Re: [PATCH] MIPS: reserve the memblock right after the kernel

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2020, Jinyang He wrote:

> Commit: d3ff93380232 (mips: Make sure kernel memory is in iomem)
> As I thought, this check is related to kdump. More directly, it is
> related to the "mem=" parameter. Kexec-tools provide a "mem=" parameter
> to limit the kernel location in kdump. But sometimes the memory may be not
> enough and this check gives a way to ensure the capture kernel can
> start rightly. Although "mem=" is not in kexec-tools now, I thought
> it is also useful if someone use "mem=" to do other things.

 I used to supply `mem=' by hand on many occasions across different MIPS 
systems and for various reasons over the last 20 years; surely before 
kexec was even thought of.  The option itself has been there in the MIPS 
port since I added it to Linux 2.4.0 back in Dec 2000.

  Maciej