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authorBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>2019-05-24 15:38:10 +0800
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2019-06-28 07:14:59 +0200
commit8ff80fbe7e9870078b1cc3c2cdd8f3f223b333a9 (patch)
treeee44f3418b39e544da7b06dcbf90e6c09f07ad68 /arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
parentee338b9ee2822e65a85750da6129946c14962410 (diff)
x86/kdump/64: Restrict kdump kernel reservation to <64TB
Restrict kdump to only reserve crashkernel below 64TB. The reaons is that the kdump may jump from a 5-level paging mode to a 4-level paging mode kernel. If a 4-level paging mode kdump kernel is put above 64TB, then the kdump kernel cannot start. The 1st kernel reserves the kdump kernel region during bootup. At that point it is not known whether the kdump kernel has 5-level or 4-level paging support. To support both restrict the kdump kernel reservation to the lower 64TB address space to ensure that a 4-level paging mode kdump kernel can be loaded and successfully started. [ tglx: Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: hpa@zytor.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190524073810.24298-4-bhe@redhat.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/setup.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/setup.c15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 08a5f4a131f5..dcbdf54fb5c1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -453,15 +453,24 @@ static void __init memblock_x86_reserve_range_setup_data(void)
#define CRASH_ALIGN SZ_16M
/*
- * Keep the crash kernel below this limit. On 32 bits earlier kernels
- * would limit the kernel to the low 512 MiB due to mapping restrictions.
+ * Keep the crash kernel below this limit.
+ *
+ * On 32 bits earlier kernels would limit the kernel to the low 512 MiB
+ * due to mapping restrictions.
+ *
+ * On 64bit, kdump kernel need be restricted to be under 64TB, which is
+ * the upper limit of system RAM in 4-level paing mode. Since the kdump
+ * jumping could be from 5-level to 4-level, the jumping will fail if
+ * kernel is put above 64TB, and there's no way to detect the paging mode
+ * of the kernel which will be loaded for dumping during the 1st kernel
+ * bootup.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
# define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX SZ_512M
# define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX SZ_512M
#else
# define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX SZ_4G
-# define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX MAXMEM
+# define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX SZ_64T
#endif
static int __init reserve_crashkernel_low(void)