Thread (40 messages) 40 messages, 5 authors, 2021-02-26

Re: [PATCH v14 11/11] kdump: update Documentation about crashkernel

From: Randy Dunlap <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-30 17:54:47
Also in: kexec, linux-doc, lkml

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
			      here
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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.
			      here
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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.
			      here
+			This one let user to specify a low range in DMA zone for
+			crash dump kernel.

Thanks.

-- 
~Randy


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