On 02/27/22 at 11:07am, Zhen Lei wrote:
> Now arm64 has added support for "crashkernel=X,high" and
> "crashkernel=Y,low", and implements "crashkernel=X[@offset]" in the
> same way as x86. So update the Documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leiz...@huawei.com>

Looks good to me, thx.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com>

> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt 
> b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index f5a27f067db9ed9..63098786c93828c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -789,7 +789,7 @@
>                       memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
>                       image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
>                       is selected automatically.
> -                     [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
> +                     [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] Select a region under 4G first, and
>                       fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
>                       hasn't been specified.
>                       See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for 
> further details.
> @@ -802,20 +802,20 @@
>                       Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an 
> example.
>  
>       crashkernel=size[KMG],high
> -                     [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
> +                     [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow 
> kernel
>                       to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
>                       be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
>                       Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
>                       available.
>                       It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
>       crashkernel=size[KMG],low
> -                     [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
> +                     [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range under 4G. When 
> crashkernel=X,high
>                       is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
>                       above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
>                       that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
>                       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
> +                     devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
>                       at least 256M below 4G automatically.
>                       This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
>                       for second kernel instead.
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 


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