[PATCH v4 2/3] crash: Fix x86_32 crash memory reserve dead loop

[Jinjie Ruan]

On x86_32 Qemu machine with 1GB memory, the cmdline "crashkernel=512M" will
also cause system stall as below:

	ACPI: Reserving FACP table memory at [mem 0x3ffe18b8-0x3ffe192b]
	ACPI: Reserving DSDT table memory at [mem 0x3ffe0040-0x3ffe18b7]
	ACPI: Reserving FACS table memory at [mem 0x3ffe0000-0x3ffe003f]
	ACPI: Reserving APIC table memory at [mem 0x3ffe192c-0x3ffe19bb]
	ACPI: Reserving HPET table memory at [mem 0x3ffe19bc-0x3ffe19f3]
	ACPI: Reserving WAET table memory at [mem 0x3ffe19f4-0x3ffe1a1b]
	143MB HIGHMEM available.
	879MB LOWMEM available.
	  mapped low ram: 0 - 36ffe000
	  low ram: 0 - 36ffe000
	  (stall here)

The reason is that the CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX is equal to CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX
on x86_32, the first "low" crash kernel memory reservation for 512M fails,
then it go into the "retry" loop and never came out as below (consider
CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX = CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX = 512M):

-> reserve_crashkernel_generic() and high is false
   -> alloc at [0, 0x20000000] fail
      -> alloc at [0x20000000, 0x20000000] fail and repeatedly
      (because CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX = CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX).

Fix it by skipping meaningless calls of memblock_phys_alloc_range() with
`start = end`

After this patch, the retry dead loop is avoided and print below info:
	cannot allocate crashkernel (size:0x20000000)

And apply generic crashkernel reservation to 32bit system will be ready.

Fixes: 9c08a2a139fe ("x86: kdump: use generic interface to simplify crashkernel reservation code")
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie at huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
---
v4:
- Signed-off-by -> Suggested-by as suggested.
- Remove the Tested-by as suggested.
- Update the commit subject
v3:
- Fix it as Baoquan suggested.
- Update the commit message.
---
 kernel/crash_reserve.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/crash_reserve.c b/kernel/crash_reserve.c
index c5213f123e19..dacc268429e2 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_reserve.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_reserve.c
@@ -414,7 +414,8 @@ void __init reserve_crashkernel_generic(char *cmdline,
 			search_end = CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX;
 			search_base = CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX;
 			crash_low_size = DEFAULT_CRASH_KERNEL_LOW_SIZE;
-			goto retry;
+			if (search_base != search_end)
+				goto retry;
 		}
 
 		/*
-- 
2.34.1