mip64: kexec: Probem in allocating resevr mem

[Vishnu Yadav]

Thanks Maxim for detailed analysys.

i could see how the
BOOT_MEM_RESERVED is used.
I think in my case since the kernel was cavium the tuned kernel. and in that
when i gave 64Mb as start address for reserving memory it worked.

Regards,
Vishnu

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Maxim Uvarov <muvarov at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Vishnu Yadav,
>
> If you don't see reserved memory region on mips in /proc/iomem than it
> is definitely kernel issue. You can check:
> 1. you have continuous memory segment, which is enough for booting new
> kernel in low 512M. (In general you can reserve memory at any address
> but kernel can be booted if it is in lower 512M),
> 2. you specified right crashkernel= option. And it points to real
> memory segment.
> 3. crashkernel was  parsed right in the kernel.
>
> dmesg |grep mem - will print existence memory segments in format
> X(memory size) @(at) Y(memory address).
> cat /proc/iomem - should show  that memory is really reserved. If you
> don't see reserved segments then you have to debug how kernel reserves
> area for crashkernel (BOOT_MEM_RESERVED).
>
> Best regards,
> Maxim Uvarov.
>
> 2010/2/22 Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>:
>  > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 06:36:07PM +0530, Vishnu Yadav wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> I am  not able to reserve the memory in mips 64 plateform for "crash
> kernel"
> >>
> >> in below function of arch/mips/kernel/setup.c file of kernel code
> >> reserve_bootmem(start, size , flags)
> >> if i put flags= BOOTMEM_DEFAULT then this function succeeds but doesnt
> >> reserve  mem of crash kernel .. i verified it by seeing /proc/iomem
> >>
> >> but if i put flags= BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE .. this function itself fails and
> >> again no memry is reseved.
> >>
> >>
> >> Pls suggest me how to resevre mem regio for "crash kernel" in mips 64.
> NOTE-
> >> I have applied kernel as well as user spaces patches for running kexec
> on
> >> mips64.
> >
> > Does Maxim Uvarov's recent patch help you at all?
> >
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2010-February/003816.html
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Maxim Uvarov
>



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Best Regards,

Vishnu Yadav
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