Hello Hari,
On 23/01/25 16:00, Hari Bathini wrote:
On 21/01/25 5:24 pm, Sourabh Jain wrote:Commit 59d58189f3d9 ("crash: fix crash memory reserve exceed system memory bug") fails crashkernel parsing if the crash size is found to be higher than system RAM, which makes the memory_limit adjustment code ineffective due to an early exit from reserve_crashkernel(). Regardless lets not violated the user-specified memory limit bys/violated/violate/
Noted. It will be fixed in next version.
adjusting it. Remove this adjustment to ensure all reservations stay within the limit. Commit f94f5ac07983 ("powerpc/fadump: Don't update the user-specified memory limit") did the same for fadump.Acked-by: Hari Bathini <[email protected]>
Thanks for the Ack! - Sourabh Jain
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Baoquan he <[email protected]> Cc: Hari Bathini <[email protected]> CC: Madhavan Srinivasan <[email protected]> Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <[email protected]> --- arch/powerpc/kexec/core.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/core.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/core.c index b8333a49ea5d..4945b33322ae 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/core.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/core.c @@ -150,14 +150,6 @@ void __init reserve_crashkernel(void) return; } - /* Crash kernel trumps memory limit */ - if (memory_limit && memory_limit <= crashk_res.end) { - memory_limit = crashk_res.end + 1; - total_mem_sz = memory_limit; - printk("Adjusted memory limit for crashkernel, now 0x%llx\n", - memory_limit); - } - printk(KERN_INFO "Reserving %ldMB of memory at %ldMB " "for crashkernel (System RAM: %ldMB)\n", (unsigned long)(crash_size >> 20),
