Re: [mm] Crashkernel memory reservation fails with 2.6.24-rc8-mm1

From: Sachin P. Sant
Date: Tue Feb 05 2008 - 01:39:47 EST


Sachin P. Sant wrote:
Bernhard Walle wrote:
* Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> [2008-02-04 19:38]:
Bernahard, any idea who is the competitor here?
Hm ..., can you boot the kernel without crashkernel= and provide the
/proc/iomem?
Attached is the /proc/iomem output with and without crashkernel
parameter.

Adding debug gives this extra information.

hm, page 02a9d000 reserved twice.
crashkernel reservation failed - memory is in use

Will try to add more debug statements.
Hm . no problem with 2.6.24-mm1.

early res: 4 [9dc00-a0bff] EBDA
early res: 5 [8000-11fff] PGTABLE
Reserving 128MB of memory at 32MB for crashkernel (System RAM: 9088MB)
[ffffe20000000000-ffffe200001fffff] PMD ->ffff810001200000 on node 0

# cat /proc/iomem
......
008b8000-0099dc8b : Kernel bss
02000000-09ffffff : Crash kernel
c7fcae00-c7fcf7ff : ACPI Tables
.....

Thanks
-Sachin

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/