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Peter Anvin" , , Dave Young , Baoquan He , Vivek Goyal , Eric Biederman , , Catalin Marinas , "Will Deacon" , , Rob Herring , Frank Rowand , , Jonathan Corbet , CC: Zhen Lei , Randy Dunlap , Nicolas Saenz Julienne , Feng Zhou , Kefeng Wang Subject: [PATCH v15 10/10] kdump: update Documentation about crashkernel Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 10:03:17 +0800 Message-ID: <20211020020317.1220-11-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.26.0.windows.1 In-Reply-To: <20211020020317.1220-1-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> References: <20211020020317.1220-1-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [10.174.178.55] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems704-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.181) To dggpemm500006.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.236) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20211019_191455_207253_FAFC1E01 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 16.43 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org From: Chen Zhou 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 --- Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst | 11 +++++++++-- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 +++++++++-- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst index cb30ca3df27c9b2..d4c287044be0c70 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst @@ -361,8 +361,15 @@ 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 43dc35fe5bc038e..98b87e82321413b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -783,6 +783,9 @@ [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] @@ -799,6 +802,8 @@ 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 @@ -807,13 +812,15 @@ 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