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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c | 29 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c index 5015ca1275c..e9596cd0cda 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c @@ -239,6 +239,25 @@ __initcall(register_memory); #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC + +/* + * This function checks if the reserved crashkernel is allowed on the specific + * IA64 machine flavour. Machines without an IO TLB use swiotlb and require + * some memory below 4 GB (i.e. in 32 bit area), see the implementation of + * lib/swiotlb.c. The hpzx1 architecture has an IO TLB but cannot use that + * in kdump case. See the comment in sba_init() in sba_iommu.c. + * + * So, the only machvec that really supports loading the kdump kernel + * over 4 GB is "sn2". + */ +static int __init check_crashkernel_memory(unsigned long pbase, size_t size) +{ + if (ia64_platform_is("sn2") || ia64_platform_is("uv")) + return 1; + else + return pbase < (1UL << 32); +} + static void __init setup_crashkernel(unsigned long total, int *n) { unsigned long long base = 0, size = 0; @@ -252,6 +271,16 @@ static void __init setup_crashkernel(unsigned long total, int *n) base = kdump_find_rsvd_region(size, rsvd_region, *n); } + + if (!check_crashkernel_memory(base, size)) { + pr_warning("crashkernel: There would be kdump memory " + "at %ld GB but this is unusable because it " + "must\nbe below 4 GB. Change the memory " + "configuration of the machine.\n", + (unsigned long)(base >> 30)); + return; + } + if (base != ~0UL) { printk(KERN_INFO "Reserving %ldMB of memory at %ldMB " "for crashkernel (System RAM: %ldMB)\n", |