From patchwork Sat Jan 30 07:10:25 2021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: chenzhou X-Patchwork-Id: 12056869 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-17.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 820EEC433E0 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 07:08:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from merlin.infradead.org (merlin.infradead.org [205.233.59.134]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B4D764E1C for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 07:08:53 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 4B4D764E1C Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=huawei.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=merlin.20170209; h=Sender:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:Cc:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post:List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Date: Subject:To:From:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=F3k3ZPprGicSNc336s0uN6uXLOnlA9cPi/OA7ePotzA=; b=Znx16e68hw2BuCUb30rAhduJ7 qQB7jXULyfbPXVhVxmLLMunyJf3PUPhh3RG39A6kajwJT1kkrAfjrjejIzkGr8sM8UmNc6BKTuyKn uLMLw2RCJa5nRsXHxFn/L0EPpapfOoeOrhzkdo2f4KUBY/qXAdRT/yBxMfsSUOyzHA9gXbVGRbHDV BYUXKFWWqYUf6GC85lLC5+F1hzba4Yl6WUbSOWk+HYblYHK2Sg8LOmxJQsSfPbvCA+/9FcOITcbiE 8Rr1psbE1C5zihNFGDhy3yLDuklUxWDWZM8+EKgMdSrn23LXoH0vy+S0rX3Hnlb7YT+SrbuRR/znL LIxFijp6w==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=merlin.infradead.org) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1l5kLh-0001ov-Rk; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 07:07:14 +0000 Received: from szxga05-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.191]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1l5kKu-0001Zu-Tf; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 07:06:29 +0000 Received: from DGGEMS402-HUB.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.60]) by szxga05-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4DSQFX2GC1zjGPY; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 15:05:04 +0800 (CST) Received: from localhost.localdomain.localdomain (10.175.113.25) by DGGEMS402-HUB.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.202) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.498.0; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 15:06:12 +0800 From: Chen Zhou To: , , , , , , , , , , , Subject: [PATCH v14 11/11] kdump: update Documentation about crashkernel Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 15:10:25 +0800 Message-ID: <20210130071025.65258-12-chenzhou10@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <20210130071025.65258-1-chenzhou10@huawei.com> References: <20210130071025.65258-1-chenzhou10@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [10.175.113.25] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20210130_020625_517795_7E430274 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 13.29 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: John Donnelly , wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com, arnd@arndb.de, xiexiuqi@huawei.com, chenzhou10@huawei.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robh+dt@kernel.org, horms@verge.net.au, james.morse@arm.com, huawei.libin@huawei.com, guohanjun@huawei.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org For arm64, the behavior of crashkernel=X has been changed, which tries low allocation in DMA zone and fall back to high allocation if it fails. We can also use "crashkernel=X,high" to select a high region above DMA zone, which also tries to allocate at least 256M low memory in DMA zone automatically and "crashkernel=Y,low" can be used to allocate specified size low memory. So update the Documentation. Signed-off-by: Chen Zhou Tested-by: John Donnelly Acked-by: Baoquan He --- Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++--- .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 ++++++++-- 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst index 75a9dd98e76e..0877c76f8015 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst @@ -299,7 +299,16 @@ Boot into System Kernel "crashkernel=64M@16M" tells the system kernel to reserve 64 MB of memory starting at physical address 0x01000000 (16MB) for the dump-capture kernel. - On x86 and x86_64, use "crashkernel=64M@16M". + On x86 use "crashkernel=64M@16M". + + On x86_64, use "crashkernel=X" to select a region under 4G first, and + fall back to reserve region above 4G. And go for high allocation + directly if the required size is too large. + We can also use "crashkernel=X,high" to select a region above 4G, which + also tries to allocate at least 256M below 4G automatically and + "crashkernel=Y,low" can be used to allocate specified size low memory. + Use "crashkernel=Y@X" if you really have to reserve memory from specified + start address X. On ppc64, use "crashkernel=128M@32M". @@ -316,8 +325,15 @@ Boot into System Kernel kernel will automatically locate the crash kernel image within the first 512MB of RAM if X is not given. - On arm64, use "crashkernel=Y[@X]". Note that the start address of - the kernel, X if explicitly specified, must be aligned to 2MiB (0x200000). + On arm64, use "crashkernel=X" to try low allocation in DMA zone and + fall back to high allocation if it fails. + We can also use "crashkernel=X,high" to select a high region above + DMA zone, which also tries to allocate at least 256M low memory in + DMA zone automatically. + "crashkernel=Y,low" can be used to allocate specified size low memory. + Use "crashkernel=Y@X" if you really have to reserve memory from + specified start address X. Note that the start address of the kernel, + X if explicitly specified, must be aligned to 2MiB (0x200000). Load the Dump-capture Kernel ============================ diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index a10b545c2070..908e5c8b61ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -738,6 +738,9 @@ [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified. + [KNL, arm64] Try low allocation in DMA zone and fall back + to high allocation if it fails when '@offset' hasn't been + specified. See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] @@ -754,6 +757,8 @@ Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if available. It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. + [KNL, arm64] range in high memory. + Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top. crashkernel=size[KMG],low [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region @@ -762,13 +767,15 @@ requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at - at least 256M below 4G automatically. + least 256M below 4G automatically. This one let user to specify own low range under 4G for second kernel instead. 0: to disable low allocation. It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used or memory reserved is below 4G. - + [KNL, arm64] range in low memory. + This one let user to specify a low range in DMA zone for + crash dump kernel. cryptomgr.notests [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests