[RFC/RFT PATCH 1/5] s390: make crashk_res resource a child of "System RAM"

[David Hildenbrand]

On 01.06.21 10:45, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 31.05.21 14:29, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
>>
>> Commit 4e042af463f8 ("s390/kexec: fix crash on resize of reserved memory")
>> added a comment that says "crash kernel resource should not be part of the
>> System RAM resource" but never explained why. As it looks from the code in
>> the kernel and in kexec there is no actual reason for that.
> 
> Are you sure?
> 
> Looking at kexec-tools: kexec/arch/s390/kexec-s390.c
> 
> get_memory_ranges_s390() wants "System RAM" and Crash kernel only with
> "with_crashk=1". Your patch would change that. "Crash kernel" would
> always be included if you make it a child of "System RAM".
> 
> Further, get_memory_ranges() and is_crashkernel_mem_reserved() look out
> for "Crash kernel\n" via parse_iomem_single().
> 
> However, parse_iomem_single() does not care about ranges that start with
> spaces IIRC via
>     sscanf(line, "%llx-%llx : %n" ...

I think I'm wrong about that one because I read

"Input white-space characters (as specified by the isspace function) are 
skipped, unless the specification includes a [ , c , or n specifier"

So having it as a child won't affect parse_iomem_single().

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb