Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH 1/5] s390: make crashk_res resource a child of "System RAM"

From: David Hildenbrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 10:45:35 +0200

On 31.05.21 14:29, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <[email-masked]>
> 
> Commit 4e042af463f8 ("s390/kexec: fix crash on resize of reserved memory")
> added a comment that says "crash kernel resource should not be part of the
> System RAM resource" but never explained why. As it looks from the code in
> the kernel and in kexec there is no actual reason for that.

Are you sure?

Looking at kexec-tools: kexec/arch/s390/kexec-s390.c

get_memory_ranges_s390() wants "System RAM" and Crash kernel only with 
"with_crashk=1". Your patch would change that. "Crash kernel" would 
always be included if you make it a child of "System RAM".

Further, get_memory_ranges() and is_crashkernel_mem_reserved() look out 
for "Crash kernel\n" via parse_iomem_single().

However, parse_iomem_single() does not care about ranges that start with 
spaces IIRC via
   sscanf(line, "%llx-%llx : %n" ...

So once you make "Crash kernel" a child of "System RAM", kexec-tools 
would break if I'm not completely wrong.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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