x86, kdump: Retore crashkernel= to allocate under 896M

Vivek found old kexec-tools does not work new kernel anymore.

So change back crashkernel= back to old behavoir, and add crashkernel_high=
to let user decide if buffer could be above 4G, and also new kexec-tools will
be needed.

-v2: let crashkernel=X override crashkernel_high=
    update description about _high will be ignored by crashkernel=X
-v3: update description about kernel-parameters.txt according to Vivek.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366089828-19692-4-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Yinghai Lu
2013-04-15 22:23:47 -07:00
committed by H. Peter Anvin
parent c729de8fce
commit 55a20ee780
4 changed files with 41 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -603,9 +603,16 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
crashkernel_high=size[KMG]
[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
available.
It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
crashkernel_low=size[KMG]
[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel= is
passed, kernel allocate physical memory region
[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel_high= is
passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
requires at least 64M+32K low memory. Kernel would
@@ -613,6 +620,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
for second kernel instead.
0: to disable low allocation.
It will be ignored when crashkernel_high=X is not used
or memory reserved is below 4G.
cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
Format: <dma>