[PATCH] powerpc/kdump: handle crashkernel memory reservation failure

Hari Bathini hbathini at linux.ibm.com
Thu Jun 28 15:19:56 AEST 2018


Memory reservation for crashkernel could fail if there are holes around
kdump kernel offset (128M). Fail gracefully in such cases and print an
error message.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 936c7e2..6181442 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -188,7 +188,12 @@ void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
 			(unsigned long)(crashk_res.start >> 20),
 			(unsigned long)(memblock_phys_mem_size() >> 20));
 
-	memblock_reserve(crashk_res.start, crash_size);
+	if (!memblock_is_region_memory(crashk_res.start, crash_size) ||
+	    memblock_reserve(crashk_res.start, crash_size)) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to reserve memory for crashkernel!\n");
+		crashk_res.start = crashk_res.end = 0;
+		return;
+	}
 }
 
 int overlaps_crashkernel(unsigned long start, unsigned long size)



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