From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E36BC4332F for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2021 13:15:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S237411AbhLPNPe (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:15:34 -0500 Received: from szxga02-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.188]:28324 "EHLO szxga02-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S237406AbhLPNPd (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:15:33 -0500 Received: from dggpemm500021.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.53]) by szxga02-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4JFCJw19VTzbjMD; Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:15:12 +0800 (CST) Received: from dggpemm500006.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.236) by dggpemm500021.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.109) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2308.20; Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:15:31 +0800 Received: from [10.174.178.55] (10.174.178.55) by dggpemm500006.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.236) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2308.20; Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:15:30 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 05/10] x86: kdump: move reserve_crashkernel[_low]() into crash_core.c To: Borislav Petkov CC: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , , "H . Peter Anvin" , , Dave Young , Baoquan He , Vivek Goyal , Eric Biederman , , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , , Rob Herring , Frank Rowand , , "Jonathan Corbet" , , Randy Dunlap , Feng Zhou , Kefeng Wang , Chen Zhou References: <20211210065533.2023-1-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> <20211210065533.2023-6-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> From: "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" Message-ID: <217fb106-980c-0bd9-8398-d52ef255d51f@huawei.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:15:18 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.174.178.55] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems701-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.178) To dggpemm500006.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.236) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2021/12/16 19:17, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 02:55:28PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote: >> + * reserve_crashkernel() - reserves memory for crash kernel >> + * >> + * This function reserves memory area given in "crashkernel=" kernel command >> + * line parameter. The memory reserved is used by dump capture kernel when >> + * primary kernel is crashing. >> + */ >> +void __init reserve_crashkernel(void) > > As I've already alluded to in another mail, ontop of this there should > be a patch or multiple patches which clean this up more and perhaps even > split it into separate functions doing stuff in this order: > > 1. Parse all crashkernel= cmdline options > > 2. Do all crash_base, crash_size etc checks > > 3. Do the memory reservations > > And all that supplied with comments explaining why stuff is being done. I agree with you. This makes the code look clear. I will do it, try to post v18 next Monday. > > This set of functions is a mess and there's no better time for cleaning > it up and documenting it properly than when you move it to generic code. > > Thx. >