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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86, crash: Allocate enough low-mem when crashkernel=high
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:02:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150123170243.GG22635@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420555874-11506-4-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org>

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 03:51:14PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
> 
> When the crashkernel is loaded above 4GiB in memory the
> first kernel only allocates 72MiB of low-memory for the DMA
> requirements of the second kernel. On systems with many
> devices this is not enough and causes device driver
> initialization errors and failed crash dumps. Set this
> default value to 256MiB to make sure there is enough memory

This upper limit of 256 looks arbitrary. Are we going to raise it a
couple of years from now if it becomes insufficient then?

It probably won't be easy but is there some more reliable way to
allocate enough memory for DMA on a say per-system basis or whatever...?
Probably not but let me ask it anyway.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
--

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-23 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-06 14:51 [PATCH 0/3 v2] Fix kdump failures with crashkernel=high Joerg Roedel
2015-01-06 14:51 ` [PATCH 1/3] swiotlb: Warn on allocation failure in swiotlb_alloc_coherent Joerg Roedel
2015-01-23 17:04   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-01-26 11:49     ` Joerg Roedel
2015-01-06 14:51 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86, swiotlb: Try coherent allocations with __GFP_NOWARN Joerg Roedel
2015-01-23 17:03   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-01-26  3:22     ` Baoquan He
2015-01-26 11:54       ` Joerg Roedel
2015-01-06 14:51 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86, crash: Allocate enough low-mem when crashkernel=high Joerg Roedel
2015-01-23  8:44   ` Baoquan He
2015-01-26 12:07     ` Joerg Roedel
2015-02-01  8:41       ` Baoquan He
2015-02-04 14:10         ` Joerg Roedel
2015-02-09 12:20           ` Joerg Roedel
2015-02-13 15:34             ` Baoquan He
2015-02-13 22:28               ` Joerg Roedel
2015-02-14 11:44                 ` Baoquan He
2015-01-23 17:02   ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-01-26 12:11     ` Joerg Roedel
2015-01-26 12:20       ` Borislav Petkov
2015-01-26 12:40         ` Joerg Roedel
2015-01-26 12:45           ` Borislav Petkov
2015-01-14 13:35 ` [PATCH 0/3 v2] Fix kdump failures with crashkernel=high Joerg Roedel
2015-01-19 19:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-14 10:58 ` Baoquan He
2015-02-14 16:11   ` Joerg Roedel
2015-06-02  8:54     ` Baoquan He
2015-06-02  9:08       ` Joerg Roedel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-06-05 10:29 [PATCH 0/3 v3] " Joerg Roedel
2015-06-05 10:30 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86, crash: Allocate enough low-mem when crashkernel=high Joerg Roedel
2014-11-28 11:29 [PATCH 0/3] Fix kdump failures with crashkernel=high Joerg Roedel
2014-11-28 11:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86, crash: Allocate enough low-mem when crashkernel=high Joerg Roedel

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