[PATCH 03/12] ARM: kexec: remove 512MB restriction on kexec crashdump

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 07:49:45PM +0530, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Russell King
> <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 5 +----
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
> > index 77b54c461c52..d9317eec1eba 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
> > @@ -943,7 +943,6 @@ late_initcall(init_machine_late);
> >   * zImage relocating below the reserved region.
> >   */
> >  #define CRASH_ALIGN    (128 << 20)
> > -#define CRASH_ADDR_MAX (PHYS_OFFSET + (512 << 20))
> >
> >  static inline unsigned long long get_total_mem(void)
> >  {
> > @@ -973,9 +972,7 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
> >                 return;
> >
> >         if (crash_base <= 0) {
> > -               unsigned long long crash_max = CRASH_ADDR_MAX;
> > -               if (crash_max > (u32)~0)
> > -                       crash_max = (u32)~0;
> > +               unsigned long long crash_max = idmap_to_phys((u32)~0);
> >                 crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN, crash_max,
> >                                                     crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN);
> >                 if (!crash_base) {
> 
> Reviewed-by: Pratyush Anand <panand at redhat.com>
> 
> Unrelated to these modification:
> In function arch/arm/mm/init.c: arm_memblock_steal() may be  following
> would be more appropriate?
> memblock_alloc_base(size, align, idmap_to_phys(MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE));

No, arm_memblock_steal() is totally unsuitable.  arm_memblock_steal()
*removes* the memory range from memblock, including removing the 
mapping of that memory.  It will make the memory range inaccessible to
the kernel.

Since kexec wants to write directly to this memory, using
arm_memblock_steal() will have the cause the kernel to OOPS when
it hits the resulting hole.

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