On 07/12/2013 03:08 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:

I turned on the instrumentation in early_init_dt_scan_memory() and got
the following when jumping to the capture kernel:

memory scan node memory, reg size 16, data: 0 0 2 0,
- 0 , 200000000

That 0x200000000 matches the fact that I'm seeing 8GB of memory
available in the recovery kernel.

If I boot the original kernel with "crashkernel=224M@32M", should I
expect that only 224MB is marked as "linux,usable-memory" in the
recovery kernel?

I started looking at the kexec side of things, and I noticed something a bit odd. In most places dealing with the device tree in kexec it accepts either "memory" or "memory@" for the memory node name. In add_usable_mem_property() in arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c it seems to only accept "memory@".

Is this expected behaviour? It seems to be the same in current git versions of kexec-tools.

On my system I see "/proc/device-tree/memory".

If I modify add_usable_mem_property() to also accept "/memory" then my recovery kernel boots up with

physicalMemorySize            = 0x10000000

which is 256MB (which is still a bit odd since I specified 224MB for the crashkernel).

However, it then hits the BUG() call at the end of mark_bootmem() in mm/bootmem.c.

Chris

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