[PATCH 2/4] x86, memblock: Fix crashkernel allocation

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Mon Oct 04 2010 - 17:59:20 EST



Cai Qian found crashkernel is broken with x86 memblock changes
1. crashkernel=128M@32M always reported that range is used, even first kernel is small
no one use that range
2. always get following report when using "kexec -p"
Could not find a free area of memory of a000 bytes...
locate_hole failed

The root cause is that generic memblock_find_in_range() will try to get range from top_down.
But crashkernel do need from low and specified range.

Let's limit the target range with rash_base + crash_size to make sure that
We get range from bottom.

-v5: use DEFAULT_BZIMAGE_ADDR_MAX to limit area that could be used by bzImge.
also second try for vmlinux or new kexec tools will use bzImage 64bit entry

Reported-and-Bisected-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -501,6 +501,7 @@ static inline unsigned long long get_tot
return total << PAGE_SHIFT;
}

+#define DEFAULT_BZIMAGE_ADDR_MAX 0x37FFFFFF
static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
{
unsigned long long total_mem;
@@ -518,17 +519,28 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(v
if (crash_base <= 0) {
const unsigned long long alignment = 16<<20; /* 16M */

- crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(alignment, ULONG_MAX, crash_size,
- alignment);
+ /*
+ * Assume half crash_size is for bzImage
+ * kexec want bzImage is below DEFAULT_BZIMAGE_ADDR_MAX
+ */
+ crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(alignment,
+ DEFAULT_BZIMAGE_ADDR_MAX + crash_size/2,
+ crash_size, alignment);
+
if (crash_base == MEMBLOCK_ERROR) {
- pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
- return;
+ crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(alignment,
+ ULONG_MAX, crash_size, alignment);
+
+ if (crash_base == MEMBLOCK_ERROR) {
+ pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
+ return;
+ }
}
} else {
unsigned long long start;

- start = memblock_find_in_range(crash_base, ULONG_MAX, crash_size,
- 1<<20);
+ start = memblock_find_in_range(crash_base,
+ crash_base + crash_size, crash_size, 1<<20);
if (start != crash_base) {
pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - memory is in use.\n");
return;
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