Re: [PATCH 1/2 v6] x86/kdump: always reserve the low 1MiB when the crashkernel option is specified

2019-10-27 Thread lijiang
在 2019年10月28日 11:19, Dave Young 写道: > On 10/28/19 at 10:45am, Lianbo Jiang wrote: >> Kdump kernel will reuse the first 640k region because the real mode >> trampoline has to work in this area. When the vmcore is dumped, the >> old memory in this area may be accessed, therefore, kernel has to >>

Re: [PATCH 1/2 v6] x86/kdump: always reserve the low 1MiB when the crashkernel option is specified

2019-10-27 Thread Dave Young
On 10/28/19 at 10:45am, Lianbo Jiang wrote: > Kdump kernel will reuse the first 640k region because the real mode > trampoline has to work in this area. When the vmcore is dumped, the > old memory in this area may be accessed, therefore, kernel has to > copy the contents of the first 640k area to

[PATCH 1/2 v6] x86/kdump: always reserve the low 1MiB when the crashkernel option is specified

2019-10-27 Thread Lianbo Jiang
Kdump kernel will reuse the first 640k region because the real mode trampoline has to work in this area. When the vmcore is dumped, the old memory in this area may be accessed, therefore, kernel has to copy the contents of the first 640k area to a backup region so that kdump kernel can read the