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x86: move dma32_reserve_bootmem() after reserve_crashkernel()
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On a x86-64 machine (nothing special I could encounter) I had the problem that
crashkernel reservation with the usual "64M@16M" failed. While debugging that,
I encountered that dma32_reserve_bootmem() reserves a memory region which is in
that area.

Because dma32_reserve_bootmem() does not rely on a specific offset but
crashkernel does, it makes sense to move the dma32_reserve_bootmem()
reservation down a bit. I tested that patch and it works without problems. I
don't see any negative effects of that move, but maybe I oversaw something ...

While we strictly don't need that patch in 2.6.27 because we have the
automatic, dynamic offset detection, it makes sense to also include it here
because:

  - it's easier to get it in -stable then,
  - many people are still used to the 'crashkernel=...@16M' syntax,
  - not everybody may be using a reloatable kernel.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: yhlu.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Bernhard Walle authored and Ingo Molnar committed Jul 18, 2008
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13 changes: 9 additions & 4 deletions arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
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Expand Up @@ -792,10 +792,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)

initmem_init(0, max_pfn);

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
dma32_reserve_bootmem();
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP
/*
* Reserve low memory region for sleep support.
Expand All @@ -810,6 +806,15 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
#endif
reserve_crashkernel();

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
/*
* dma32_reserve_bootmem() allocates bootmem which may conflict
* with the crashkernel command line, so do that after
* reserve_crashkernel()
*/
dma32_reserve_bootmem();
#endif

reserve_ibft_region();

#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_CLOCK
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