Xen devel - Jun 2007 - [patch] crashkernel allocation failure #2

Hi,

Reserving the crashkernel area fails on x86_64 machines with more than 
one GB of main memory.  The reason for this is that xen maps the 
complete physical memory.  For memory above 1G (which is covered by the 
initial boot mappings) additional page tables are allocated, which 
happed to be taken from the crashkernel area.  Bummer.

The attached patch fixes that by taking care that the boot allocater 
doesn''t give out pages from the crash kernel area.  It does also take 
care that the crash kernel area doesn''t overlap with the xen heap and 
moves crash kernel area it if needed.

A side effect of the second change is that you can specify just 
"crashkernel=64m" and have it moved to the right place just above the 
xen heap automagically.

please apply,

    Gerd


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On 22/6/07 10:46, "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> A side effect of the second change is that you can specify just
> "crashkernel=64m" and have it moved to the right place just above
the
> xen heap automagically.
Does this really work in practice (i.e., is the crashkernel relocatable)?

 -- Keir


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Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 22/6/07 10:46, "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>
wrote:
> 
>> A side effect of the second change is that you can specify just
>> "crashkernel=64m" and have it moved to the right place just
above the
>> xen heap automagically.
> 
> Does this really work in practice (i.e., is the crashkernel relocatable)?
Patches floating around for quite some time, i386 is mainline already. 
Not fully sure about x86_64, but I think it they are merged too.  So any 
recent mainline kernel as crash kernel should do (and a separate crash 
kernel isn''t needed too).

Also with the default xenheap size the crashkernel ends up at @16m, 
which is a common location for pre-relocation crash kernels, so it 
should work with older kernels just fine too.  Of course you still have 
the option to explicitly specify the location ...

cheers,
   Gerd

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