From: Baoquan He <[email protected]>

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

===============

commit eb6db83d105914c246ac5875be76fd4b944833d5 upstream.

People reported that when allocating crashkernel memory using
the ",high" and ",low" syntax, there were cases where the
reservation of the high portion succeeds but the reservation of
the low portion fails.

Then kexec can load the kdump kernel successfully, but booting
the kdump kernel fails as there's no low memory.

The low memory allocation for the kdump kernel can fail on large
systems for a couple of reasons. For example, the manually
specified crashkernel low memory can be too large and thus no
adequate memblock region would be found.

Therefore, we try to reserve low memory for the crash kernel
*after* the high memory portion has been allocated. If that
fails, we free crashkernel high memory too and return. The user
can then take measures accordingly.

Tested-by: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
[ Massage text. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Salter <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: WANG Chao <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 3ebbd1fdc0a8..158c4751fa6c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ static void __init 
memblock_x86_reserve_range_setup_data(void)
 # define CRASH_KERNEL_ADDR_HIGH_MAX    MAXMEM
 #endif
 
-static void __init reserve_crashkernel_low(void)
+static int __init reserve_crashkernel_low(void)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
        const unsigned long long alignment = 16<<20;    /* 16M */
@@ -538,17 +538,16 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel_low(void)
        } else {
                /* passed with crashkernel=0,low ? */
                if (!low_size)
-                       return;
+                       return 0;
        }
 
        low_base = memblock_find_in_range(low_size, (1ULL<<32),
                                        low_size, alignment);
 
        if (!low_base) {
-               if (!auto_set)
-                       pr_info("crashkernel low reservation failed - No 
suitable area found.\n");
-
-               return;
+               pr_err("Cannot reserve %ldMB crashkernel low memory, please try 
smaller size.\n",
+                      (unsigned long)(low_size >> 20));
+               return -ENOMEM;
        }
 
        memblock_reserve(low_base, low_size);
@@ -560,6 +559,7 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel_low(void)
        crashk_low_res.end   = low_base + low_size - 1;
        insert_resource(&iomem_resource, &crashk_low_res);
 #endif
+       return 0;
 }
 
 static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
@@ -611,6 +611,11 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
        }
        memblock_reserve(crash_base, crash_size);
 
+       if (crash_base >= (1ULL << 32) && reserve_crashkernel_low()) {
+               memblock_free(crash_base, crash_size);
+               return;
+       }
+
        printk(KERN_INFO "Reserving %ldMB of memory at %ldMB "
                        "for crashkernel (System RAM: %ldMB)\n",
                        (unsigned long)(crash_size >> 20),
@@ -620,9 +625,6 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
        crashk_res.start = crash_base;
        crashk_res.end   = crash_base + crash_size - 1;
        insert_resource(&iomem_resource, &crashk_res);
-
-       if (crash_base >= (1ULL<<32))
-               reserve_crashkernel_low();
 }
 #else
 static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
-- 
2.6.4

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