3.9-rc1: crash kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer earlier and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer

[WANG Chao]

On 03/08/2013 02:36 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai at kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:03 PM, CAI Qian <caiqian at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> CC'ing kexec ML. Also mentioned that 3.8 has no such issue.
>>>
>>> This message looks suspicious and out of range while 3.8 reservation
>>> looks within the range.
>>>
>>> [    0.000000] Reserving 128MB of memory at 5216MB for crashkernel
>>> (System RAM: 3977MB)
>>>
>>> Wondering if anything to do with memblock again...
>>
>> that is intended...
>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "WANG Chao" <chaowang at redhat.com>
>>>> To: "LKML" vger.kernel.org>
>>>> Cc: "CAI Qian" <caiqian at redhat.com>
>>>> Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013 1:54:37 PM
>>>> Subject: 3.9-rc1: crash kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer earlier and can't now provide you
>>>> with the DMA bounce buffer
>>>>
>>>> Hi, All
>>>>
>>>> On 3.9-rc1, I load crash kernel with latest kexec-tools(up to
>>>> 28d413a), but
>>>> 2nd kernel panic at early time:
>>>> [    2.948076] Kernel panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB
>>>> buffer earlier and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer
>>>> [    2.959958] Pid: 53, comm: khubd Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1+ #1
>>
>> You need to add crashkernel_low=64M in first kernel.
>>
>> As your system does not support DMA remapping.
> 
> looks like your system DO have DMAR table, please enable dmar
> remapping in your kernel config.

I've already got following config:
CONFIG_DMAR_TABLE=y
CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU=y
CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP=y

but I don't have intel_iommu=on in kernel cmdline. IIRC, iommu will prevent
2nd kernel from booting ...

I tested crashkernel=128M and crashkernel_low=64M, seems 2nd-kernel/kexec only
works when two params are used in combination.

Thanks,
WANG Chao

> 
> Yinghai
>