Re: [PATCH] x86/kdump: Fix 'kmem -s' reported an invalid freepointer when SME was active

2019-10-01 Thread Baoquan He
On 09/30/19 at 05:14am, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Baoquan He writes: > >> needs a little better description. I know it is not a lot on modern > >> systems but reserving an extra 1M of memory to avoid having to special > >> case it later seems in need of calling out. > >> > >> I have an old syst

[PATCH] x86/kdump: Fix 'kmem -s' reported an invalid freepointer when SME was active

2019-09-19 Thread Lianbo Jiang
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204793 Kdump kernel will reuse the first 640k region because of some reasons, for example: the trampline and conventional PC system BIOS region may require to allocate memory in this area. Obviously, kdump kernel will also overwrite the first 6