[PATCH v11 5/5] kdump: update Documentation about crashkernel

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Sep 2 12:42:52 EDT 2020


On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 03:07:04PM +0800, chenzhou wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index a8e34d97a894..4df18c7ea438 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
>         }
>         memblock_reserve(crash_base, crash_size);
>  
> -       if (crash_base >= CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX) {
> +       if (memstart_addr < CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX && crash_base >= CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX) {
>                 const char *rename = "Crash kernel (low)";

Since CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX is defined as arm64_dma32_phys_limit and such
limit is always greater than memstart_addr, this additional check
doesn't do anything. See my other reply on how ZONE_DMA32 is created on
arm64.

-- 
Catalin



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