[PATCH v2] crash: use macro to add crashk_res into iomem early for specific arch
Baoquan He
bhe at redhat.com
Mon Mar 25 16:35:16 PDT 2024
On 03/25/24 at 01:29pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:50:50 +0800 Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > There are regression reports[1][2] that crashkernel region on x86_64 can't
> > be added into iomem tree sometime. This causes the later failure of kdump
> > loading.
>
> So I think a cc:stable is needed.
Yeah, I forgot this.
>
> > This happened after commit 4a693ce65b18 ("kdump: defer the insertion of
> > crashkernel resources") was merged.
> >
> > Even though, these reported issues are proved to be related to other
> > component, they are just exposed after above commmit applied, I still
> > would like to keep crashk_res and crashk_low_res being added into iomem
> > early as before because the early adding has been always there on x86_64
> > and working very well. For safety of kdump, Let's change it back.
>
> I'll use 4a693ce65b18 as the Fixes: target, since there is no
> "Exposed-by-non-buggy-patch:" tag. To tell the -stable tree
> maintainers how far back in history this should be backported.
Thanks a lot.
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