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Sourabh Jain
ea21eaea7f powerpc: Set crashkernel offset to mid of RMA region 
[ Upstream commit 7c5ed82b80 ]

On large config LPARs (having 192 and more cores), Linux fails to boot
due to insufficient memory in the first memblock. It is due to the
memory reservation for the crash kernel which starts at 128MB offset of
the first memblock. This memory reservation for the crash kernel doesn't
leave enough space in the first memblock to accommodate other essential
system resources.

The crash kernel start address was set to 128MB offset by default to
ensure that the crash kernel get some memory below the RMA region which
is used to be of size 256MB. But given that the RMA region size can be
512MB or more, setting the crash kernel offset to mid of RMA size will
leave enough space for the kernel to allocate memory for other system
resources.

Since the above crash kernel offset change is only applicable to the LPAR
platform, the LPAR feature detection is pushed before the crash kernel
reservation. The rest of LPAR specific initialization will still
be done during pseries_probe_fw_features as usual.

This patch is dependent on changes to paca allocation for boot CPU. It
expect boot CPU to discover 1T segment support which is introduced by
the patch posted here:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2022-January/239175.html

Reported-by: Abdul haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220204085601.107257-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
 2022-04-13 21:00:56 +02:00
Pingfan Liu
be5470e0c2 powerpc/crashkernel: Take "mem=" option into account 
'mem=" option is an easy way to put high pressure on memory during
some test. Hence after applying the memory limit, instead of total
mem, the actual usable memory should be considered when reserving mem
for crashkernel. Otherwise the boot up may experience OOM issue.

E.g. it would reserve 4G prior to the change and 512M afterward, if
passing
crashkernel="2G-4G:384M,4G-16G:512M,16G-64G:1G,64G-128G:2G,128G-:4G",
and mem=5G on a 256G machine.

This issue is powerpc specific because it puts higher priority on
fadump and kdump reservation than on "mem=". Referring the following
code:
    if (fadump_reserve_mem() == 0)
            reserve_crashkernel();
    ...
    /* Ensure that total memory size is page-aligned. */
    limit = ALIGN(memory_limit ?: memblock_phys_mem_size(), PAGE_SIZE);
    memblock_enforce_memory_limit(limit);

While on other arches, the effect of "mem=" takes a higher priority
and pass through memblock_phys_mem_size() before calling
reserve_crashkernel().

Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1585749644-4148-1-git-send-email-kernelfans@gmail.com
 2020-06-02 20:59:05 +10:00
Christophe Leroy
793b08e2ef powerpc/kexec: Move kexec files into a dedicated subdir. 
arch/powerpc/kernel/ contains 8 files dedicated to kexec.

Move them into a dedicated subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
[mpe: Move to a/p/kexec, drop the 'machine' naming and use 'core' instead]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/afbef97ec6a978574a5cf91a4441000e0a9da42a.1572351221.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
 2019-11-21 15:41:34 +11:00