Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 2019 17:10:33 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3 v11] add reserved e820 ranges to the kdump kernel e820 table |
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 09:55:49AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > With further investigation, the failure after applying Tom's patch is > caused by OOM. When increase crashkernel reservation to 512M, kdump > kernel can boot successfully. I noticed your crashkernel reservation is > 256M, that will fail and stuck there very possibly. > > So Tom's patch can fix the issue. We need further check why much more > crashkernel memory is needed on those AMD boxes with sme support..
Yes, 256M for a kexec kernel sounds pretty much enough to me. So there's something else at play here. I wonder if that workarea after _end, from Tom's patch, needs so much room...
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