[PATCH v11 2/5] x86: kdump: move reserve_crashkernel_low() into crash_core.c

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Sep 1 12:50:02 EDT 2020


On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 03:36:27PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Chen Zhou <chenzhou10 at huawei.com> wrote:
> 
> > In preparation for supporting reserve_crashkernel_low in arm64 as
> > x86_64 does, move reserve_crashkernel_low() into kernel/crash_core.c.
> > 
> > BTW, move x86_64 CRASH_ALIGN to 2M suggested by Dave. CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN
> > can be selected from 2M to 16M, move to the same as arm64.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10 at huawei.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h | 24 ++++++++++
> >  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c      | 86 +++---------------------------------
> >  include/linux/crash_core.h   |  3 ++
> >  include/linux/kexec.h        |  2 -
> >  kernel/crash_core.c          | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  kernel/kexec_core.c          | 17 -------
> >  6 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
> 
> Since the changes are centered around arm64, I suppose the arm64 tree 
> will carry this patchset?
> 
> Assuming that this is a 100% invariant moving of code that doesn't 
> regress on x86:
> 
>   Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>

Thanks Ingo. The only difference I see is that CRASH_ALIGN has been
reduced to 2M here from 16M for x86. Would this break configs that have
PHYSICAL_ALIGN > 2M?

-- 
Catalin



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