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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c index daf7c5650c18..c15f362a2516 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -541,21 +541,27 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void) } /* 0 means: find the address automatically */ - if (crash_base <= 0) { + if (!crash_base) { /* * Set CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX upper bound for crash memory, - * as old kexec-tools loads bzImage below that, unless - * "crashkernel=size[KMG],high" is specified. + * crashkernel=x,high reserves memory over 4G, also allocates + * 256M extra low memory for DMA buffers and swiotlb. + * But the extra memory is not required for all machines. + * So try low memory first and fall back to high memory + * unless "crashkernel=size[KMG],high" is specified. */ - crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN, - high ? CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX - : CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX, - crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN); + if (!high) + crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN, + CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX, + crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN); + if (!crash_base) + crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN, + CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX, + crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN); if (!crash_base) { pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n"); return; } - } else { unsigned long long start; |