[PATCH 3/3] crash_core: fix and simplify the logic of crash_exclude_mem_range()

[Andrew Morton]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 11:31:04 +0800 Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com> wrote:

> > > Imagine we have a crashkernel region 256M reserved under 4G, say [2G, 2G+256M].
> > > Then after excluding the 256M from a region, it should stop. But now, this patch
> > > will make it continue scanning. Not sure if it's all in my mind.
> > 
> > Hi Baoquan,
> > 
> > Thank you for such a detailed reply. Now I finally understand why the code is
> > written this way.
> > 
> > However, if we can guarantee its correctness, wouldn't it be better to use the
> > generic region removing logic? At least it is more concise and clear, and other
> > people reading this code for the first time wouldn't get confused like me.
> > 
> > As for your concern about the while loop, I think it wouldn't affect performance
> > much because the total number of loops is small.
> 
> Well, see below kexec-tools commit, you wouldn't say that. And when you
> understand the code, you will feel a little uncomfortable about the
> sustaining useless scanning. At least, we should stop scanning after
> needed exluding is done.
> 
> Or, we may need add a generic region removing function so that it
> can be shared, e.g e820 memory region removing, memblock region removing.
> Otherwise, I can't see why a specific region excluding need a generic 
> region removing function.

So where do we now stand on this patchset?

Thanks.