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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] kdump x86: fix total mem size calculation for reservation
On 03/10/2012 12:56 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> crashkernel reservation need know the total memory size. Current get_total_mem
> simply use max_pfn - min_low_pfn. It is wrong because it will including
> memory holes in the middle.
>
> Especially for kvm guest with memory> 0xe0000000, there's below in qemu code:
> qemu split memory as below:
> if (ram_size>= 0xe0000000 ) {
> above_4g_mem_size = ram_size - 0xe0000000;
> below_4g_mem_size = 0xe0000000;
> } else {
> below_4g_mem_size = ram_size;
> }
> So for 4G mem guest, seabios will insert a 512M usable region beyond of 4G.
> Thus in above case max_pfn - min_low_pfn will be more than original memsize.
>
> Fixing this issue by using memblock_phys_mem_size() to get the total memsize.
>
> [v1 -> v2]: refresh the patch based on latest linus tree
>

Looks good to my eyes,

Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

Can you post the result of crashkernel after this patch to convince people?

Thanks.


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