Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2021-07-30

Re: [PATCH] memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private

From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Date: 2021-07-30 10:47:46
Also in: kvmarm, linux-acpi, linux-arm-kernel, linux-devicetree, linux-mm, linux-riscv, linux-s390, lkml

On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 01:40:39PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
index f97eb2371672..1f8ef9fd5215 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -1012,31 +1012,25 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
 		unsigned long long lowmem_max = __pa(high_memory - 1) + 1;
 		if (crash_max > lowmem_max)
 			crash_max = lowmem_max;
-		crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN, crash_max,
-						    crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN);
+
+		crash_base = memblock_phys_alloc_range(crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN,
+						       CRASH_ALIGN, crash_max);
 		if (!crash_base) {
 			pr_err("crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
 			return;
 		}
 	} else {
+		unsigned long long crash_max = crash_base + crash_size;
 		unsigned long long start;
 
-		start = memblock_find_in_range(crash_base,
-					       crash_base + crash_size,
-					       crash_size, SECTION_SIZE);
+		start = memblock_phys_alloc_range(crash_size, SECTION_SIZE,
+						  crash_base, crash_max);
 		if (start != crash_base) {
-			pr_err("crashkernel reservation failed - memory is in use.\n");
+			pr_err("crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
This change to the error message is incorrect. In this code block, we
are trying to get the exact specified memory block - it is not about
there being "no suitable area" - the requested memory block is not
available. So, the original message carries the exact correct meaning.

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