----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nishanth Aravamudan" <[email protected]>
> To: "Michael Ellerman" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Hari Bathini" <[email protected]>, "Gavin Shan" 
> <[email protected]>, "Alexey Kardashevskiy"
> <[email protected]>, "Ben Herrenschmidt" <[email protected]>, "Paul 
> Mackerras" <[email protected]>, "David Gibson"
> <[email protected]>, "Wei Yang" <[email protected]>, 
> [email protected], "Jan Stancek"
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, 4 September, 2015 8:22:52 PM
> Subject: [PATCH v2] powerpc/powernv/pci-ioda: fix kdump with non-power-of-2 
> crashkernel=
> 
> The 32-bit TCE table initialization relies on the DMA window having a
> size equal to a power of 2 (and checks for it explicitly). But
> crashkernel= has no constraint that requires a power-of-2 be specified.
> This causes the kdump kernel to fail to boot as none of the PCI devices
> (including the disk controller) are successfully initialized.
> 
> After this change, the PCI devices successfully set up the 32-bit TCE
> table and kdump succeeds.
> 
> Fixes: aca6913f5551 ("powerpc/powernv/ioda2: Introduce helpers to allocate
> TCE pages")
> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected] # 4.2

Tested-by: Jan Stancek <[email protected]>

I can confirm, that this patch along with 
  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/513229/
applied on top of 4.2 is fixing kdump for me on Power S812L.
(ppc64le bare metal, crashkernel=1024M)

Regards,
Jan

> 
> ---
> 
> Michael, I kept this as a follow-on patch to my previous one. If you'd
> rather I made a v3 of that patch with the two fixes combined, I can
> resend. Also, I fixed up the context on my end to be u64, but not sure
> if that will match your tree (next doesn't have my prior patch applied
> yet, that I can see).
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
> b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
> index f1c74c28e564..d5e635f2c3aa 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
> @@ -2078,12 +2078,18 @@ static long pnv_pci_ioda2_setup_default_config(struct
> pnv_ioda_pe *pe)
>       struct iommu_table *tbl = NULL;
>       long rc;
>       /*
> +      * crashkernel= specifies the kdump kernel's maximum memory at
> +      * some offset and there is no guaranteed the result is a power
> +      * of 2, which will cause errors later.
> +      */
> +     const u64 max_memory = __rounddown_pow_of_two(memory_hotplug_max());
> +     /*
>        * In memory constrained environments, e.g. kdump kernel, the
>        * DMA window can be larger than available memory, which will
>        * cause errors later.
>        */
>       const u64 window_size =
> -             min((u64)pe->table_group.tce32_size, memory_hotplug_max());
> +             min((u64)pe->table_group.tce32_size, max_memory);
>  
>       rc = pnv_pci_ioda2_create_table(&pe->table_group, 0,
>                       iommu_page_shift_4k,
> 
> 
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