Re: [PATCH v14 11/11] kdump: update Documentation about crashkernel
From: Randy Dunlap <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-30 17:54:47
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Hi-- On 1/29/21 11:10 PM, Chen Zhou wrote:
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--- 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/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
All of the "arm64" instances in [square brackets] should be "ARM64".
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@@ -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
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+ 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.
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+ 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.
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+ This one let user to specify a low range in DMA zone for + crash dump kernel.
Thanks. -- ~Randy _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel