x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically

Chao said that kdump does does work well on his system on 3.8
without extra parameter, even iommu does not work with kdump.
And now have to append crashkernel_low=Y in first kernel to make
kdump work.

We have now modified crashkernel=X to allocate memory beyong 4G (if
available) and do not allocate low range for crashkernel if the user
does not specify that with crashkernel_low=Y.  This causes regression
if iommu is not enabled.  Without iommu, swiotlb needs to be setup in
first 4G and there is no low memory available to second kernel.

Set crashkernel_low automatically if the user does not specify that.

For system that does support IOMMU with kdump properly, user could
specify crashkernel_low=0 to save that 72M low ram.

-v3: add swiotlb_size() according to Konrad.
-v4: add comments what 8M is for according to hpa.
     also update more crashkernel_low= in kernel-parameters.txt
-v5: update changelog according to Vivek.
-v6: Change description about swiotlb referring according to HATAYAMA.

Reported-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Tested-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366089828-19692-2-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 4609e81dbc37..cff672da2486 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -596,9 +596,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         is selected automatically. Check
                         Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
 
-        crashkernel_low=size[KMG]
-                        [KNL, x86] parts under 4G.
-
         crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
                         [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
                         in the running system. The syntax of range is
@@ -606,6 +603,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
                         Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
 
+        crashkernel_low=size[KMG]
+                        [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel= is
+                        passed, kernel allocate physical memory region
+                        above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
+                        that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
+                        requires at least 64M+32K low memory.  Kernel would
+                        try to allocate 72M below 4G automatically.
+                        This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
+                        for second kernel instead.
+                        0: to disable low allocation.
+
         cs89x0_dma=     [HW,NET]
                         Format: <dma>