Re: [PATCH 0/3 v2] Fix kdump failures with crashkernel=high

[Baoquan He]

This patch is very helpful and necessary since several users complained
about the failure caused by not enough low mem. And the default value
256M is suitable since the testing data showed it's sufficient
now and should be save for a long time.
 
And it also makes sense to supress the warning from buddy allocation
failure which will call dump_stack in x86_swiotlb_alloc_coherent. Since
it tried buddy allocation several times before the final try of bounce
buffer allocation.

So ack the whole patch set.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> 

Hi Joerg,

Thanks for your effort on this issue. 

Could you please also update the cover letter or patch log to tell
how 256M comes out with the later test result? I think it is convincing
and helpful to understand.

Thanks
Baoquan

On 01/06/15 at 03:51pm, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> v1->v2:
> 
> * Updated comments based on feedback from Konrad
> * Added Acked-bys
> * Rebased to v3.19-rc3
> 
> Hi,
> 
> here is a patch-set to fix failed kdump kernel boots when
> the systems was booted with crashkernel=X,high. On those
> systems the kernel allocates only 72MiB of low-memory for
> DMA buffers, which showed to be too low on some systems.
> 
> The problem is that 64MiB of the low-memory is allocated by
> swiotlb, leaving 8MB for the page-allocator. But swiotlb
> tries to allocate DMA memory from the page-allocator first,
> which fails pretty fast in the boot sequence, causing
> warnings. This patch-set removes these warnings.
> 
> But even the 64MiB for swiotlb are eaten up on some systems,
> so that the default of low-memory allocated for the
> crash-kernel is increase from 72MB to 256MB (only changing
> the defaults, can still be overwritten by crashkernel=X,low).
> 
> This number comes from experiments on the affected systems,
> 128MiB low-memory was still not enough there, thus I set the
> value to 256MiB to fix the issues.
> 
> Any feedback appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Joerg
> 
> Joerg Roedel (3):
>   swiotlb: Warn on allocation failure in swiotlb_alloc_coherent
>   x86, swiotlb: Try coherent allocations with __GFP_NOWARN
>   x86, crash: Allocate enough low-mem when crashkernel=high
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c |  8 ++++++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c       |  5 ++++-
>  lib/swiotlb.c                 | 11 +++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
> Joerg Roedel (3):
>   swiotlb: Warn on allocation failure in swiotlb_alloc_coherent
>   x86, swiotlb: Try coherent allocations with __GFP_NOWARN
>   x86, crash: Allocate enough low-mem when crashkernel=high
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c |  8 ++++++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c       |  5 ++++-
>  lib/swiotlb.c                 | 11 +++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
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