[PATCH] powerpc/fadump: reset dump area size variable if memblock reserve fails

Sourabh Jain sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com
Mon Jul 3 16:55:09 AEST 2023


Hello Michael,

Do you have any feedback or comments regarding this patch?

Thanks,
Sourabh

On 08/06/23 14:52, Sourabh Jain wrote:
> If the memory reservation process (memblock_reserve) fails to reserve
> the memory, the reserve dump variable retains the dump area size.
> Consequently, the size of the dump area calculated for reservation
> is displayed in /sys/kernel/fadump/mem_reserved.
>
> To resolve this issue, the reserve dump area size variable is set to 0
> if the memblock_reserve fails to reserve memory.
>
> Fixes: 8255da95e545 ("powerpc/fadump: release all the memory above boot memory size")
> Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> index ea0a073abd96..a8f2c3b2fa1e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> @@ -641,6 +641,7 @@ int __init fadump_reserve_mem(void)
>   			goto error_out;
>   
>   		if (memblock_reserve(base, size)) {
> +			fw_dump.reserve_dump_area_size = 0;
>   			pr_err("Failed to reserve memory!\n");
>   			goto error_out;
>   		}


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