[EXT] Re: [PATCH] of/fdt: move elfcorehdr reservation early for crash dump kernel

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 9:37 AM Nikhil Gupta <nikhil.gupta at nxp.com> wrote:
>

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> Hello Rob,
>
> This issue will come in scenarios where the memory has been reserved using fdt_init_reserved_mem()
> The memory address which is reserved overlaps with the address of elfcorehdr which has a fixed address,
> So the memory for elfcorehdr needs to be reserved first.
>
> crashkernel memory range : 0x00000000d4000000 - 0x00000000f4000000 (512 MB)
> elfcorehdr addr is calculated in kexec tool based on reserved crashkernel memory space. (Last page is used in top down order)
> elfcorehdr conflict with memory [    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000f3c00000-0x00000000f3ffffff] reserved by fdt_init_reserved_mem()
>
> Without Patch:
>
> [    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000d4010000-0x00000000d677ffff] arm64_memblock_init+0x258/0x2c8
> [    0.000000] memblock_phys_alloc_range: 4194304 bytes align=0x400000 from=0x0000000000000000 max_addr=0x0001000000000000 early_init_dt_alloc_reserved_memory_arch+0x9c/0x16c
> [    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000f3c00000-0x00000000f3ffffff] memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xdc/0x150
> [    0.000000] memblock_phys_alloc_range: 33554432 bytes align=0x2000000 from=0x0000000000000000 max_addr=0x0001000000000000 early_init_dt_alloc_reserved_memory_arch+0x9c/0x16c
> [    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000f0000000-0x00000000f1ffffff] memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xdc/0x150
> [    0.000000] memblock_phys_alloc_range: 16777216 bytes align=0x1000000 from=0x0000000000000000 max_addr=0x0001000000000000 early_init_dt_alloc_reserved_memory_arch+0x9c/0x16c
> [    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000f2000000-0x00000000f2ffffff] memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xdc/0x150
> [    0.000000] OF: reserved mem: initialized node bman-fbpr, compatible id fsl,bman-fbpr
> [    0.000000] OF: fdt: elfcorehdr is overlapped
>
> With Patch:
>
> [    0.000000] memblock_remove: [0x0001000000000000-0x0000fffffffffffe] arm64_memblock_init+0xa0/0x2d8
> [    0.000000] memblock_remove: [0x00008000c0000000-0x00008000bffffffe] arm64_memblock_init+0xfc/0x2d8
> [    0.000000] memblock_remove: [0x00000000d6160000-0x00000000d83befff] arm64_memblock_init+0x1c8/0x2d8
> [    0.000000] memblock_add: [0x00000000d6160000-0x00000000d83befff] arm64_memblock_init+0x1d4/0x2d8
> [    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000d6160000-0x00000000d83befff] arm64_memblock_init+0x1e0/0x2d8
> [    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000d4010000-0x00000000d615ffff] arm64_memblock_init+0x260/0x2d8
> [    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000f3fff000-0x00000000f3fff3ff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x370/0x3c8
> [    0.000000] OF: fdt: Reserving 1 KiB of memory at 0xf3fff000 for elfcorehdr
> [    0.000000] memblock_phys_alloc_range: 4194304 bytes align=0x400000 from=0x0000000000000000 max_addr=0x0001000000000000 early_init_dt_alloc_reserved_memory_arch+0x38/0x8c
> [    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000f3800000-0x00000000f3bfffff] memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xdc/0x150
> [    0.000000] memblock_phys_alloc_range: 33554432 bytes align=0x2000000 from=0x0000000000000000 max_addr=0x0001000000000000 early_init_dt_alloc_reserved_memory_arch+0x38/0x8c
> [    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000f0000000-0x00000000f1ffffff] memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xdc/0x150
> [    0.000000] memblock_phys_alloc_range: 16777216 bytes align=0x1000000 from=0x0000000000000000 max_addr=0x0001000000000000 early_init_dt_alloc_reserved_memory_arch+0x38/0x8c

Digging a bit more, it seems this never worked? It is also not fixable
in this way before commit 57beb9bd18fc ("arm64: kdump: Remove custom
linux,elfcorehdr handling"). So if you want a fix prior to v5.15, it
will need a different fix.

Rob