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authorHari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>2022-03-22 14:46:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-03-22 15:57:09 -0700
commitee97347fe058d02035f354d59a5aa5aa6e1be4cc (patch)
tree1f2a7fc91a01f172d75d94eaca6ad9acd5cad0e2 /include/linux/sched
parent27d121d0ec6d604d0147c5b579e4181b688a2d64 (diff)
powerpc/fadump: opt out from freeing pages on cma activation failure
With commit a4e92ce8e4c8 ("powerpc/fadump: Reservationless firmware assisted dump"), Linux kernel's Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA) based reservation was introduced in fadump. That change was aimed at using CMA to let applications utilize the memory reserved for fadump while blocking it from being used for kernel pages. The assumption was, even if CMA activation fails for whatever reason, the memory still remains reserved to avoid it from being used for kernel pages. But commit 072355c1cf2d ("mm/cma: expose all pages to the buddy if activation of an area fails") breaks this assumption as it started exposing all pages to buddy allocator on CMA activation failure. It led to warning messages like below while running crash-utility on vmcore of a kernel having above two commits: crash: seek error: kernel virtual address: <from reserved region> To fix this problem, opt out from exposing pages to buddy allocator on CMA activation failure for fadump reserved memory. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220117075246.36072-3-hbathini@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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