[tip:x86/mm] x86: Change crash kernel to reserve via reserve_early()

From: tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
Date: Mon Nov 23 2009 - 03:43:39 EST


Commit-ID: 44280733e71ad15377735b42d8538c109c94d7e3
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/44280733e71ad15377735b42d8538c109c94d7e3
Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:18:49 -0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:09:23 +0100

x86: Change crash kernel to reserve via reserve_early()

use find_e820_area()/reserve_early() instead.

-v2: address Eric's request, to restore original semantics.
will fail, if the provided address can not be used.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <4B09E2F9.7040403@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 57 ++++++++++++----------------------------------
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index d2043a0..e3eae59 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -487,42 +487,11 @@ static void __init reserve_early_setup_data(void)

#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC

-/**
- * Reserve @size bytes of crashkernel memory at any suitable offset.
- *
- * @size: Size of the crashkernel memory to reserve.
- * Returns the base address on success, and -1ULL on failure.
- */
-static
-unsigned long long __init find_and_reserve_crashkernel(unsigned long long size)
-{
- const unsigned long long alignment = 16<<20; /* 16M */
- unsigned long long start = 0LL;
-
- while (1) {
- int ret;
-
- start = find_e820_area(start, ULONG_MAX, size, alignment);
- if (start == -1ULL)
- return start;
-
- /* try to reserve it */
- ret = reserve_bootmem_generic(start, size, BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE);
- if (ret >= 0)
- return start;
-
- start += alignment;
- }
-}
-
static inline unsigned long long get_total_mem(void)
{
unsigned long long total;

- total = max_low_pfn - min_low_pfn;
-#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
- total += highend_pfn - highstart_pfn;
-#endif
+ total = max_pfn - min_low_pfn;

return total << PAGE_SHIFT;
}
@@ -542,21 +511,25 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)

/* 0 means: find the address automatically */
if (crash_base <= 0) {
- crash_base = find_and_reserve_crashkernel(crash_size);
+ const unsigned long long alignment = 16<<20; /* 16M */
+
+ crash_base = find_e820_area(alignment, ULONG_MAX, crash_size,
+ alignment);
if (crash_base == -1ULL) {
- pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed. "
- "No suitable area found.\n");
+ pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
return;
}
} else {
- ret = reserve_bootmem_generic(crash_base, crash_size,
- BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE);
- if (ret < 0) {
- pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - "
- "memory is in use\n");
+ unsigned long long start;
+
+ start = find_e820_area(crash_base, ULONG_MAX, crash_size,
+ 1<<20);
+ if (start != crash_base) {
+ pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - memory is in use.\n");
return;
}
}
+ reserve_early(crash_base, crash_base + crash_size, "CRASH KERNEL");

printk(KERN_INFO "Reserving %ldMB of memory at %ldMB "
"for crashkernel (System RAM: %ldMB)\n",
@@ -927,6 +900,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)

reserve_initrd();

+ reserve_crashkernel();
+
vsmp_init();

io_delay_init();
@@ -957,8 +932,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
*/
find_smp_config();

- reserve_crashkernel();
-
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
/*
* dma32_reserve_bootmem() allocates bootmem which may conflict
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