Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | Date | Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:46:31 +0200 | | From | Bernhard Walle <> | | Subject | [patch 3/3] Use reserve_bootmem_generic() to reserve crashkernel memory on x86_64 |
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This patch uses reserve_bootmem_generic() instead of reserve_bootmem() to reserve the crashkernel memory on x86_64. That's necessary for NUMA machines, see 00212fef814612245ed0261cbac8426d0c9a31a5:
[PATCH] Fix kdump Crash Kernel boot memory reservation for NUMA machines
This patch will fix a boot memory reservation bug that trashes memory on the ES7000 when loading the kdump crash kernel.
The code in arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c to reserve boot memory for the crash kernel uses the non-numa aware "reserve_bootmem" function instead of the NUMA aware "reserve_bootmem_generic". I checked to make sure that no other function was using "reserve_bootmem" and found none, except the ones that had NUMA ifdef'ed out.
I have tested this patch only on an ES7000 with NUMA on and off (numa=off) in a single (non-NUMA) and multi-cell (NUMA) configurations.
Signed-off-by: Amul Shah <amul.shah@unisys.com> Looks-good-to: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The switch-back to reserve_bootmem() was accidentally introduced in 5c3391f9f749023a49c64d607da4fb49263690eb when adding the BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE parameter.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
--- arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(v return; } - if (reserve_bootmem(crash_base, crash_size, + if (reserve_bootmem_generic(crash_base, crash_size, BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE) < 0) { printk(KERN_INFO "crashkernel reservation failed - " "memory is in use\n");
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