Ok, bisection ended up with: commit 722bc6b16771ed80871e1fd81c86d3627dda2ac8 Author: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> Date: Mon Mar 5 15:05:13 2012 -0800
x86/mm: Fix the size calculation of mapping tables For machines that enable PSE, the first 2/4M memory region still uses 4K pages, so needs more PTEs in this case, but find_early_table_space() doesn't count this. And I was able to make the kdump kernel run by reverting back the size calculations to what they were before. Actually, I am quite confident that this change is wrong for the 64bit case. The calling function has some comments about the first 2/4M regions but that is all encapsulated into #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32. With some debug output I get this on 64bit (without reverting 77e00000 would be added to extra space!): [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x00000000-0x77e87fff] [ 0.000000] [mem 0x00000000-0x77dfffff] page 2M [ 0.000000] [mem 0x77e00000-0x77e87fff] page 4k [ 0.000000] mr->end(77e00000)-mr->start(0)=77e00000 [ 0.000000] extra is 88000 [ 0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 0x77e87fff @ [mem 0x1fffc000-0x1fffffff] So I think there is a substantial amount of space wasted and in the kdump case this again brings us into trouble of fitting the initrd+unpacked+kernel. Theoretically the 32bit case should be ok, but I must admit I never tested that on bare metal. yet. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022561 Title: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1022561/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs