Zhen Lei
2021-12-28 13:26 ` [PATCH v19 10/13] arm64: kdump: introduce some macros for crash kernel reservation Zhen Lei
2021-12-28 13:26 ` [PATCH v19 11/13] arm64: kdump: reimplement crashkernel=X Zhen Lei
2022-01-12 14:45   ` Dave Kleikamp
2022-01-13  1:17     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-12-28 13:26 ` [PATCH v19 12/13] of: fdt: Add memory for devices by DT property "linux,usable-memory-range" Zhen Lei
2021-12-28 13:26 ` Zhen Lei [this message]

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