Memory reservation for crashkernel could fail if there are holes around kdump kernel offset (128M). Fail gracefully in such cases and print an error message.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <[email protected]> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c index 936c7e2..6181442 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c @@ -188,7 +188,12 @@ void __init reserve_crashkernel(void) (unsigned long)(crashk_res.start >> 20), (unsigned long)(memblock_phys_mem_size() >> 20)); - memblock_reserve(crashk_res.start, crash_size); + if (!memblock_is_region_memory(crashk_res.start, crash_size) || + memblock_reserve(crashk_res.start, crash_size)) { + printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to reserve memory for crashkernel!\n"); + crashk_res.start = crashk_res.end = 0; + return; + } } int overlaps_crashkernel(unsigned long start, unsigned long size)
