On a x86-64 machine (nothing special I could encounter) I had the problem that
crashkernel reservation with the usual "64M@16M" failed. While debugging that,
I encountered that dma32_reserve_bootmem() reserves a memory region which is in
that area.
Because dma32_reserve_bootmem() does not rely on a specific offset but
crashkernel does, it makes sense to move the crashkernel reservation up a bit.
I tested that patch and it works without problems. I don't see any negative
effects of that move, but maybe I oversaw something ...
While we strictly don't need that patch in 2.6.27 because we have the
automatic, dynamic offset detection, it makes sense to also include it here
because:
- it's easier to get it in -stable then,
- many people are still used to the 'crashkernel=...@16M' syntax,
- not everybody may be using a reloatable kernel.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
---
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 531b55b..16101c0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -792,6 +792,12 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
initmem_init(0, max_pfn);
+ /*
+ * dma32_reserve_bootmem() allocates bootmem which may conflict
+ * with the crashkernel command line, so do that before
+ */
+ reserve_crashkernel();
+
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
dma32_reserve_bootmem();
#endif
@@ -808,7 +814,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
*/
find_smp_config();
#endif
- reserve_crashkernel();
reserve_ibft_region();
--
1.5.6
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